Errr... Tolkien's elves were not pointy-eared, more like Aryan ideals or something and Tolkien did not use infravision, either. That would be Gygaxisms, more like it, as Allen Wallace points out:
>I think it is rude and innapropriate to trash on Tolkein's work because of
>the pathetic way a game designer who did a bad and unauthorized job of
>portraying them.
IMO Tolkien did a very good job indeed. It is the majority of the modern fantasy "writers" (maybe 75% of them) who have no original ideas to speak of and plagiarize him - Gygax including. Although he reputedly borrowed the "magic system" from Jack Vance. I have been told that Guy Gavriel Kay complained once that most fantasy writers do not bother study folklore - they read Lord of the Rings and rewrite it. I agree.
I stop ranting here because this is not a proper place for that...
Another thing; Oliver D. Bernuetz's bit on pregnancy should be useful no matter what background you use. Thought I admit that we males cannot really know zilch about pregnancy...
Couple of odd bits. About 4 years ago I was given a copy of an article called "Trade inGenertela" supposedly salvaged from one of the RQ-related digests. It was rather extensively and useful. Unfortunately, I have lost the name of the original writer. Any information ?
Same source claimed me that there is, somewhere, an extensive text about the supposed abilities of trollkin values. So far this has eluded me. Does it exists (still I have my suspicisions).
It seems I still cannot access archives...
Vesa "Aku" Lehtinen
End of The Glorantha Digest V5 #419
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