During the RQ Con DU Lore auction, Gre mentioned Sartar, and invited people to guess whose heroquest path he was on ie which God he was trying to imitate, and I correctly guessed 'Issaries'. He did get involved in combat of a sort sometimes, though, generally winning by using transformation spells.
> Where are the women? Most Gloranthan societies, like their equivalent
> I would look forward to tales told at the other fireplace, or in the
> other hall!
Jim, get yourself an Entekosiad when you can. While not all like that, it certainly contains more of the female side than in any other source
I do agree that the non-violent heroquest paths do need to be explored more than they have been in a lot of the heroquest ideas thrown about so far. I think the real measure of a set of HQ rules is really do they cope equally well with that sort of thing. I would like to more about the sort of challenges found on those quests, and more about the myths. I was rather hoping that John Hughes was going to cover some of that stuff in Tales - look at Seeker or Healer rather than Warrior heroquesting.
And to the Tales crew - when I talked about the 'farmboys' style game, I meant to imply neither that there was anything wrong at all with that sort of game, or that that was all you are interested in. All I meant was you seem to particularly enjoy that sort of game. Actually, Tom Hobdays current campaign (some of you may have met him at RQCon DU) is very much a 'farmboys' game, and seems to be fabulous (and Tom also runs a terrific high powered A D&D game as well, for that matter), one of the best sounding RQ campaigns I have heard of. Its just not my particular style to GM, though I do enjoy playing in that sort of game.
Cheers David ------------------------------
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