Pam Carlson offered...
>
>Talking with Delecti Scott, I suggested that someone start a central log
>of small, homemade scenarios that folks could pick up and run.
>Organizing them by culture or area would be additionally spiffy. Frex,
>I would volunteer my "White Buffalo" scenario for newbie Praxian PC's,
>which I ran and posted about last year.
>
I heartily concur! IMHO the best ways to introduce new people to
Glorantha are scenarios and fiction. Once people get hooked they will
seek out the obscure, the esoteric and the roots of digest debate, but
to start off, they are, presumably looking for something they can use in
their game, directly (a scenario) or indirectly (fiction which gives
tone and colour). For example, the cameo "A Loaf of Bread..." in Tales
15 is a good "teaching" scenario for Yelmalion Morality, or the old
"Borderlands" as an introduction to the Grantlands and the tribes of
Prax.
As for fiction, look at the tie in's for any of the other popular
Roleplaying Games (World of Darkness, Shadowrun, Battletech, AD&D, etc)
While these are not all great works of art (some would struggle to rate
as highly as great piles of crap!) the sheer volume of them suggests
theey must sell, and, I wwould guess that they help sell the
games/backgrounds too. One of the things that influenced me towards
Glorantha was the "Griselda" stories in White Dwarf (Is there a reward
or punishment for mentioning both AD&D and WD in the same posting?). I
was also impressed by the "encounters" with the various cults provided
as the sidebar fiction in Cults of Prax/Cults of Terror.
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