>> Wasn't the Imther Pack refused by Chaosium? Why would >> Issaries, Inc publish what Chaosium vetoed? Or did I >> get the whole story wrong? IIRC, an Editorial of TotRM >> said the Imther Pack was the property of Avalon Hill >> and had been "de-gloranthized".
> That was my understanding to. However, Imther was speci-
> fically mentioned, and Greg said he was keen to see it
> re-done for the new game IIRC. Strange, I admit.
I think the "veto" was on (a) Avalon Hill producing a new (and damn good) Gloranthan product, and (b) Chaosium/Greg putting enough time into editing Harald's work to make sure it was so, back when the business relationship between AH and Chaosium was very poor and when the Stratelibri deal still seemed to be on. If that's so, "ImtherPak" would have been an entirely innocent casualty of the squabbles.
Poorly handled by Chaosium, of course, but what's news there? (Greg is *extremely* bad at letting people down gently: cf. RQ4!)
This is my uninformed opinion, and may well be wrong: I haven't talked about it to any of the people involved.
> I'd like to know if [the Sky Dome] _doesn't_ look like
> a (finite or otherwise) hemisphere, what on Glorantha
> _does_ it look like?
Our Sky?
> I even remember seeing people converting characters from
> AD&D to RQ and discarding all that sort of stuff for POW
> storage crystals and what have you.
And the other way round. Back before White Dwarf was a minis catalogue, issue #50 included gaming stats for their popular characters: The White Dwarf, Thrud the Barbarian, Griselda and others. These were usually presented for both AD&D and RQ (the two premier systems of the day -- snif.); the D&D stats had long screeds of magic items (not in evidence in any of the source materials), while the RQ ones looked like RQ characters: stats, a few weird spells, personal oddities or special rules that made them into *individuals*, and that's about it. Much more aesthetically attractive: I was *proud* when I read that issue!
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Nick
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