Martin has nothing to fear from me, I have no hostility.
Also, for clarity, I should point out that I have had dinner
with
the president (Gerald Ford), and I didn't clip my toenails.
I'm also not taking Martin's declarative statements as
anything other
than his opinion, so I'm not trying to be cute, or wearing.
I'm very grateful that he succinctly posted his 4 levels of
Glorantha.
I somehow missed this from the earlier posts.
1. Rules reality, 2. Literary reality, 3. Glorantha as it
appears
to its inhabitants, and 4. Glorantha as it really is.
I'm very sure that about 99% of us don't think that any of
the
Gloranthans in our games go around saying, "funny thing that
Duck
Gulch only exists because some cheesy writer named Rick
Meints stuck
it on the map at the last minute to satisfy his juvenile
sense of
humor while he was editing the map in Photoshop for issue 14
of Tales."
They probably say that it's so named because it was notable
for being
a temporary haven near a seasonally dry riverbed where a
Duck skeleton
was found a couple of centuries ago.
Lastly, I'm very non-threatened by the fact that Martin is
working at
the level 3, which he SAYS is for "better" roleplaying
groups. I'll
point out that Martin might want to be a little more careful
when he
chooses phrases like that. It could be easily seen as
condescending,
pretentious, inflammatory, rude, elitist, etc. I guess my
gaming group
will just have to take pride in the fact that we're "worse"
than Martin's.
Lastly, I don't see any reason why Gloranthans can't refer
to Swenstown
as Swenstown. They can very easily have a serious, socially
defined and
culturally accurate reason that it is so named. I'm sure
that it would
have absolutely nothing to do with Anders Swenston, whom
they would never
have, or could have, heard of anyway. I don't see why it
can't fit in with
towns with names like Casino town or Bad Deal, either.
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