> The analogy does play right into the point that the
>>first and third posters were trying to make (one, with which, I do not
>>agree). Unless, of course, you think the action in Yugoslavia is really
>>NATO trying to find more fields to grow 500 lb. and 2000 lb. munitions trees
>>that can be harvested later.
>
>Tell me you've never heard of mushroom clouds ;)
>
>>Subject: Re: Entropy
>
>K. Nellist:
>I am still of the opinion that people eaten by the Crimson Bat (an possibly
>other chaos monsters) suffer from this True Death/Annihilation rather than
>just Death where the soul (or in some cases souls) carries on. Viewed from a
>mystic liberation point of view this may not be as bad as all that. To an
>Orlanthi like myself this is pretty scary.
>
>Here's my take on death vs annihilation. The reason people in Glorantha aren't
>so worried about death as we are is because they know there's a next life for
>them. What makes things like the Crimson Bat so scary is the fact that they
>obliterate things. I like to think of this type of annihilation as the Soviet
>purge of non-people - airbrushing them out of history as it were. Therefore
>someone who is eaten by the Bat, destroyed by Chaos etc ceases to have all
>reference of existence - which includes attributed works and even, after a
>while, all memory of them; they literally fade from existence both in a
>concrete and ephemeral way. That, to me, is total annihilation.
>
>GOD:
>I seem to recal God proved his existance to Daniel (although I can't remeber
>the exact story - keeping a fleece dry of dew possibly) and to Saul/St Paul
>on the road to Damascus.
>
>He hasn't done so well in recent years, however.
>
>Subject: d'Roolz.
>
>danny bourne:
>> I'd say that if HW sells 5,000+ copies, then it's been a decent success
>
>I'd say if it sells less, it's up the River Faeces, and rather oarless.
>
>I think you'd be surprised just as to how few copies your average RPG book
>sells - it's certainly true in the word of wargames; 5,000 copies is a seller!
>
>GURPS is rules lite? Je ne crois pas! We're talking bastard son of
>RQ and Champions, here... (with a venerable old grandfather in TFT).
>
>Err, by rules lite I meant that there's a single core of rules which you can
>adapt to any of the gazillions of GURPS books there are, rather than reams
>upon reams of specific rules for each world book.
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