Praxian Desk Khans.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:44:06 +0100 (BST)


Brian Tickler (at some length, no subject line, etc):
> Plenty, but in any case, there are 2 kinds of "people" in Glorantha, the
> game world...PCs/NPCs, and "other people". If we define NPC to mean anyone
> that PCs have significant interaction with or knowledge of, then we see that
> these "other people" therefore have no significant interaction with PCs.

And to attempt to return to the original topic: you're claiming that there are few Waha (or Eiritha?) 'NPCs' in all/most/your Prax campaigns? That would seem to be odd, to me, as I tried to point out in an earlier message, blithely ignored of course in the titanic struggle of Nick and Brian trying to blow semantic holes in each others' posts. (Not unlike Brian's Eternal Post Myth Cycle, indeed.) To wit, even if all the PCs are Storm Bull initiates, don't they have to interact with 'normal' society at some point? If not, then either the lads have been camping out around the Devil's Marsh for too long, or the game play doesn't really much reflect Prax as the game materials describe it. (Which is to be to be read as haughtily declaring such a game 'invalid', which I would not presume to do.)

Of course, I do agree that published material culd do a _better_ job of both explaining 'normal' Praxian social interaction, and facilitating actually playing it that way (to whatever degree suits one personal taste). I do think HW will help in this, since even if there's no Prax books until 2040, then there's sure to be some sort of fannish treatment that applies HW game concepts to The Plaines.

Tell you what, though, these multi-K digest-busters certainly keep the issue-number count ticking over! Sort of the electronic equivalent of a strong nasal discongestant -- to name but one of the more polite bodily analogies that string to mind. I'm not sure why, but the digest seems to be configured in such a way that it can take well over 24 hours to echo a posting, if things are 'slow'. Maybe I'm on the mailing list equivalent of a 5-second delay, or something. ;-) (Thank you, Mark Slackmayer...)

Slainte,
Alex.


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