Re: What happen to Chaos ?

From: dalamides <florent.bonardot_at_...>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:27:30 -0000


 "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_s...> wrote:
> Also, we have plenty of real problems to think of - how the
stinking lunars
> are stealing our cattle, or how the Blue Door Lotus League is
musceling
> ointo our trading 'turf', or the magical ramifications of a troll
winning
> Year-Husband, etc.

Yeah sure, and i like this too. But chaos is part of glorantha, rq one or hq one imho.

 "Monster hunting" is much less the goal of HQ than RQ (or
> D&D). Sure there are gangs of Chaos thingies, or individual
monsters running
> around, but the political/religious/cultural tensions are what the
hero wars
> are all about, not bashing a couple broo and a scorpion man or two.
>

Excuse me but chaos can be more than this ... and glorantha/rq was more than dd or monster bashing.
Something like the book Dorastor, Land of Doom tell us than chaos and broo can give the "political/religious/cultural tensions". Chaos is more than monster bashing.
Shadow on the borderland was another one. The storie with muriah/duc raus and special lunar force was a MGF ;) The ogre with the cult of cacodemon or the cult of thanhatar can give lots of things.
I like a lot what is done with heroquest but somethimes it seems, to me "to fall in the hands" of specialist of historical real life culture. They do great things , but monster can have a culture too !

> As an example, that Earth Temple buried in the Chaos Caves in Snake
Pipe
> Hollow is more interesting than the chaos baddies surrounding it
(at least,
> *I* think so). Can the heroes revive the lost cult of Baroshi? What
can the
> Snake Pipe do in the hands of a god? Which god? Can the heroes do
*anything*
> about the Mother Maggot or the Hole Into the Void? Killing off some
monsters
> is just an appetizer for the more important questions!

Sure but its not only this :) Why do you see chaos as monster bashing only ?

There is no attack in this ;) i do what i can with my english.

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