Re: Heortling boardgames

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:47:13 -0000

> Guy Hoyle says:
>
> >Alternatively, The problem doesn't arise since the Heortlings don't
> >invent/play the sort of games which might be considered blasphemous
> >or dangerous. A (chess like abstract) wargame might use the
> >Thunderbrothers, or the Storm Tribe as peices, but it represents
> >the "friendly" conflicts of God-time. No one plays games where the
> >pieces represent the pre-dark...
>
> There's an idea for an adventure....
>
I like that adventure idea!

I also agree with Guy--when I first suggested that the board games could represent the conflicts of the god time I was thinking more like the conflict between Orlanth and Heler (well, against the water tribe, led at the time by he whom we call Heler). I also assumed the game would be assymetrical, with an advantage to the storm tribe, of course. And what warrior wouldn't admit that even the greatest victories could have gone the other way? Alternatively you could run it more at the hero level. *shrug* definately a YGMV type thing though.