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> The Glorantha Digest Sunday, November 19 2000 Volume 08 : Number
126
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> TABLE OF CONTENTS
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> Kmnellist_at_aol.com Re: Heroes
> Benedict Adamson Re: Vadrus - Shargash
> Mikko Rintasaari closing
> Guy Hoyle Re: Gloranthan Miniatures
>
> RULES OF THE ROAD
>
> 1. Do not include large sections of a message in your reply. Especially
> not to add "Yeah, I agree" or "No, I disagree." Or be excoriated.
> If someone writes something good and you want to say "good show"
> please do. But don't include the whole message you praise.
> 2. Use an appropriate Subject line.
> 3. Learn the art of paraphrasing: Don't just quote and comment on a
> point-by-point basis.
> 4. No anonymous posting, please. Don't say something unless you're ready
> to stand by it.
>
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> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 15:17:14 EST
> From: Kmnellist_at_aol.com
> Subject: Re: Heroes
>
> In a message dated 11/18/00 7:39:41PM, you write:
>
> << But heros are, by definition, exceptional people with skills above
normal.
> Those skills take time to acquire, indeed the average life expectancy
> means that it is unlikely that an individual will obtain more than a
> single group of related skills. >>
>
> I do not think this is the point and I do not agree with your definition
of a
> hero. Heroism is not about good training. It is about exceptional people
with
> exceptional abilities. Heortling society is more likely to create heroic
> individuals because heroism is valued, the traits that exist is heroes are
> encouraged, and individualism makes the most of individual talents (that
may
> have been supressed in a more civilised (eg Dara Happan) society.
>
> Keith N
>
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>
> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:23:06 +0000
> From: Benedict Adamson <badamson_at_lhr-sys.dhl.com>
> Subject: Re: Vadrus - Shargash
>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:59:31 +0200 (EET)
> > From: Topi Pitkanen <tzpitkan_at_mappi.helsinki.fi>
> > Subject: Vadrus - Shargash
> - -..
> > > In HW terms, establishing that the two are the same requires a
> > > suitable heroquest ending with a Heroquest Challenge. Valare failed
> > > her Heroquest Challenge, as we know.
> >
> > I'm afraid I dont know the necessary myths for suitable heroquest.
> > My long term plan is to find out the myths - maybe to end up writing
them.
>
> The myths don't exist if nobody has tried it before. Your intrepid
> heorquester would be forging a new myth: an experimental heroquest.
>
> - -..
> > BTW Is Green-Age magic especially potent in establishing sameness
> > in glorantha?
>
> I guess Green Age heroquests are especially potent, period. In
> (strictly speaking, at the end of) the Green Age, fundamental
> distinctions become apparent, so heroquesting then can make far
> reaching changes.
>
> Were you at Convulsion this year? Greg made it clear that
> heroquesting to the Green Age is very dangerous. Seemingly innocuous
> minor events of a Green Age heroquest can have enormous consequences.
> For example, wound a denizen on such a quest, and you can be
> creating/enacting the myth of The First Wounding. On return from that
> quest, everyone who has every be wounded (which means almost
> everyone) will dislike you.
>
> Green Age heroquesters also risk being pursued and destroyed by
> bizarre fearsome monsters never seen since the Green Age. Shades of
> Cthulhu. Nick Brook suggested that this is what happened to the God
> Learners. Greg said that the Green Age corresponds to the
> undifferentiation and innocence of early childhood. If so, the God
> Learners were destroyed by the monsters that lived under their beds
> when they were children.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:10:48 +0200
> From: Mikko Rintasaari <rintasaa_at_mail.student.oulu.fi>
> Subject: closing
>
> :It would seem so, because that spell is the only way of crossing the
> :ocean... Wait. Elves could use misapplied worship! I don't think that
> :dwarves could do so. Heehaw. The Ocean-Crossing spirits of Dormalio, the
> :sailing leaf. ;)
> :
> :Elves don't do much sailing AFAIK, but the Dwarves of Slon do. Someone
> :should really invent how the dwarves overcome the Closing. Maybe they
> :were the ones who really cast it!?! Break a few kogs here and some bolts
> :there and voila oceans don't work properly. That wouldn't be a very
> :dwarvish thing to do.
>
> I think you guys are taking the closing too seriously. Who says that the
> elves and dwarves can't have broken it themselves. They have no shortage
> of magic. The elven forest's have whooping amounts of raw power, and the
> dwarven sorcery should have no trouble solving a problem that a mere
> Esrolian malkioni commoner can crack.
>
> Parhaps the closing didn't even have any effect on dwarven/elven/troll
> sailing.
>
> -Adept
>
> I think I think... Therefore I think I am.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:52:56 -0600
> From: "Guy Hoyle" <ghoyle1_at_airmail.net>
> Subject: Re: Gloranthan Miniatures
>
> On 11/18/00 at 11:45 AM owner-glorantha-digest_at_chaosium.com wrote:
> >
> >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:04:32 +0000
> >From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_timellis.demon.co.uk>
> >Subject: Gloranthan Miniatures
> >
> >I know we've mentioned them before, but for those of you not in striking
> >distance of Birmingham, There are now some pictures of the Gloranthan
> >mini's converted and painted by Roj from Wayland's forge at the
> >following site
> >
> > http://www.pershoreroad.co.uk/waylandsforge/glorantha.htm
>
> Has anyone found some good minatures that are not specifically Gloranthan?
> Possibly some historical ones (Greek, Persian, Celtic, etc) that are close
> enough to suggest the different Gloranthan cultures? I haven't been very
> much into miniatures before, but I think my inevitabl;e Hero Wars campaign
> could benefit from some visual aids.
>
> Guy Hoyle
>
> We Meddle in God's Domain So That You Don't Have To
>
From: Chris Docherty chris.docherty_at_tinyworld.co.uk
It looks like a lot of the figures in the above website are actually
'Foundry' miniatures. They're very good with a huge range but quite dear as
these things go. Try www.wargamesfoundry.com . I hope I get some free
figures out of this!
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