On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 05:41 AM, donald_at_... wrote:
> Yes, but at the same time the list needs to avoid giving the
> impression that unoffical publications, or indeed all the
> official supplements are necessary to enjoy Glorantha.
>
> My view is that reference to anything currently available should
> be OK but detailed discussion which assumes the reader has copies
> available should be shifted to the digest.
Yes.
Remember that one of the major perception problems that Glorantha has (among the general gaming populace which has even heard of it, which isn't all that large) is that there's just too much material. That you need to buy dozens of books, some of which are very unlikely to be stocked in your FLGS, to even start to understand the setting.
(As a data point, this is something I believed, after getting the first handful of Hero Wars books (HW, Narrator's Guide, Glorantha, and Anaxial's Roster). It's only been through diligent lurking on this list, and much clearer and more focussed products, that I've become convinced otherwise. (Everything after Storm Tribe has been very focussed on encouraging me to play my own Glorantha, with the possible exception of Orlanth is Dead, which I have slight reservations about.))
Anyway, this perception is a Bad Thing, as far as getting more people buying HeroQuest (and thus supporting more publications from Issaries).
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 03:03 AM, simon_hibbs2 wrote:
> I think increasing the exposure of Hero Wars/Hero Quest
> publications is obviously a suitable goal for this list.
Arguably (he says with self-referential irony), the *primary* purpose of this list should be to make it easy for people to play HeroQuest, and increasing the exposure of non-Issaries publications is only moderately helpful in that regard, and (as I believe and ranted about above) is to some degree at cross-purposes.
Again, mentioning a non-official publication is probably fine ... but you should be *very* careful to do so in a manner that won't scare away lurkers. Glorantha really is an accessible, easy-to-adapt setting ... and this list needs to make that fact very clear.
Sorry to drag the discussion out; please feel free to respond via private email if I'm Just Not Getting Your Point.
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