Re: So What makes a Glorantha Game Gloranthan?

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:11:55 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_s...> wrote:
  >
  > What things make a game "Gloranthan" (as opposed to just Yet
  Another Fantasy
  > RPG)
  >
  >
  My quick take would be:
  1. You are living in the rubble of history (or myth, the two are almost interchangeable in Glorantha....). That rubble is also the foundation of the present. And oh yah, much of that rubble IS magic (not magicAL, but magic).
  2. Everyone is constrained and enabled by their beliefs. Some beliefs may give rise to more potent powers than others, but nobody gets to min-max the universe as a whole (and we all no what happened to those who tried). So when wondering what you could do to solve a problem, or what opposition could do to you, the first question is "what beliefs are involved"
  3. There is a full spectrum of greys. There may be a few shades so dark as to be almost universally acknowledged as black (chaos, kingdom of war), but everything is a matter of perspective, so no player or hero can ever claim to be absolutely right, only right by the lights of his or her beliefs.

--Bryan