Re: various

From: Jane Williams <janewill_at_mail.nildram.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 20:55:39 +0000


Curses:
> Alex Ferguson noted....
> > iii) Be prepared to piss off Greg (have you _read_ some
> > of the curses on his manuscripts?).
and V.S Greene asked:
> Are these "curses" in the sense of profanity and related angry words,
> or "curses" in the sense of actual malevolent spells? We are talking about a
> practicing shaman, after all. Should we be getting ready for wraiths in the
> night? :)

The second, but generally very Glorantha-specific. Unless Greg can invoke Gloranthan deities in THIS world, I think you're safe. Your PC, on the other hand....

Female trolls:
> * What _is_ the term for a female troll? Uzess? Uzette? Uzatrix?Uzi?
You're all missing the point here. In troll language, the word for female troll is "troll". They're the default gender. Now, what's the word for "male troll"?

> From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_interzone.ucc.ie>
> Subject: Steve Martin don't need no Rule #2.
> S. Martin:
> > Subject? We don't need no stinkin' subject.
> See Rule #2. Come to that, see rules #1 and #3, tous le monde.
Would you care to tell me what subject I should have used for this post? "Curses, female trolls, subject titles, awkward players, Gloranthan fiction etc."? Isn't there a length limit somwhere?

> Are college campaigns more prone to this kind of thing, I wonder? Throwing
> a couple engineers, a planetary scientist, a historian, a linguist and a
> theater major into a room together and exposing them to a weird universe
> has always seemed to provoke lots of questions in my experience. "You see
> a Duck." "Do Ducks dance?" "What do their houses look like?" "What does
> the marsh look like?" "What language do they speak?" "Do they do
> interpretive dance?" "What does it look like?" "Do they all talk like
> Donald Duck?"

I get this from my group, too, and we're all well beyond college. The college group used to TELL me how things worked, in detail. They didn't ask. Mine you, a group of us did come up with a really good archery system for Aftermath. OK, so it needed a mainframe to run....

Gloranthan fiction:
> From: <Klyfix_at_aol.com>
> Also, I've read _King of Sartar_ and if the writing is compareable in
> those three books I'm most assuredly not going to pay $25 for them. KoS is
> interesting, but not (IMHO) a terribly great read.
Sorry, but I did attempt to read GRoY and FS, after reading KoS. They're far less readable, and from the DragonPass/Sartar POV, almost totally irrelevant. Can't comment on Ento-wotsit, as Wizard's Attic haven't delivered it yet, but I don't hold out much hope. I think to get anything like a scenario out of any of them, you need to be a very very good GM and have a lot of free time. Faster to invent your own.

> I can't see something
> like _King of Sartar_ being of interest to any but folk who are already
> Gloranthaphiles...

I hate to break this to you, but KoS was what got me hooked on Glorantha.

Broos:
Almost forgot: people were asking about breeding broo a while back. Read "Lords of Terror", if it's still in print. All the detail you could ever want, and the rest. It left me feeling very sorry for female broo.

Jane Williams                        jane_at_williams.nildram.co.uk
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