>Personally I want to see a game that
>1) has relatively minimalist basic rules.
>2) has really good stable base rules.
>3) has a few really innovative ideas on how to cope with the big issues
>4) is a lot of fun
The best (most enjoyable and captivating) Gloranthan game I've played in was run by a friend (as a regular game over a five year period) using his own completely home grown system - it had a slightly different history and geography to traditional Glorantha but was close enough to maintain the feel of the world.
It was good because he started with runic creation / discovery, and built everything up from that in logical layers. The gods were very much defined by their runic associations. Heroes were able to do heroic things (on the mundane plane) based on their understanding and mastery of runes. Hero-questing was a logical extension of this with the quest being centered around gaining new knowledge of a rune (a rune quest in fact!) or around a strong echo of runic interaction. Magic was more limited than in traditional Glorantha, but was also based on runic correspondances.
The rules were fairly simple, and once understood could be applied to new situations easily since the fundamentals were well designed. There were no scaling problems, and heroes were heroes within the system, rather than having to have extra rules additions tacked on to explain why Hero X can do something others can't.
One of the things I most liked about it as a player was that as our characters came to understand more about the way the world worked, so did we as players. Since the entirety of creation had been logically and consistantly built upon the runic base, it was possible to philosophise about the meaning and use of the runes and extrapolate from what was known.
I guess in summary, I'd like to see a rules system that:
rick cronan rick_at_darkwave.org.uk url: http://greebo.darkwave.org.uk/~rick FUNNY QUOTE NUMBER FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
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