Those two lines are favorites of mine...however, if I recall correctly, don't these lines come from the (paraphrase) "Cult's Role in Society" section (i.e. the section where how the cult is perceived *by outsiders* is placed?)?
I place importance on the third word of the first line and on the humorous intent of the second line, which seems to me more of a punch-line than a factual statement...
I've actually argued over the intent of these same lines before, years ago, outside the Digest...
> When did I ever do this? I agree, of course, that far more PCs and NPCs
> follow Storm Bull than Waha in most published material and campaigns.
> Remember when I mentioned the number of hackers, assassins and spies turning
> up in Cyberpunk games, or professors, gangsters and detectives in Cthulhu?
> Same reason: we see distorted numbers because of the genre.
You're right, I just had to drag that second line out of you (sorry), so that it's crystal clear to everyone what the real question is (and nobody can answer this one yet): will HW create or find its own genre and cadre of players, or will the existing conceptional constructs just mutate it to fit themselves as they've done to many RPGs? The answer to that question will tell you whether Waha will ever catch up to Stormbull's popularity...
> Of course this has *absolutely* no effect on the "actual" number of
> Lawspeakers, Swords, Khans and Bullies in Glorantha. (The clan lawspeakers
> are still there, even in a Storm Bull campaign. Nobody ever talks to them,
> is all). It just means that players are paying attention to different
> aspects of the world.
Ok, ok. But as you know, my response to that would be: "How can you have an 'actual' number of anything in something that doesn't 'actually' exist? The only important number is how many interact with PCs...".
I'm gathering by the shorter postings on all sides that critical mass on this thread is past us now...praise be.
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