Avalon Hill's Demise
I think Richard Erwin is too sanguine about the fall of
Avalon Hill. He says "New wargamers are as likely to get started
with other company's games." _What_ other companies? SPI is dead.
TSR has ceased producing board wargames. The Fresno Gaming Group is
dead. It's been eons since Games Workshop produced anything
approaching a historical sim. GDW has stopped producing many of its
wargame line. It looks grim for the board wargamers. Of course, this
is the Glorantha digest, but still.
Cheiron
>why no mention of Humaktis in Halgrim's Saga?
- Ralzakark's nurturing of the Humakt cult was, at the
time, not known to Greg Stafford (I think -- it was already written
down somewhere -- had been for many years, but I'm not sure Greg had
read it).
- Halgrim's Saga was devoted to explicating the specific
chaos cults named in Cults of Terror. Humakt was not one of those
cults, so the saga didn't waste time on them.
- The Storm Bulls may not have been aware that certain of
the broos were worshiping "Humakt", but just assumed that the
sword-wielders were another clan -- probably funded by the damn
Lunars or something.
- None of the Humakti broo may have been encountered in
all of Halgrim's Saga anyway. Most of the Humakti are loyal to
Ralzakark, and he makes no appearance in Halgrim's Saga. The entity
known as "Ralzakark" in the Saga is just another powerful broo.
_Everything_ bad coming out of Dorastor is blamed on Ralzakark, but
it just ain't so. This is not to say that the events described in
Halgrim's Saga are not a major Dorastor plot, and a dire threat to
all the nations around. It's just that they aren't centered on
Ralzakark, but some other leader, with different allies and plans.