Re: Re: Contributing to Glorantha

From: Guy Hoyle <ghoyle1_at_...>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 13:58:46 -0600

On 12/1/2001 at 7:00 PM segolene wrote:
> I don't think that people who contribute to fanzines want their
>material
>to become official anyway. TORM, UW, and TT are written in english and
>have
>some chance to be "Gregged" but what about fanzines (and web sites) in
>other langages that Issaries will probably never be able to read ??? They
>do
>exist ! And their autors may have not time, nor ressoucres to translate
>them
>in English (especially US English, as they have learned UK English or
>Australian English or others).

Hi, segolene!
Inside most RPG fans that I've met is the urge to have something of theirs (an idea, a suggestion, a sourcepack) become "official". I think that this is especially true for Glorantha fans.

>
>> > There is one other reason people have not been posting as
>> > much that needs to be mentioned. It has nothing to do with
>> > people's hesitancy to write and/or post on certain "risky"
>> > topics. The number of people who are interested in reading
>> > or gaming in Glorantha is still shrinking.
>>
>> That is surely true. In Germany with have real problems with making HW
>more
>> popular as RQ was.

Of course, RQ has been around for more than 20 years, and HW has only been around for 1 or 2. The two rules systems are attempting to do very different things, as well, and not all fans of RQ will be interested in doing things the HW way. Of course, not all fans of RuneQuest play in Glorantha, either.

>
>True : you may not want to hear about it but the new HW rules have "cut
>off"
>the glorantha fans.
>In France, some (many of the ?) "historical" RQ referees don't want to
>upgrade their game to HW rules and go on playing with the old rule system
>but sometimes buy HW supplements as sourcebooks (especially if this book
>are
>not only upgrades of former RQ publications). They have enough experience
>as
>referees to adapt this material easily and find it a waste of time to make
>their players learn a new system !

If they are getting new Gloranthan material, and buying the supplements, then I still don't see the problem. It should be possible to adapt much of the source material in HW to RQ.

>This people really like Glorantha but have little time for it (job, family,
>need time to write their own scenarii as their PJs are not in the Pavis and
>Dragon Pass aera anymore).
>One of them has developped his complete "own unofficial Pamaltela" for RQ3.
>I have developped my own campaign in Ralios and lunars are not the first
>topic that interested my players. This material is still RQ3's...

A lot of the material about Dragon pass Orlanthi will be useful in Ralios, as well. I would look forward to seeing anybody else's campaign material in other regions of Glorantha, too, even if it isn't "official". Creativity should not be shackled by the iron chains of orthodoxy.

Hoody-hoo!
"The Original" Guy Hoyle
Guy Hoyle (ghoyle1_at_...)
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