It adds a certain amount of authenticity when we base gaming cultures
on real world culture. The inexorable shift to an Icelandic/ Viking
view of the world has not translated into my games, other than the
names perhaps. Mostly I tend toward a more celtic/ Iron Age Briton
type view of the nearest earthly analogue.
Also, for the purposes of a role playing game I agree making yet
another culture insist that female warriors are completely bonkers,
just because they may happen to have actually been historically or
are now.
The only reasonable defence I think that Greg and the others can
offer is that essentially Glorantha was not created to serve a
roleplaying games needs.
But then that does mark a point where the world becomes actually less
appealing to me at least. For a culture that is played by female
roleplayers, I am still more than suprised by the line that some are
taking re one of the only (if not the only) warrior cult for women
who are not written as out and out lunies (such as Babs Gor).
She may of course not be an important goddess in Gloranthan
cosmology, but I am sure that players with characters who are Vingan
feel that she is, to them at least.
Regards
Rob
- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, Michael Hitchens
<michaelh_at_...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Jimbruce wrote:
>
> > Wish me luck.
>
> You'll need it.
>
> > I'll not continue the Vinga issue here for a bit, though I will be
> > reading, laughing and gritting my teeth in all the usual places.
> >
> > Among the issues still to be explored are:
> >
> > Why can't the Storm Tribe handle women?
>
> Cause they have the maturity level of teenage boys after a
strenuous rugby
> match. As the lock said "I pushed and I pushed and I don't where I
ended
> up - but it was bloody dark".
>
> Except for Humakt of course - he proved his maturity by giving his
family
> the shove.
>
> > What is the nature of the pact between Earth and Storm? What is
the
> > actual myth, and why, on the surface, has Ernalda come out such a
big
> > loser?
>
> See above
>
> > If there was a pure Storm Woman warrior goddess, what would she
look like?
>
> Hairy
>
> > If there was a socially mainstream Earth warrior, what would she
be
> > like? Is the answer to be found in a less misogynistic portrayal
of BB
> > and her kin?
>
> Perhaps
>
> > Can a 70s mythology grow to encompass wider elevance, or does the
> > Lunar Way offer the only hope for the future?
>
> God I hope not.
>
> Michael
>
> ---------
> Dr. Michael Hitchens
> Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing
> Macquarie University
> michaelh_at_...
>