Re: What attracted you to Glorantha?

From: Newt <newtiswrong_at_...>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:25:05 -0000

> > Magic in Hero Wars, for me, is way to vague, and the magic
system is
> > one great indication of how HW is designed
> > with the Gloranthaphile in mind, as opposed to the new gamer.
> >
>
> I don't think this is completly true (OK I can't argue about it
being
> too vague for you...). I think that the Gloranthaphile, and the RQ
> Grognard find themselves looking for structures that HW doesn't
> provide (either "This feat is based on a myth, how can I use the
feat
> without knowing the myth?" or "How do my feats correspond to
> Bladesharp/Disruption/Harmony spells?") I don't think this is
> necessarily true for New Gamers (and the anecdotal evidence of
others
> and my own experiences running for people who are non-

> seem to bear this out) who are happy to accept that feats work by
> allowing you to do what the feat describes...

>From Demoing games at conventions I have certainly found that this is
the case. New players in fact getting carried away with the system once they realise that they have ultimate freedom to do what they want with the Magic as long as it broadly fits with the name given by the feat, and that they are limited by the power rank. This is of course after a couple of uncomfatbale moments when they fail to find any skill or magic descriptions in the rule book. Also I had one player almost run screaming when he realised there wasn't any hit points in the rules....but he soon settled down and was happliy calculating AP bids to annilate his enemy :)

:O)Newt