Just as an observation in the midst of the current spate of rampant wringing of hands and so on... but most of the roleplaying mailing lists I am on or have been on (or at least the unmoderated ones, to exclude Shannons excellent Chaosium digest) seem to involve rather large quantities of nitpicking, pedantry, argueing over obscure details, and so forth. At least on the Glorantha digest most of our arguments are about Glorantha.
Exbibit A - posted in the last day to the Ars-Magica mailing list by a
gentleman called Steve Saunders
>>Having just done a fair tad of research on medieval dog breeds, I'd have
>>...
>>But for the record, curly-haired water dogs of the general "poodle" type
>>are well-known, and in fact predate the Christian presence north of the Alps.
Has it occurred to anyone that the sort of discussion we have here might just be the natural evolution of a roleplaying mailing list?
Cheers
David
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