> Its very hard to tell what is as-yet-unprinted-but-in-wide-
> circulation-among-those-In-The-Know, and what is a house
> rule more properly ignored... What I am interested in is
> the shared glorantha, the bit that (orlanthi) all games will
> have in common.
The best way to discover material which other Glorantha fans would recommend is asking questions on Gloranthan mailing lists (such as this one). So you've made a good start with Shargash.
If you want access to official material that is "as-yet-unprinted-but- in-wide-circulation-among-those-In-The-Know," you could always join the GTA (for $100+) and get access to whatever snippets/drafts/old stuff has been made available on password-protected bits of Issaries' website.
But asking questions here first is probably the best idea. It's certainly cheaper.
If you want to identify "semi-official" sources, I've stuck a link to the old list of Issaries' Gloranthan Regional Experts up in our Bookmarks area. These are people who worked closely with Greg to define various bits of Glorantha. Material they wrote before November 1998 will have inspired Greg to give them that access; material they wrote in the year or so thereafter ought to have benefitted from that access. (Plus, you'll know some well-informed names to look out for on mailing lists such as these).
The idea was for all the regional experts to produce monthly FAQs and synopses of discussions, but none of those emerged. (Pity). I have no idea if anything like this is happening at present, as the Issaries site is silent: cf. http://www.issaries.com/inc/bios.html
Cheers, Nick
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