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>Subject: The Glorantha Digest V7 #78
>Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:45:07 -0700
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>The Glorantha Digest Sunday, September 12 1999 Volume 07 : Number 078
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>TABLE OF CONTENTS
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> Tim Ellis RPGA - Not quite as off topic as you think?
> MOB Indomitable Wotsie
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>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 19:54:40 +0100
>From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_timellis.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: RPGA - Not quite as off topic as you think?
>
>Eric suggested
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> >until the RPGA starts running Hero Wars or Gloranthan games this is not
> >relevant to this list.
>
>which is sort-of true, but bear in mind that this was RPGA-UK, which (a)
>organises Gencon-UK, the largest UK convention[1] - and there was
>certainly some Hero Wars being run there, as other threads demonstrate
>and (b) wasn't as fanatically TSR/WoTC as we are lead to believe the
>American organisation is. I was pleasantly suprised to see support for
>other companies games in the issue of Polyhedron they were giving away
>at the Dudley Bug Ball[2]
>
>That said this isn't the right place to debate this issue[3] - Quite a
>lot has been said, by people with many different points of view on
>uk.games.roleplay if anyone is interested....
>
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>[1] I've never actually been myself, so I can't comment on the quality
>
>[2] A one day convention run by one of the companies who produce C&S[4],
>but none-the-less supported by the RPGA-UK
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>[3] or the Hasboro take-over of WotC
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>[4] I think technically it's run by the Dudley & Black Country RPG
>Society
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