Stormin' women

From: D. Pearton <pearton_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:20:45 -0700 (PDT)


I must admit to being a little bewildered by the vehemence of this topic and the misconceptions about what people have said. Pam eloquently put forward the case for the increased depth of women's roles and opportunities in the "new and improved Glorantha" (tm) so I'll try be brief.

As far as my reading of HW goes women cannot be "Stormvoices" - i.e. they cannot fulfill the social and religious role of a priest of Orlanth in his thunderous aspect. In precicely the same way that men cannot become high priestesses of Maran Gor. How this came to be interpreted as "women can't have access to storm powers" I have no idea. Making a pc that has storm powers in HW is as trivial as saying "X was caught out in a violent storm on Orlanth's high holy day and survived by becomming one with the storm, since that day she has been able to call on the powers of the storm." Or something a little less verbose...

At least you could if you didn't have a proto-facist philosopher as a GM...
(Sorry Jeff ;)

See Ya all,
Yak
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Dave Pearton
pearton_at_u.washington.edu
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