Weapon availability & more

From: Nils Weinander <niwe_at_ppvku.ericsson.se>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 16:39:59 +0200


Sandy:
>Agreed that RQ makes composite bows way too easy to get.

Which made me think of crossbows. How easy are they to come by in Glorantha? The people I game with include a couple of inveterate min-maxers who always choose heavy crossbows as their missile weapon. I see this as culturally inappropriate but meet little understanding. The minmaxers prefer to think like modern people and easily adopt any useful feature, no matter how outrageous the mix.


Sandy again:
>The Mongols had stirrups, the Praxians have stirrups (except
>maybe the Impala Riders, who probably don't need them), the Pentans
>have stirrups, and the Six-Legged Empire certainly had stirrups.

Do the unicorn riders use stirrups? I think of them as not even using saddles, but I have never seen any data on it.


Sandy for the third time:
>A PAMALTELAN ENCOUNTER (some apologies to C.A. Smith)

Lovely story. Who is C.A. Smith?

>I walked through Zamokil, where live the Blue people with
>their polished stone knives and their cruel ways.

As I understand it the Veldang had an urban civilization before Time in their Artmali Empire, but what's their society like in the third age?


/Nils W


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