Nick Brooke writes that 1968 was a good year. Same for me, it was the
year I got married!
The old Tales poll had the oldest reader as being born in December 1941.
I was born in October that year, which definitely puts me among the
oldest group of gamers, even in RQ. 1941 was an even more exciting
year than 1968, from all that I have heard.
However, despite my age, I have helped keep the RQ audience young by
contributing my sons and their friends to the game.
June is a heavy political month in NYC this year, and I have not been
able to keep up with the 3-4 digests a day (not to mention dozens of
other messages) that have been arriving "over the transom." I have saved
them all and will catch up in July. The Gim Gim stories will resume also.
As for the various discussions on the line, I came to Glorantha through
Runequest. My gaming experience stretches all the way back to the Fifties,
playing Gettysburg with rulers and Fletcher Pratt's naval game on the
floor!
I like the world, as I do Tekumel and Middle-Earth. I'm afraid that,
without being tied to actual play, discussions on this line have the
danger of drifting off into "fantasy" or esoterica, rather like late
studies of mysticism.
I think I am a "Hidden Variable Objectivist" about Glorantha, as I am
about Earth. While there is an underlying "reality," there is no
reason to expect humans (or GMs) to know what it is. That's why we
always roll for DI -- the GM has no more reason to know what "the Gods"
want than anyone else does.
However, the pure "subjectivist" position is off-putting, seeming to
verge on solipsism. Glorantha is a socially-constructed reality, else
why are we talking at all about it? So it isn't much confort to say
that "your Glorantha may differ," whether speaking of us or Gloranthans!
Jim Chapin