Ash Munday:
> 3. <paraphrased>What benefit does your game get from a Melnibonean sorcerer
> summoning a Gorp rather than "generic blobby demon thing"?</paraphrased>
>
> It's specific, it's fun, it's familiar. You can have "Genuine Part of
> Porcharngo" or "Made In Glorantha" stamped on it.
>
> Likewise, when a Gloranthan summoning goes wrong, whatever you throw at the
> magician can be written off as a Krajki of some sort. What does the Storm
> Voice do when he asks for a sylph, buggers it up and gets the engine fan for
> a Renault Laguna instead which wirs menacingly whenever he goes near it?
Lovely. Reminds me of my favorite adolescent fantasy series ... Diane
Duane ... "so you want to be a wizard". The absolute best combination of
pagan polytheism and technology I've ever read.
This could help explain Leonardo the Scientist. And it would certainly
give local Mostali something dire to do.
Al Harrison
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