> --- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Richard"
> <richaje_at_...> wrote:
>>
>
>> No, I am saying Ernaldans deserve respect because they have a lot of
>> magical power and they worship one of the primal gods of Glorantha.
>> And if you are playing Heroquest or Pendragon Pass, you no longer are
>> using a rules system that only models violence or success/failure with
>> skills and should be able to create dramatic tension around events
>> other than smashing things.
>>
>
> There was one Ernaldan player in Jeff's recent Sartar game -- it would
> be interesting to hear how well this theory worked for her in
> practice. Fortunately for her, she doesn't read this list.
>
> For the rest of you, I propose an exercise: When the log of Jeff's
> Sartar game is published, go through the dramatic high points and list
> off the ones where an Ernalda PC did or could have played a key role.
> Then go through and list off the ones where a Vingan could have played
> a key role.
>
> It's no contest, really. The few Ernalda moments were ones that Jeff
> bravely inserted by departing wholesale from the _Sartar Rising_
> storyline. The rest is practically all warfare and Orlanthi magic. For
> the vast majority of the story, traditional female characters who
> appear at all are just setting details, sort of like the Africans in
> _Out of Africa_ or the Egyptians in _The English Patient_.
>
> I don't fault Jeff for this -- he did as much as anyone could
> reasonably expect to make things playable for the Ernaldan PC. But as
> I noted elsewhere, the Ernaldan PC's follower husband might well have
> ended up with more screen time, due to the nature of the Sartar
> material Jeff was working with.
>
> Ian Thomson somehow managed to work things differently in his
> campaign, it would be nice to hear how.
>
> By the way: To evaluate the screen time of a hypothetical Vingan in
> Jeff's campaign log, you can just search for the word "Brenna". That's
> the name of a woman warrior PC who was not a Vingan, but who dallied
> with men and eventually (gasp) got pregnant. Let's hope that her cult
> of Redalda doesn't pick up some nasty social handicap the next time it
> gets a rewrite.
How about saving us the trouble (as we don;t have it yet) and just giving us the results?
Michael
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