Delecti_at_aol.com (PBM):
thanks, sounds like my decision to keep it low-combat was a good move. I'm
also keeping it very "low-rules": I'll do all the number-crunching, just
tell them the results. Using Pendragon traits should sort out a lot of
problems too, I hope. (But this isn't the Rules list, so I'll leave it at
that!) Player interaction probably won't be enormous: I was thinking of this
as a chance to run sages, healers, traders, spies, and so on: the characters
who are better off without a lot of "if it moves, hit it" buddies tagging along.
Michael Raaterova:
I was thinking of Gloranthan Lore as something one gets by reading a lot of
stuff that is now out of print: also as the ability to understand GROY and
similar publications. Obscure, yes, at least to me: trivia, probably not.
Your suggestions on Loremasters make good sense to me: thanks. I'd forgotten the possibility of summoning the spirit back. Wouldn't that only work for the chap's descendants, though? I'm assuming there's a fair degree of ancestor-worship in any clan, so that's where they'd get the spell from: would a non-descendant be able to call the Loremaster back? Or is it compulsory for a Loremaster to have children, just in case...?
The Vinga-Elmal marriage also looks like fun: though there seem to be a few
(non-official) myths about how Vinga has to argue with Elmal (in charge of
defending the stead) to be accepted as a warrior: if he's her sub-husband at
the time it would add a new twist to the discussions! Still "at the time" is
a meaningless statement, pre-dawn.
I _love_ the idea of Elma(le), the wife of Barntar. Quite how I'd fit it into my Glorantha I don't know, but I'm going to try: it's too good to lose.
Nick Effingham:
thanks, I'll go and look up Hippoi. It does sound like a better link than
Vinga: less contradictions with existing material. Of course, both could be
true in different places.
(And I've changed the sig! :))
David Ingram (PBM):
nice idea, thanks. This is the sort of thing I'd expect the campaign to go
towards once the PCs were fairly high-level. Friends they make in their
teenage adventures could be very important in twenty or so game-years. (And
yes, I do expect to get that far: the Pendragon method of skipping the
boring years between adventures should see to that).
Sandy Petersen:
yes, thanks, clearly I was seeing literacy/illiteracy as too much of a black
and white affair (storing knowledge by memorisation rather than in books =\=
illiteracy). And another person suggesting calling back the ghost to ask it
questions: is this a more "normal" procedure than I'd been thinking? Must
make murder trials easy to solve, if all you have to do is call back the
victim and ask them! Or am I missing something?
Simon Phipp (PBM): thanks, sounds like the sort of thing I'm heading towards.
Martin Crim: makes generally helpful and supportive comments: thanks. Sorry, no spaces at the moment for new players: I'm slow enough with the existing bunch, but I'll add you to the waiting list.
A new thought arises from the comments about Elmale (f) and non-cross-dressing Light Sons: how many more of those Yelmalian geases and rules are reactions to something the Orlanthi do? Can we, for instance, explain the "never wash" one this way? Or, indeed, any other way? Are Orlanthi ritually obliged to wash at certain times? Is anyone else? I seem to remember Yelornans are obliged to wear clean clothes: is this connected?
Oh, and I'd always assumed that Yelmalian geases are derived from Humakti geases (Monrogh trying to invent a warrior cult from a non-combatant one), but lost the ability to pick a chosen geas on the way? Any thoughts? Yelm doesn't have the geas system, does he?
Finally, a new question: yet more KoS trivia, I'm afraid. There are a few mentions of Tarkalor's mother Soaratta, second wife of Saronil, known as "the Reddest" and "the Runaway woman". She sounds like a probable Vingan and a fascinating character. Is anything more known about her?
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