(Message rqd:19) Return-Path:Received: from Holland.Sun.COM (sunnl) by homeland.Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08348; Tue, 20 Jul 93 17:17:18 +0200 Received: from glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM by Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1e) id AA11642; Tue, 20 Jul 93 17:16:08 +0200 Received: by glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25420; Tue, 20 Jul 93 17:15:18 +0200 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 17:15:18 +0200 Message-Id: <9307201515.AA25420@glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM> From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Tue, 20 Jul 1993, part 1 Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily) Sender: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM Precedence: junk Status: O The RuneQuest Daily and RuneQuest Digest deal with the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. 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Send enquiries and Subscription Requests to the editor: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Henk Langeveld) --------------------- From: henkl@holland.sun.com (Henk Langeveld - Sun Nederland) Subject: Call for Volunteers (Re: Loren Miller: digest requests) Message-ID: <1993Jul19.154603.27359@holland.sun.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 15:46:03 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1301 LOREN@marketing.wharton.upenn.edu (Loren Miller) writes: >Hi Henk, >Would it be possible for you to make up digests on the recently >discussed topics of: >Sacred Kingship >Gloranthan Tarot >The East Isles >You might have to wait until discussion dies down, but that's okay by >me. I'd really like to see these topics in one place, instead of >scattered across multiple dailies. >Are you planning to rework the digests to be topical, so that each >one concentrates on a single subject? I'd prefer them this way if >it's possible for you. Indeed I would prefer 'topical' digests. However, I find that I barely have the time to keep the auto-digester running and to maintain the subscription lists. So, here I am asking for Co-Moderators of the RuneQuest Digest. Anyone can become a co-moderator by sending a discussion summary to RuneQuest-Digest-Editor@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM On the Subject: line, include the phrase 'Summary:' and a short description of the topic at hand. When Summarizing, please delete redundant quotes, instead include the RQ-ID numbers referred to. Also try to keep RQ-IDs in numerical order and include original headers. I will collect these summaries and remail them to the digest on a regular basis. -- Henk | Henk.Langeveld@Sun.COM - Disclaimer: I don't speak for Sun. oK[] | RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM --------------------- From: grendel@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (John Castellucci) Subject: Fanzine submissions needed! Message-ID: <9307191617.AA06408@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu> Date: 19 Jul 93 02:17:55 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1302 RQ Adventures Fanzine is looking for your contributions! Our goal is to explore Glorantha through adventuring. Every issue will contain one or more scenarios along with the background material needed to run them. We are looking for: Adventures (from ideas to fully stat'ed out, or anywhere in between), Cult write ups, Original Gloranthan art (send photocopies only!), New monsters, Personalities/Locations, Fiction/History, ...and more! Of special interest are submissions set in Pavis/Big Rubble for issue #4 & Stormbull/Praxian submissions for issue #3 (The Block). Our diligent editorial staff is able fill out material and beautifully typeset it. Maybe your original creature and someone else's adventure were made for each other -- you'll never find out unless you send 'em in! Submissions via email to grendel@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu via IBM floppy diskette or typed manuscript to correspondence address and the end of this announcement BTW -- Copies of issue 1 are still available! RQ Adventures is professionally typeset and printed -- issue 1 is 32 pages saddle stapled + cardstock cover (same format as TOTRM). Issue 1 is $5.00US for United States residents (postage included) $6.00US for foreign airmail (no foreign currency accepted) Make checks payable to: John Castellucci and send to: RQ Adventures Fanzine 2006 22nd Ave. San Francisco, CA 94116 USA --------------------- From: f6ri@midway.uchicago.edu (charles gregory fried) Subject: spontaneously erupting cults Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 93 16:26:42 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1303 Greg Fried here. Paul: Very nice illustrations of spontaneous cult formation! I suppose something similar has happened in my campaign, where the PCs rescued a volcano spirit and began something that looks like the Lodril cult. For both the players and the GM, it's really fun to be on hand for the creation of a cult from the ground up in the gaming-world. It's a major inspiration for real role-playing! My PCs are engaged in all sorts of esoteric questions, like, will the cult weapon be axe (empasizing Earth aspects of their cult) or the spear (as in the official Lodril)? What will be the future requirements for initiation? How does the cult integrate with other religious practice in the area? All such questions get role-played. I love it! ----------------- To the person with 15+ PCs: How'd things work out?! GF out. --------------------- From: justin_cann@netmail.washcoll.edu (Justin Cann) Subject: subscribe Message-ID: <9307191650.AA20378@martha.washcoll.edu> Date: 18 Jul 93 18:28:47 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1304 subscribe --------------------- From: gadbois@cs.utexas.edu (David Gadbois) Subject: Reaching Moon Megacorp North America Ltd. Message-ID: <19930719223412.8.GADBOIS@CLIO.MCC.COM> Date: 19 Jul 93 12:34:00 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1305 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 14:11 CDT From: Anthony Ragan I saw that Tales....