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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