sky or air

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:42:34 -0800

YGWV.
> From: "danhalberd" <dan_at_...>

wonders about
> Subject: Re: Flying Magic in HeroQuest
>
> In a previous message I said asked for opinions about the 'Gallop
> through Sky" at 10 to 1w2 that Yu-Kargzant has on p144 of HeroQuest.
>
> The replies have been interesting and I'll use some of them in my
> game thanks.
>
> Its interesting how no consensus seems to emerge about the 'Sky'
> and 'Air' here.

The original intent was just what it says: sky. It is a method of visiting the heavens.

> What makes this especially interesting is as
> this is a pretty low level ability

> The alterantive to all this is that 'sky' does mean 'sky' not 'air'.
> In this case 'Gallop through Sky' is a very interesting ability.
> According to Elder Secrets of Glorantha p42 the sky is made of
> several huge domes the innermost of which are transparant whilst the
> outer one is opaque but pierced by star holes. There's a 'Sky World'
> up there too with a river, cities etc.

In fact, it is visited by adenturers in the Sky Ship scenario.

> So presumably one could
> gallop on one of the sky domes, or under a sky dome or in the sky
> world. What the resistence of all this is supposed to be I don't
> know.

...which is opposed by the magical resistance of the hevenly environment, not the "normal" 14.

YGWV

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