Um, I find your statement somewhat puzzling...you say that you've seen these same comments for *years*...are all these people wrong? Maybe they're just mistaken about the impressions they've gotten... :)
> There are a number of things that realy get up the noses of a lot of
> people on the digest, especialy old timers.
>
> The first is people jumping streight on to the digest and posting their
> own opinions, much of which directly contradicts published sources, and
> either implying that it's the way Glorantha is, or that it's is the way
> it should be if it isn't.
Ah, I see. Here's a few things that get into the noses of us "old timers" who are not posting to the digest on a regular basis:
> Second most irritating is people who insist (usualy by implication) that
> the RuneQuest X (insert favourite version here) rules are realy
> Glorantha, and all the cultural waffle and history everyone else talks
> about is just irrelevent fluff.
Perhaps you're inferring what people are not implying?
> Third most iritating is people who say that all this fan publication
> business, and the decade of unpaid work people have put into Glorantha,
> is realy all a waste of time. Nobody with their feet on the ground
> should even bother buying any of this amateur stuff. What we realy need
> is _yet_another_ warmed over reprint of a 15 year old suplement for a
> dead out of date game system, to rejuvenate the hobby.
Ditto from above.
> The digest is part of the small but living, breathing _Gloranthan_
> community as it exists today. That community has hopes and fears, and if
> threatened it will defend itself.
What you may see as a threat others may see as a rescue attempt.
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 10:50:49 -0700
> From: Shannon Appel <appel_at_chaosium.com>
> Subject: Re: The Glorantha Digest V6 #32
>
> >> You've been very direly misinformed if you've gotten that impression.
> >> I've now seen parts of the first four Issaries manuscripts: An
> >> Introduction to Glorantha, Hero Wars, Sartar, and The Orlanthi
> >> Player's Guide. A very agressive publication schedule has been set out
> >> for the first two years, and the first score or so books have been
> >> planned. I'd say the future of Glorantha, as laid out by Issaries,
> >> looks brighter than it has at just about any other time in the last 20
> >> years. No hyperbole there either. This is going to be real cool.
> >
> >Ok, that sounds wonderful, but how exactly is what you're saying any
> >different than Chaosium touting Dorastor and Masters of Luck and Death
> >way back when? What is this fundamental change in Chaosium that is going
> >to make the results different this time around? Sorry to be harsh, but
> >(revisionist history on the Digest aside), Chaosium has proved to be
> >just as poor at producing timely RQ/Glorantha product as AH ever was...
>
> Incorrect.
>
> Chaosium published RuneQuest from 1978 to 1983, a total of 6
> years. During that time period they came out with 23 distinct books +
> 6 reprints/new-editions of some of those books + somewhere around 10
> issues of a supporting magazine (RQ support started in 5 or 6 of
> WF). That ranges between 4 and 6.5 products a year, depending on how
> you count it, a very respectable number.
I'd be interested to see the full list if you've got it...
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