Brian Tickler:
>Many, many players (myself included) play RQ2 to this day,
>using RQ3 materials only as far as they can be adapted for
>use in the older system. Now that GtG is on the way, that
>situation will only get worse, as RQ2 and RQ3 players that
>refuse to switch are forced to adapt GtG materials to fit
>their games.
Surely you're not suggesting Chaosium should produce special RQ2 and RQ3 versions for obdurate players of these superceded editions? What planet do you live on?
Brian:
>I merely trying to clarify the situation for the RQ/Glorantha
>community as a whole.
Daniel Fahey:
>>: And have achieved just the opposite.
Brian:
>Well, nobody is sorrier about that than I am, but I was expecting a
>little less reactionary posting and a little more actual discussion of
>the *hypothetical* questions I posted.
Chaosium have produced a set of cheerfully reasonable guidelines which allow anyone to publish their own Gloranthan material and, thankfully, that's what just about everyone who wants to is happily doing.
The only thing Brian's endless speculation, hypothetical arguments and looking for hidden agendas is likely to do is send Chaosium back to the drawing board. Who could blame them if any new set of guidelines are more proscriptive and less conducive to fan publishing than we enjoy currently?
Brian, I can't believe this is what you really want.
Cheers
MOB PS Simon Bray - Glorious Conflagration of Fida'Is: *fabulous* - give us more, more!!
[XXIX. 21-016] Part of the rites of mastery for followers of the Centipede style of Kralori martial arts requires the initiate to be locked in a furnished room overnight. During his short imprisonment the initiate must search and locate small pebbles which have been hidden within the room. The number of pebbles hidden remain unknown to the initiate until after the test. How successful the initiate is depends on how many pebbles he finds. This establishes where in the hierarchy he will be placed. He cannot change from that place until he takes the Pebble test again. An initiate doing the test for the first time usually finds four or five small stones. Although unconfirmed, reports state that Shao Yao Lin, the current master of masters, found seventy-two pebbles on his first attempt. Failure to find any pebbles or less pebbles than the last attempt leads to death of the testee. This has caused many of the disciples of this form to remain initiates or low-ranking masters although their technical skills are very high.
End of The Glorantha Digest V5 #36
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