Well, what's-his-name, the guy who stormed off the list last week, made the remark about ret-conning.
>Complaints about retconning Orlanth so that he no
>longer gives Storm powers to females, either of his
>own or of associated cults, yes, but that's very different.
Fair enough. Jeff Richards and Pam Carlson have addressed the issue far more eleoquently than I could have.
Everytime the mind of Stafford moves to flesh out another part of Glorantha, someones sacred cows get run over. The details I am reading second-hand about this alleged ret-con are rather minor compared to, say, the infamous "Why I Hate Mostali" Different Worlds article.
>I don't know what your specific interests are, but suppose
>Officialdom came out with something that made Indrodar Greydog
>Impossible - he's only in a fanzine, so obviously that wouldn't
>matter, would it? Would it?
As it happens, I've never heard of Indrodar Greydog. I am the most fanatic Gloranthaphile in my gaming group, However, I lack the patience (or the motivation) to track down every fan publication out there. Stafford "blessing" material in a fan publication does not mean that Chaosium/Issaries has any obligation to maintain continuity with it.
>Anything that contradicts something as basic as this, or, far
>worse, contradicts the main Orlanth write-up available to us
>(River of Cradles), had better have a very good reason for it.
It is pretty sad IMO, if Praxian suppliments contain the definitive write-up on Orlanth.
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