Rick Meints comments: ==
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>Subject: The future of Glorantha =
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>While I realize that Martin Laurie will now label me as a =
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>"whining maggot" and I may also end up "choking on my own =
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>vomitous outpourings"
I couldn't label you any such thing for the simple reason that I have a copy of your MIG and know that you put your money where your mouth is and produce some ball beltingly good stuff. The only people I lable whining maggots are those who appear out of the blue and complain about a lack of game useable material =
instead of writing it themselves and letting us see their works!
>As for some logical basis for supporting Objectivism... =
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>There is room for both approaches (Sub/Obj) in Glorantha. =
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>We don't need for one or the other to reign supreme. They =
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>can and have coexisted quite peacefully for many years. =
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I agree, and would agree to disagree but when people say my =
opinion is wrong without actually coming up with a cogent argument to say why, then I get irked. However, if they just said, "I don't have an argument but I just like it like that." Then I'd leave em alone.
>My advice to myself has been to get writing. If I get stuck, I ask =
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>a few other gloranthaphiles to help. When I have enough for an article =
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>I will submit it to Tales or Tradetalk. If they reject it I'll probably =
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>put it on someone's web page or the daily. =
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Now you see, this is sound, sane, logical advice yet I guarantee that
a few months or even weeks from now we'll get someone else who totally
ignores this advice and will whine on about how unproductive and how litt=
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us Digesters are. Just you watch.
>As a gross oversimplification. If only 20% of the (roughly) 500 people w=
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>read/subscribe to this digest wrote one page of material every other
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>we could publish a MONTHLY magazine the size of Tales or Tradetalk. =
Exactly. Its not that hard to do. However the problem we have is =
the old Douglas Adams "Somebody Elses Problem" field. Sure =
people want game stuff but they can't be bothered to do it themselves, =
want to be led by the hand through their games with a nice suppliment =
telling their layers how to use the latrine. In Glorantha this isn't goi= ng
to happen so why don't they do something about it? =
Oh, I don't buy the old "I've a busy life excuse" as you can _always_ mak=
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the time if you want to but it takes will and it takes commitment and mos=
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people don't want to. =
Martin Laurie
End of Glorantha Digest V4 #529
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