Re: Re: One more chaotic question

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:08:02 -0700


At 02:08 PM 8/30/2002 -0000, you wrote:
>> > Anyway, this is getting over-long, but there has to be room in
>> > Glorantha for evil to be just evil.

I think that part of the poblem is that we've mostly been subjected (thanks to me!) to the Heortling perspective.

Also, using the word "chaos" skews our perspective about what it is or might be.

>Why invoke chaos as your mechanism? Surely there's divine or spiritual
>retribution (often in the form of player characters). I prefer to use
>more subtle and 'inside the world' methods of illustrating the
>way-of-the-world than having folks sprout tentacles or sweat acic.
>Which means when they DO start sweating acid, everyone is proprely
>shocked and horrified.

Yes.

Let's take it to the Digest.



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