> I'm honestly not certain I'd want to risk
> Frightening the Children with a RQ, PDP, or HW playtest game at this
> point, though.
FWIW, my visiting 13-year old nephew was in one of my HW playtest sessions. He seemed to immediately grasp the spirit of the rules, and said that he might want to run this after school when he got home.
Pete Newallis asked
> Anybody got some good stuff worked out on this for steads, bloodlines in
> a clan?
Enclosure 2 has a complete (Aggari) clan, listing everyone in each household. Everyone. I'm amazed at the work David Millians did.
Joerg Baumgartner mentioned
> the example of British English as spoken and
> as written. Somehow, there are lots of silent constructions in words
> like brought (spoken like "broat") or knight ("nite").
An unusual* technological artifact, brought about by the rise of the printing press, and the invention of the dictionary (i.e. the notion of standardized spelling). Once you had "brought" and "knife" in print, they were resistant to change in a way that Fronelan texts probably wouldn't be - -- copyists would be free to correct the spelling of the previous scribe. However, English the language (i.e. the spoken language) continued to change, and underwent the Great Vowel Shift among others. But the spelling had been locked in.
Benedict Adamson proposed that "cross-dressing" is a Dara Happan euphemism for even worse activities. I like this. I'd also note that some of this may be a reaction to foreigners -- during the cooperative First Age, the trouser (or even short kilt) wearing Orlanthi probably mocked the toga-wearing Dara Happans as wearing dresses like women. The proud, touchy Dara Happans immediately promulgated laws against dressing like a woman, in order to calm their sensitivities.
On an unrelated issue, I think Babeester Gor women dress like men, and Vingan women dress as a cross (practical pants, stylish overdress). As for the newly discovered Nandan, possibly these men still wear pants, but shave all facial hair.
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