Re: Gloranthan Reality & Hero Wars

From: Charles Corrigan <glorantha_at_...>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:21:25 -0000

Greg, at Convulsion, told us that he takes great pleasure in the arguments we have over Sunset Leap - I take this to mean any argument over the precise definitition of any affinity, feat, spell, ability, whatever.

I personally like this vagueness - it matches with the stories and myths of Glorantha rather better than the spells of RQ2/RQ3 did. It allows us, if that is what we want, to much more easily involve the PCs in making the new myths of the Hero Wars.

Martin Laurie or Wesley Quadros said in a previous posting that in the Lunar book they are writing, the feats etc. will have similarly short names with few if any descriptions. This allows them to put more background and myths in a book with a specific word-count. I assume that they have done this under the explicit direction of Greg and that the Sartar books will be similarly written.

The only place where I think this deliberately designed-in vagueness could be seen to fall down is for those groups where English (or French) is not the primary language. Synonyms and puns rarely translate well.

And for all of us, Greg and Roderick recommend that we

        "GO WITH THE STORY, NOT WITH THE RULES". If something in (or not in) the rules does not suit you and your group then make up something that does.

regards,
Charles

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