OTOH, number of humans that could climb a mile or so up handily placed mountains, quite large. I don't believe that you'll on a regular, quotidian basis find people with access to magic that's orders of magnitude _more_ useful for mapping purposes, who have nothing better to do with their Sacred Magics than impersonate the Ordinance Survey.
Mystic vision I see as rather a different case. Yes, you should be able to use it for such things, but I doubt it's 100% reliable by any manner or means either.
> > Glorantha with Lozengal Positioning Satellites (dwarf
> >ones aside) is getting too far away from the idea of "ancient world
> >as it really _should_ have been" and into "cod fantasy".
> I will certainly accept the argument in regards to MGF. But that's like
> arguing "orange" is prettier than "blue" - it's purely subjective.
I don't think I just made an "it's MGF" type argument, which I generally find lazy at best, and annoying at worst. Sure you can say it's "just a preference", but hardly an arbitrary one.
> What's a "cod fantasy"? I hesitate to visualize such thing.
That's the general idea.
Slainte,
Alex.
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