Re: Status report on the new edition of HQ

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:10:48 -0700


Shoot, that was supposed to be to Jeff, not the list.

RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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From: "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_...> To: <HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Status report on the new edition of HQ

> Hi Jeff,
>
> Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, but I left the printout with my
> notes
> behind me at my Mother-in-law's house.
>
> My main point would be "Gloranthan magic is powered by runes."
> While this is undoubtably true, they are never powered directly from the
> runes, but from intermediate beings - gods, spirits, saints. I think this
> needs to be made clear in the opening paragraphs. On first reading, you'd
> think that theists have no gods, and monotheists don't have
> saints/founders.
>
> For example, theists should "focus on one rune of their god" rather than
> on
> "a rune".
>
> Also, "Many theist cultures are associated with a specific rune and
> typically have that rune as one of their three starting affinities. "
>
> This is utter bunk. People are not identified by the rune, but by the
> entity. Heortling men have Air *because* they worship Orlanth, not because
> they have some strange affinity to the rune.
>
> Anyway, if you've finished your final edits, this is too late, but i hope
> these were addressed.
>
> RR
> He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
> R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
>
>
>> Just to let folk know - I just finished my last edits to the new
>> Glorantha magic rules for HQ 2.0 and the team is making the final
>> spell-checks and similar edits. Art will still take a little more
>> time, but the contents of this baby are pretty much finished.
>>
>> And boy is it cool. Really cool. Really fantastically cool.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>> I still read the list, and post occasionally. Thing is when I
>> heard a new edition was coming out with some substantially new
>> mechanics, I sort of put my HQ plans on hold - and it's been quite a
>> while now. Is the edition still do to launch at Continuum? And is
>> Blood Over Gold finally going to be available in hard copy then?
>> Basically it comes down to waiting till Auguist on my part, plus i
>> have a lot of rpg commisions ot work on for strict deadlines, so my HQ
>> playing is very limited till late summer...
>>>
>>> cj x
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