> In his TOTRM article on PDP David Dunham said that he had difficulty
>keeping to timetable using epic-scale.
>
> I've been running a PDP variant most weeks for almost two months and
>I've only gotten to the second year. The players are wondering when
>there will be a Winter Phase and to be honest so am I! Can anyone help me
>out?
At some point, the GM just has to say, "time passes." If you're using PenDragon Pass merely as a simplified rule system, you could have experience rolls a month after an adventure. (If you haven't checked the Web page <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/pdp.html> in the last month, I've added a couple articles, including one with this suggestion.)
I try to keep a lot of stuff more abstract than I would with other game systems. Yes, this ignores the chance to roleplay out stuff like marriage negotiations between clans, but it also means the game can progress and we can have other roleplaying incidents.
BTW, Andrew, how do "Glorantha: The Game" traits differ from Pendragon traits? (Note: Greg didn't mention this game at all at RQ-Con, at least not in my hearing.)
Peter Metcalfe answered me
>>I just can't see
>>taking your newborn to a trickster to have its birth signs read.
>
>How about the Eurmali sneaks in and curses the newborn babe?
Short answer: geases are not curses (at least not those derived from birth signs). Long answer: I think I have to write an essay on geases (<http://www.pensee.com/dunham/ralios/geas.html> needs more explanation).
Loren Miller responded to Andrew Behan
>you left out the most important facet of Carmanian personality,
>Balance. How do you attain it? Is it a trait pairing, or the
>expression of a person whose passions are as close to the halfway
>mark as possible, or is it simply high scores in (to use your trait
>names) Cruel, Fecund, Generous, Vengeful, and Proud?
Sandy Petersen once suggested to me that the Red Goddess idea of Balance would be to have all traits at 10. Having high scores in your religion's virtues means you're virtuous, according to the Orlanthi scheme of things, and I suspect the Carmanians would do things a bit different. I haven't been following everything, but perhaps a Carmanian knight would be interested in Virtue, while a wizard (or Fazikian or Chirurgeon or whatever term you use) would be interested in Balance.
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