> Solar cultures are male-dominated and bureaucracy-ridden and
> bound by convention and prudery. I already live in a world like
> that, and have no desire to have a clone of it creep into my
> roleplaying.
Why not have the Yelmies as villainous foils for your Orlanthi and Troll
heroes, eh? Besides, the best adventures for Yelmie (inc. Sun Dome Templa=
r
and Lunar Officer) PCs are ones where they hit a situation where the worl=
d
they're used to can't help them: like Gaumata's Vision or "Tarsh War".
Yelmie scenarios IMHO show them just how *unprepared* a life of inherited=
position, public-school towel-flicking and sexual repression make you for=
life on the Gloranthan frontier; they're about the human character emergi=
ng
from within this stifling cocoon of repression, convention and prudery.
Besides, they make such great caricatures (PC and NPC both).
> Where in Glorantha do they have potatoes?
I ate a Carmanian potato once, courtesy of Finula McCaul, at the RQCon 1 "Eat at Geo's" event. (Though I ate a bee later the same meal, which was rather distracting). She had a persuasive argument for why Carmania was a=
good place to grow them, which I cannot now recollect. But I was convince=
d
at the time.
The biggest and best source for Skyfall Lake is the "Troll Gods" backgrou=
nd
booklet of Jonstown Compendium extracts, including diaries kept by schola=
rs
exploring the lake, and theories as to where the weird stuff is coming
from. If you've only got the "Trollpak" stuff, you're missing this
motherlode of material. Not a scenario, but it's got more hooks than a
mutant tarantula.
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Nick
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