#10 is out in England: is it available here in the States yet? And is it still $3 per issue? Thanks. The camera-ready copy for issue 10 should arrive in a week or so, and it will take another week to get the copies printed and mailed off to North American subscribers. Look for your copies towards the end of the first week in August. The current price is still US$3.00 an issue. After the initial issue 10 mailing, the subscription price will go up to $4.00 ($5.00 retail.) Also, my source of cheap photocopying for back issues has dried up, so I will no longer be selling back issues once my current inventory runs out. The Griselda book: I have ordered a limited number of copies. They are coming by surface mail and should be available in a couple of months. Pricing will depend on how much it costs to mail the books, but it will probably be around $12.00. --David Gadbois --------------------- From: gal502@cscgpo.anu.edu.au (Graeme A Lindsell) Subject: Kralorelan Ancestor Worship Message-ID: <9307200821.AA04276@cscgpo.anu.edu.au> Date: 20 Jul 93 23:23:04 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1306 Paul writes: > > If we go to once-per-year Rune Magic for Initiates what would you think > of the ideas that most Kralori are Initiates and the family matriarchs are > acolytes? Yes, something like that. Probably more like Initiates: all adults Acolytes: must be a parent ; Priest: family patriarch. In what I have read about Chinese ancestor worship, the most important service a descendant can provide is a male child, to carry on the family name. I don't know how patriarchal the Kralorelans are meant to be, so I just made the requirement a legitimate child, but it is still the basic prerequisite for higher cult status. As for the family matriarchs, I'm still trying to find exactly the status of women in chinese ancestor worship. My sources say that the practice seems to have arisen from earlier emperors, who worshipped their predecessors as gods, and it later progressed down the social ladder. One of my sources, which is an anthropological work on a chinese town in the 1940's, says that Ancestor worship was more popular amongst the richer families: the poor had less money and time for them, and perhaps did not want to tell their ancestors about the current state of their family. Graeme Lindsell a.k.a gal502@huxley.anu.edu.au --------------------- From: rog@isltd.insignia.com (Rog) Subject: Re: RuneQuest Daily, Fri, 16 Jul 1993, part 1 Message-ID: <564.9307201049@incautius> Date: 20 Jul 93 12:49:52 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1307 > Let's do a gedankenexperiment. I raise a child in a cellar in Boldhome > and tell him all about the marvelous Celestial Empire outside with its flying > golden chariots and fifty legged steeds to draw them across the sky. He > really, really believes this. What does he find when he goes outside? > Remember, "Glorantha is a world were the world view of everyone that lives > is correct." He would simply believe in your lies and find them to be such. --------------------- From: awr0@aberystwyth.ac.uk Subject: Runequest NET material Message-ID: <9307201309.AA25365@deca> Date: 20 Jul 93 15:09:26 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1308 I will be leaving university on the 26th of this month and will be travelling to China for 5 weeks, and then hopefully will be returning to this debt ridden country of mine to get myself a wonderful job. I would like to take this opportunity to state that the rq material that I have collated together has been placed into 5 documents : Adventures 73 p. Areas + Fragments 94 p. Cults 239 p. Rules + Systrems 26 p. Societies + Creatures 63 p. They have been latexed and the postscript versions are also available for those who do not want text versions. There are a number of ways in which I can send you the material : 1: Unix Compressed, uuencoded and split into 2000 line chunks 2: Lharced UUENCODED, split into 2000 line chunks 3: Tarred compressed and uuencoded and split There are also 2 formats that you can get the material in. 1 : Original latex file (ASCII) 2 : Postscript format (Send direct to the laser printer) I have not as yet placed these formats onto soda but I will be doing that later on today in the incomming directory in the Runequest directory and it is dependent on SHannon to then allow access. I will only be placing the post script documents there. For those who already have my original document of 472 pages, all I have done is seperated out the material into more managable parts. (There is the addition of Ezroth to the Cults section.) If I receive stupid requests like 'Send it to me' I will ignore the mail. I need to know the exact format that you need it in. All material has been taken from the net and has a disclaimer stating that thre material is for PERSONAL use only. If anybody has any questions or wants me to compile the material in another way....mail me and ask. Adam PS: ANybody have a job going within their company for a recent graduate in Computer Science? Mail me!!!!! --------------------- From: awr0@aberystwyth.ac.uk Subject: Talking about mail sizes Message-ID: <9307201318.AA25887@deca> Date: 20 Jul 93 15:18:44 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1309 The files I mail people will be no greater than exaqctly 124000bytes or around 124k Adam --------------------- From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: Tales Sales Down Under Message-ID: <01H0SADEVUT68WX39N@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 21 Jul 93 10:51:02 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1310 >At last! We've printed something! TALES OF THE REACHING MOON is available in Australia from me (address below). At the moment, I have only have a small number of copies of issue #9 available as back issues (actually I've got *one* left), but am expecting a shipment of the reprinted issue #5's any day now. The Griselda Book will be available in Australia soon, unless the tea clipper suffers strong head winds. The cost for an Australian subscription is still A$16.00 for three issues, and this includes postage. This will rise very, very soon! Single issue cost is A$4.50 + A$1.50 postage. Issue #5 is also available at this price. Please make cheques payable to "Michael O'Brien". Michael O'Brien 2/33 Carween Ave. MITCHAM, Victoria 3132 Australia