Re: Blackhorse Secrets

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:20:55 -0800


At 09:23 AM 1/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>So only a few of humans in the BHT are really "in control" during battle.
>The rest are merely support troops to keep the infantry off the tanks - err,

And to serve as the primary targets. And emergency rations, in the way that, say, Inuit would eat their dogs in an emergency.

>hmm, ah, anyway.... In most confrontations, the narrator should remember
>that the Steed is probably in control, and the human is merely a "front" for
>it. In-game, probably no-one outside BHCounty knows about this, and assumes
>that the human speaks for the troop.

That is correct. No one knows this.
It points to the dilemma of the players knowing more than their characters in many Gloranthan situations.



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