While I realize that Martin Laurie will now label me as a "whining maggot" and I may also end up "choking on my own vomitous outpourings" (why do I feel like he would make a fantastic drill sergeant?), I have no trouble agreeing with the spirit of what Robert Wolfe was saying when he thought it would be beneficial if we gloranthaphiles would game more. To me, it's a matter of balance. A lot of great additions to the game have come from campaigns. If you asked Greg and Sandy, they would confirm that many of the things they have published (especially for RQ2) came from their campaigns, especially the Chaosium in-house one. This does not mean that we need to abandon our scholarly approach to many of the topics. I wish I actually played RQ/Glorantha more. As for some logical basis for supporting Objectivism... There is room for both approaches (Sub/Obj) in Glorantha. We don't need for one or the other to reign supreme. They can and have coexisted quite peacefully for many years. Unfortunately, the main producers of "official" objective material (Chaosium and Avalon Hill) have largely dried up. We, the consumers, have been hesitant, for the most part, to fill the void ourselves. This does not mean that we haven't had any great things come out, likes Tales, Codex, RQA, Drastic, etc., but our output doesn't replace a game company's support of a product. A time for some hard choices... Avalon Hill is not going to be producing any more Runequest, although they will use the name "Runequest" for a brand new RPG which has nothing to do with Glorantha. Chaosium is trying to produce more Gloranthan source material, but they aren't putting any resources at present into creating a new rules system for Gloranthan roleplaying. To me, the rules aren't that important. What I want is fairly concise and well organized game-usable material on Glorantha. Most of the info I want does need a small portion of the rules as a backdrop, but that amount isn't overwhelming. Most of it would be cult related, like the number of points for a spell and its background information. My advice to myself has been to get writing. If I get stuck, I ask a few other gloranthaphiles to help. When I have enough for an article I will submit it to Tales or Tradetalk. If they reject it I'll probably put it on someone's web page or the daily. As a gross oversimplification. If only 20% of the (roughly) 500 people who read/subscribe to this digest wrote one page of material every other month, we could publish a MONTHLY magazine the size of Tales or Tradetalk. ------------------------------
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