I really wonder if since we have experts there is a lack of
creativity or people are less eager to publish their own stuff. I
could be wrong (having taken a big holiday from Glorantha (some would
even say from thinking) my opinioin may be out of date anyway) but
did we not have had experts before HW ? Well, certainly I had "mine".
If I wanted to know something about the Lunars, I asked Nick, I
wanted something about Heortland, there was and is Joerg and if it
was some other question usually Peter Metcalfe was glad to answer.
(Sorry for all those unmentioned here). And I was more than happy to
take those expert's words for truth, not without adapting that truth
to MY Glorantha. And I do not see why people would stop publishing
there unofficial fan stuff, just because there is some expert on that
topic anyway. If there was an expert for the Telmori, I still would
certainly keep all my pages even if most of them were out of date and
contradicted heavily. This might quite well happen to the map of all
the packs... but do I care ?
I have always seen it as a unique chance that the experts of the
world we love so much are here amoung us free to debate with. I am
not that much learned with other rpg worlds, but here I can tell Nick
to insert *this* into the Lunar religion, and if it's very cool and
all agree I might get it even. Now how cool is this ?
I personally see Glorantha as the most democratic of rpg worlds ever seen (and yes, I know more that this one *l*).
And certainly I am happy that we have experts who think more on things then others do. At least they make handy scapegoats. :-)
P.S.: Experts vs. fans ? I always thought experts were fans as well...
bye, Thomas
"Dreams are the best things reality has to offer..."
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