> Gianfranco Geroldi wrote:
> > I do not understand this point of view.
>
> I would agree with Graham's comments, especially about doing
whatever
> works for your group, but also say to my mind it is mostly genre
> inappropriate. Such events do happen in myth and fantasy, but they
> tend to happen offstage, be momentous for the storyline, and
involve
> the heroes more in the consequences than the event. If you want to
> tell stories about a character who was abandoned in the rushes, but
> will bring about the fall of the kingdom okay. But asking questions
> about whether or not Gloranthan cultures practice infanticide of
> disabled or wrong gendred children at birth is probably something
> best considered within a group, if they wish to, and not in public.
> Too many real world issues, too many people who do not want to have
> to deal with it, IMO.
Very well said, Ian. Thank you. I would, personally, regard it as
something that can be happily discussed to death on the digest.
I'll admit its not really a set of stories my group really cares to
explore. In 20 years of playing in Glorantha, neither subject has
come up aside from it being 'something those evil people over THERE'
do.
A look at the kind of magic availible in HeroWars might prove
instructive...
Jeff