"Glorantha is a Bronze Age world. Bronze is common, and can be mined directly from the bones of the gods who died in the Gods' War."
"In Glorantha, the gods, in the forms of their followers and cult, play an active and important part in most major events. However, most gods are complementary, and rarely oppose each other directly."
> Mundane history usually gets much less "play". Otherworld beings > (God, spirits, etc) and their followers (Cults, worshippers) > Relationships (at least since HW - RQ wasn't that big on them...).
"Unlike the worlds in other role-playing games, there is no alignment, as such. People have allegiances to nations, cities religions, and tribes, not to abstract concepts."
> Wierd sh*t - whether you play with origami magic, or argue about the > aerodynamics of a fully-laden Chaos Bat-demon, you acknowledge that > there is some really off-the-wall stuff.
Dragons the size of mountain ranges, Dragonewts, dream-dragons, ducks
Rob wrote:
> my 2 clacks worth...
>
> Way back in the early eighties I played RQ with my friends because
> the rules system had very few restictions on your choices.
>
> I found that Glorantha had a 'Tolkien-esque' authenticity which
> locked me in. When I finally got around to playing AD&D we played
> through the various packs and there was no cohesion.
>
> Even in the early days playing in Glorantha you chose characters who
> fitted together for cultural reasoning, not because of a fixed
> rule.
>
> The legendary early scenario packs, Pavis, Borderlands, etc.. had
> the kind of coherence and rationale seemingly absent from other
> games.
>
> Then there was that Lunar/Sartar thing - not long after Star Wars.
> You had this omnipotent, omnipresent Empire. But the tragedy was
> that we generally never got to sock it to them!!!
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