Personally I prefer to set my campaigns in a less Gregged regions. That's also why I am not into beginning yet another Orlanthi campaign set into Dragon Pass. But remember; whatever you do, your campaign is bound to be different from any kind of of norm.
I have yet to run a published scenario where my players would have done what the scenario expects them to do. If you would do the unlikely thing of, say, running exactly the scenarios the Greg has run, PCs do differently anyway because they are played by different players and make different decisions. And all this diverges your campaign from any kind of official campaign.
> Pent seems like a good place to transport the AH Vikings box set.
WHAT !?!?!? However, the others have already set the same thing I wanted to say and probably better.
And if you really want AD&D Drows, I do not see the problem. But IMO they would fit better in Dorastor with other weird Elves; black-skinned aldryami with ties to giant spiders.
Nick Brooke, however, answered that
> I think the advice in the Genertela Book is wrong, wrong, wrong (if
> it meant "don't let them interact with PCs"): what's the point of
> playing in Glorantha if you can't meet up with the Greatest Living
> Gloranthans?=7F
Right; I have let my players meet Androgenus (character probably thrice Gregged by now but I like the idea). And even if most PCs do not end up being, for example, Jareel's bodyguards (because many players like to play somewhat "anarchistic" campaign where their characters go around) they are sure to witness their actions or see them or even meet them when seeking employment.
> Not doing something for fear of imminent publication is rather
> self-defeating.
Right; Besides, nowadays I am less concerned of being Gregged than being Brooked, in fact.
Richard whoever
> The Giant Cradle [is] an event which I would definately want my
> adventurers involved in. I don't understand why that scenario was
> not re-published...
for which Lady Jane commented
>I thought this until I actually got to read it. It's a linear-plot
>Lunar-bash. Very tough, but requiring zero PC initiative.
I agree for different reasons. Cradle is an all-combat scen with lots of troops statistics, mass combat, and zero importance for PC actions. And I am not fond of all-combat scens anyway
Daniel McCluskey
> Where is it that people get the idea that it is somehow "natural" not =
to
> want to kill your neighbors? There certainly is NO real-world preceden=
t for
> Long-Term peaceful coexistance of substantially different peoples.
I agree most of what McCluskey says and this comment is not of Glorantha but my own philosophy; IRW, at the very least we should *try*!
And in fact, the amount of hates between Americans you mentioned does confirm what an average Finn thinks about Americans; that an average "jenkki" is a member of NRA, Ku Klux Klan and Christian Radical Militia and wants to shoot everybody who looks different.
I am not quite sure what you refer to when you talk
about Onslaught, but there are other kind of examples of
what GURPS calls combat monsters.
Frusetta
> If there's
>no cultural problems, who in their right mind wouldn't play a Green Elf?
>I'm sure some of it must be game balance
There's a friend of mine who at least played a green elf for many years with a mixed band of sorcerer, Light Son and a shaman in someone else's campaign. They used Maurer's heroquest rules. In one point the elf was powerful enough to make things grow at the touch, create teleport gates with war trees and play a laser cannon with his palm. They destroyed one Castle of Lead and a one lunar sorcerer school. (Ouch)
Ralph Plowman
> How do you all pronounce Genertela?
> Does it have a hard or soft G.
When I am speaking Finnish, I am using hard G. When I am speaking English, I am using soft G. This follows the line of Cyprus (English) and Kypros (Finnish), the name of the same island pronounced differently in different languages.
Reputedly our Italian brethen also pronounce the names of the gods differently from the English pronounciation. Finnish version are likely to even more weird.
That's all
Death to Argrath
Vesa "Aku" Lehtinen.
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