Re: Telmori

From: Norbert Franz <norbert.franz1_at_...>
Date: 17 Mar 2005 23:46 GMT

Way to go, Light Castle... that's a wonderful start.

I faced a similar situation years ago, just after the release of the Hero Wars RPG (Hero Wars, not HeroQuest).

I had recruited a player who insisted on playing only learned, full-time sorcerers or wizards, and I spent a great deal of time explaining the Hero Wars rules to him, as well as how Wizardry worked in Glorantha, where it came from, and that a sorcerous character would probably be well advised being a member of a Malkioni church. I also showed him all the magic keywords from HW, like the Lunar Makabaeus sorcerer, but to no avail. It turned out that he did not like any of the printed, "official" HW keywords at that time, so he invented this character who was a traveller from somewhere in Ramalia, from a community that had been nearly wiped out. He was a member of a sorcery sect called "Those Who Seek," since they believed in the prophecy of the return of a great deity of whom all descriptions and even its name had been lost (or was forbidden to speak!). They couldn't say what their deity would do after its re-manifestation, not even whether it was light or dark, male or female, or ...maybe, both? Those Who Seek were all about travelling to exotic lands and locales to narrow down the search, trying to find out which of the local cults or entities might be Their Secret Deity.

I told the player he needed a grimoire in order to use sorcery effectively, and he created one by himself, called "Flames of Intolerance" or something of that kind. He could look at a door and make it burst into flames, "by the power of the Unknown Deity..."

Frankly, I didn't like that amount of player freedom at the time, since it was used by a player who was, ... well, a bit aloof and difficult to deal with. I also wasn't too sure about allowing a community that had no roots in either Orlanthi or Malkioni society in any of the printed sources. I changed my stance on that, too. After the "Origami Magic" girl in HQ, I know I have to watch for many surprises.

• Norbert

"Light Castle" <light_castle_at_...> wrote:

> <    Sounds like great fun. I think it's wonderful seeing what people who have never seen the 

> world come up with. In my game, the one that I think is most fun is the guy who asked if
> he could ignore the homelands I brought and make his own. So he is playing a mage
> who fled an island of atheist mages who were sealed in by the closing. (They thought
> the rest of the world destroyed.)  This mage found out his immortal mage king (who
> claims to have created the Closing to save the only good people left) is evil and fled,
> ending up cast into the fathomless sea where he was fished out by a Holy Country ship.
>
> The result is that his background implies he may be from Brithos, and found swimming
> in the oceans and possessed of strange magics, some think he may be the Pharoah
> returned. All this made without the slightest idea of Gloranthan history.
>
> LC
>
>
> On 17 Mar 2005 at 22:29, Norbert Franz wrote:
>
>
> > Thank you so much. I'll bookmark that right away...
> >
> > By the way, my possibly wolfish-inclined young recruit
> > just decided to play a Puma People Thief/Mugger with
> > Teshnan common magic talents. I think the character rocks.
> >
> > We had a "character-creation only meeting" a few hours ago, and actual play will start in 7 days exactly.
> > I'm very excited about that, as I've been away from
> > Glorantha and HeroQuest for a while.
> >
> > -- Norbert
> >
>
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