>
> I don't want a one line description. For Short cult write ups I
want
> a one line description to give a general feel
Which for the majority of feats (armour of woad, thunderstone...) they do
and for long cult
> writeups I want lots of LUVERLY DETAILS! :o) (makes me go all weak
at
> the knees to even say it...) Goddamit, I really must be the
> antichrist to suggest this, huh!? Keep the short cult writeups for
> the limited page books and get as many long, detail-heavy writeups
on
> the web site. oh yeah, baby! ;o)
>
and since that is what is happening, what is your problem? Complaining that the short form descriptions in the HW book are not long and detailed, and then saying that you don't need long and detailed descriptions in short form writeups is somewhay contradictory...
> well... these are pretty simple ideas, but I'll try again (with
> another of my bullshit stories cos I know you love 'em Tim!).
Newbies
> buy HW and try to play. Confusion and turmoil ensue "what's this?
> what's that? are we meant to just make it all up ourselves? uh...".
Empirical evidence suggesets that the newbies have an easier time time coping than the old RQ Grognards who run around saying "but surely you can only use Armout of Woad on Orlanths high holy day like it said in RoC..."
(OK the Empirical evidence is based on a ridiculously small sample, and is not very scientific...)
> DETAILS. Playing a character, being in character is about DETAILS.
> Improvisation is on top of that. But you gotta have the details
> before you can improvise them. Tim, here is what I think your
> description of a broo is... "a thing", or maybe "a chaos thing" (is
> that too much detail?). This is great, as it gives us huge scope
for
> improvisation and interesting DO IT ALL YOURSELF situations. You
> don't even need to buy Anaxial's Roster. A list of the animal names
> is on the glorantha site. Get the list, why bother with the
DETAILS!!!
Details are only good so long as they are meaningful. The "details"
of why a Cow is different from a Broo are important for most peoples
game. The "details" of why a jersey cow is different from a fresian
is much less likely to be of use. Thus "Anaxials Roster" is
good, "Anaxials book of Cows" would not be. Information on Lots of
Cults in HW:RiG is good, exhaustive detail on only two or three of
them *instead* Would not be.
That's not to say that more information about the cults (longform writeups, collections of myths, etc) wouldn't be good, or useful products. We might very well see them in the Regional/Players books. But if what you want to do is encourage those 2-3 newbies from your example who make it this far, you will stand far more chance if you are not constantly complaining about the lack of feat descriptions....
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