Actually, saying that the 2-page map is well fleshed out and that Prax is the most detailed area available doesn't exactly equate to me concentrating solely in that one area. I've GM'ed and played in just about every area of Glorantha with the exception of the East Isles. My point is that if one is looking to promote Glorantha's strengths, then further developing the well-known areas would probably be better then developing whole new campaign packs for areas far from Dragon Pass.
> <<At least Issaries recognizes that they need to push their strengths first,
> then expand later. The key of course is to publish new material on these
> areas and segregate it from the obilgatory old material, so that the current
> fan base isn't paging though a 3rd round of reprinted and rehashed stuff
> trying to separate the new material from the old... >>
>
> As far as I can tell, very little of the Issaries material will have
> been printed before, or at least not in RQ supplements - although parts of KoS
> would, I suspect, be reprinted in the Sartar/Orlanthi material. OTOH, the
> downside from Brian's point of view is that what's being described first is
> Sartar, followed by the Holy Country, Tarsh and the Lunar Empire (not
> necessarily in that order) - Prax and the Zola Fel are being left out for the
> forseeable future and don't appear on the list of 30 plus books intended for
> publication. This is, I gather, specifically because doing those areas would
> necessitate re-hashing large amounts of old material rather than being able to
> write much new - these areas are pretty well described already. If this really
> is the *only* area you're interested in, you may as well stick with the fairly
> extensive information you already have, because nothing new is likely for a
> long time AFAIK...
Bah...there's lots of areas of Prax that have little or no material on them:
Tourney Altar - Biturian Varosh visit, not much else
Pairing Stone - Biturian Varosh visit, not much else
Ex - Vague reference in Wyrm's Footnotes, not much else
- -..
Need I continue? I guess some of these areas may be covered in Drastic
Resolutions, but in any case, I consider background material to only be a
piece of the pie...scenarios are a must to add that "lived-in" flavor to a
locale.
Only the Zola Fel river valley is well and truely explored (although even there I manage to run an entire campaign that has lots of new material but doesn't step on the toes of any of the published material, with the possible exception of the duck-based scenario in Borderlands...since I ignore ducks in my game, this wasn't a big loss from my POV).
> <<what's going on with the "Observers"? When I looked on the web page for an
> Email link to use to become an Observer (last month, I think), I could only
> find instructions on how to handle donations, so I ended up Emailing the only
> link I could dig up on the page (Greg's Email, I believe). I've heard nothing
> back up to this
> point, though. Perhaps I've been declined for past considerations ;).>>
>
> Well, presumably there must be a method to become an Observer, or 150
> people wouldn't have already done so :-)
Yes, thanks for clarifying that. The question is, if Issaries has received my request, are they planning to let me know that I'm on the list at some point?
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