Cults & Archives from Shannon Appel on 1995-08-30 (Glorantha Digest Vol 02)

From: Shannon Appel <appel_at_erzo.ORG>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:17:56 -0700

On Cults:
>If you wanted to go digging, you could find the Cacodemon Cult in
>RQ2's "Griffin Mountain" (along with Foundchild the Hunter, equivalent
>to Trollpak's "Hunter"), and Mostal in an early issue of "White Wolf"
>magazine (numbered somewhere around the teens), but there's no need to
>go to all the trouble. There's an old Different Worlds mag (in the
>twenties) which includes a lot of good material on Mostali: not a
>formal cult writeup, but arguably this stuff would be more useful in
>playing and running dwarfs

To be precise, the Mostal writeup is in White Wolf #15 and the issue of Different Worlds concerning the Mostali is #24. Cacodemon is also in Different Worlds #2, and Foundchild in #7 -- these may be a bit cheaper to get ahold of then Griffin Mountain. Check out the magazine indexes on ftp.csua.berkeley.edu in the /pub/rpg-index directory, as they contains full information on Different Worlds, White Wolf and lots of other magazines.

>From: yfcw29_at_castle.ed.ac.uk
>Subject: Do we need a forum for online RQ articles?
>
>I recently resubscribed to this list, and am again impressed by the
>quality and utility of much of what appears here. I know the dailys
>are archived, and I have downloaded some of the ones I have missed.
>The problem is it is hard work diging through dozens of digests to
>pull out a handfull of what are, in effect, full blown articles. For
>example - cult writeups, Sandy's Doraddi stories, scenarios, etc.
>
>Contrast this with the situation on the Nephilim digest. Chat and
>discussions go on the list, but full blown articles go to the
>Chaosium Digest. That way they are fully indexed and archived
>as articles, and are a lot easier to find.
>
>Something like this for RQ would be incredibly usefull. I know
>Shannon has kept the Chaosium Digest RQ free, probably because
>he does not want it dominated by a single system.
>
>Does anyone else feel the same way?

For one, I feel precisely the same way. In fact, it was something I was considering last year. My only question would be: "Is this a niche being adequately filled by Web pages currently?" I know there is a lot of info scattered over WWW currently, but don't know if it's really an archival of the full-length non-discussion articles from the Gloranthan Digest, as Simon suggests.

If there is genuinelly a need for such (and Loren is in support of it, as he's the one currently running this show), I have some ideas for how to implement it, and would even be willing to edit it. But, I'll wait to see other opinions before jumping in.

Shannon

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