re - Digest 228, I have to applaud Nick Brooke's comments on the names
issue....... frankly, revisionism would be one of the surest ways of killing
Glorantha.... for me, even Hero Wars is going to have to be pretty darn
tooting to get me to keep buying it, after the initial book.. since, to be
honest, my budget is limited these days, and I buy these things as
supplements for my own pleasure, since Role Playing is virtually dead in the
UK, it seems (certainly is amongst the younger set..... the Games club at my
local Uni is nearly extinct. kept alive by a group of 30 - somethings, and
Magic players....) In my experience, most gamers don't really care if a town
is called "fredsplace" or "Freydiscarlsvig".. except that the weird names
get mispronounced, half forgotten etc.....
Enough ranting!
The Sword of Humakt is not a "usable" treasure, by the way.. it merely
increases the numbers you kill if you select the "kill as many as you can"
option on the combat screens. Anyway. am off to see what the Earthshakers do
in combat! ;-))
Tim Minas
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #229