Now, let's turn to the old stomping grounds: the "Plaines of Prax". What is the description of Pavis-Outside-the-Walls worth without any description of Pavis *County* ? What are Pavis Inside-Out, Sun County (Thank you so much, MOB, your book is still being *used* by my players & I after all those years), Raus'domain & Corflu worth with scarcely any information on Prax & Genert's Wastes ? Today, of course, we have TotRM's Praxian Special Part Un & Deux (Thank you so much, RMM, all of you... ) & Drastic: Prax which finally gave us a description, if only a short one, of all those juicy places of note for Wahasake !!! (Or was it in Tales, that they were described ? Nevermind, it doesn't really matter, thanks guys.) Let's also not forget Codex & RQ Adventures issue No. 3 on The Block (Thank you, Mike Dawson & John Castellucci, you are not forgotten !) I don't remember anything right now, but I am sure there were some useful items related to both banks of the River of Cradles in Tradetalk and/or YBoT. At least there *will* be in YBoT 3, so thank you germans et alii !
All of the above makes Prax & Co. the best elaborated part of Glorantha. It means that many campaigns that are played *today* take place here. Of course, there are also many holes that need to be filled & many things are still needed to make it fully *playable*, but at least there is solid basis to buid on. I also always thought that the HeroWars began right there in 1621 with the "Cradle Incident" & all those Argrath running around: Argrath of Pavis (sic), Argrath White-Bull, Garrath Swordsharp, Argrath Dragonspear, doesn't even Argrath Maniskisson have a link with Prax & the Wastes or is he *the only* Argrath who hasn't ?!?
But do you think that with all of this, there is any project to publish Praxpak ?!? You bet there isn't, of course !!! My, it could only increase the playabilty of Glorantha & give some much needed fuel to some old & perhaps moribund campaigns... As for me, I have the intimate conviction that a player's book called, I don't know, let's say "BEASTLY (!) RIDERS Praxian nomads book" could be one of the better sellers of the whole line, what with all those *players*, not only GMs, who have spent some time or who are even now spending time in the old playground where the Way of Waha rules... And with all that exists already, it would be comparatively easy to write such a book or books, wouldn't it ?!? Because, let's face it, it is impossible to write, say, "RINLIDDI RULES !" or "KINGDOM OF WAR" & barely possible to write "SARTAR RISING !" OR "KETHAELA FREED !" without any access to Greg. Whereas Praxpak... the mind boggles !!! (Thank you Uleria & Ratslaff ! ;o)
So what should we do, now ? Simple: here is the plan: :o) ;o) :o)
To: "Greg Stafford" <Greg_at_Glorantha.com>
Subject: We want PRAXPAK ! Save our beloved Prax for future generations !
Content: Dear Greg,
in print or on line, from Issaries or from the fans, it doesn't
matter. But let us have, please, our PRAXPAK for HeroWars !
Thank you in advance,
Joe Fan
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Pro HW saepe pro Glorantha semper. ;o)
Christoph Kohring, fan :o)
P.S.: In all fairness, it should be mentioned that the current table of contents of "SARTAR RISING ! Igniting the Hero Wars" includes a section called "Praxians" as well as another one called "The Great Ship Ride" which I presume is an expanded version of the Cradle scenario.
Cf. http://www.glorantha.com/products/1401.html
It all started with this paragraph here:
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:47:40 +0100
> From: "Simon Bray" <simonbray_at_cwcom.net>
> Subject: Re: Martin Hawley Pop Quiz.
> On a much more Gloranthan note. Is there any plans to print guidelines for
> converting or creating all our Praxian information to Hero Wars ? I know that
> Urox has been skipped in the Core Rules until fully clarified, I assume that
> this is also having an effect on Storm Bull. Is the Web Page carrying this
> stuff?
I also had the following exchange in memory:
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:39:08 EST
> From: TTrotsky_at_aol.com
> Subject: Re: Praxian sourcebook
>
> Ilav Topix [Gian Gero]:
>
> << Thank you, Trotsky, for your notion on Praxian publication. My question
> was intended to provoke this sequel: is anyone reading going to ask my
> humble contributions (or at least giving me a chance to prove my fitness
> in writing such a sourcebook? (begging tone) >>
>
> Issaries are really the people to contact about that, especially as
> nobody is presently writing such a book. Scott Schneider is Praxian Expert,
> so he'd likely be one of the first to know of a Praxian book when one is
> planned. Having examples of your work is always helpful, so try getting that
> published in one of the fanzines (if you've done so already, my apologies for
> not recalling seeing your name) or, failing that, put stuff up at a website.
>
> Trotsky
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