> >Personaly I think Tap spells are evil and their use is moraly
> >corrupt, so I'd say yes.
>
> Not everything that is "evil or morally corrupt" is chaos.
True, but they aid and abett it. Tap is chaos because it is an act of uncreation, which is chaos.
> ...They are just evil, bad, rotten, nasty
> things to do. This has got to be the case or every Gloranthan
adventure
> becomes "heroes vs chaos," and that's kind of dull.
I don't see why, just because a wrongdoer's actions may theoreticaly, according to orthodox doctrine have weakened the veil between chaos and the world isn't a very immediate and convincing reason for hunting him down. The fact he murdered his older brother for selfish ends will do nicely thank you, chaos doesn't have to come into it at all.
> ...You also erode the
> difference between scary but natural cultures (like the Exiles or
the
> Aramites) and chaos horrors, which cheapens the story.
Actual chaotic creatures and powers are of course an order of magnitude worse, because the criminal doesn't have to keep on doing bad things to make the world bad; Chaos has torn a ragged hole in the cosmos and is busily pulling itself in all by itself. The situation has gone from being containable, to beign criticaly unstable. Of course it's worse.
> Anyway, this is getting over-long, but there has to be room in
> Glorantha for evil to be just evil.
I think there is, but I don't think it's risk-free in the way you seem to be suggesting.
Simon Hibbs
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