<< But what really concerns me is I wonder if what I perceive as a big flaw, and a major departure from my view of Glorantha (ie every village tough guy is a superhumanly powerful WWW) may actually be intentional on Gregs part (every villages toughest guy is able to incarnate heroes, chop through stone, and perform similar outrageous things). Any comments? >>
If indeed WWW people capable of doing all the things you list were
common enough to be found in every village, then naturally I'd agree that
that would be pretty much destroying the setting, and I certainly wouldn't be
interested in gaming in a world like that. *But* the guidelines say that WWW
= tribal level hero, and while I realise this is an approximation not a rule
set in stone, if it means anything at all, it means that such people are not
'found in every village' - indeed there's probably not more than two dozen of
them in the whole of Sartar, which sounds about right to me.
Eric:
<<WWW ain't superhuman, not even close.>>
Well, even ignoring whatever additional magical abilities/hero feats
such a person might get, they are invulnerable in a fight even with a
'typical' rune lord - and if that isn't considered superhuman I shudder to
think what is! I can only imagine we're using different definitions of the
word - for instance, it obviously isn't 'godlike', so perhaps that's what you
mean.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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