> I think the big problem is that aldryami have never been given the
> sort of treatment that uz have, not even in RQ, so we don't know how
> alien they are. Some RQ stuff like Griffin Mountain portrays them as
> being more like Tolkien elves but more recent evidence suggests that
> they really are very alien.
I think the main problem is that we don't know how the aldryami transmit their culture to the younger generations. So, we don't have any proper "What The Swamp Thing Told Me" &c for the aldryami, which makes it *that* much harder for players and GMs to relate to them. Just as importantly, we don't know what the aldryami _think_ , an obvious handicap as compared to our knowledge of Uz and Mostali thought structures and content.
At least with HW/HQ there's no real problem simulating ;-) forest defense systems and other elvish goodness ...
Julian Lord
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