Frankly, I'm more concerned with Gloranthan 'offline' gaming. The publishing silence is complete, and even Jeff has stopped announcing SMJR vapourware. If things were grim two years ago, now they're as bad as they ever have been, or at least since the early nineties. And the rather clumsy attempts to centralise power and authority have seen a lot of community creativity drifting away over the last three or four years. In the early nineties at least we had RMM and the Digest, and people were actively expanding Greg's vision and rendering it playable. There was humour and emotion in Gloranthan writing, and we had an open gaming ethic that didn't depend on poo faced 'official' student essays and deep if unreadable (well at least unreadable) mythological treatises that seem to follow a cookie cutter patterning.
What hope, what hero? Fanzines. PDF publishing. Go Chaos Society. Go Hearts.
And if we ever build the community again, perhaps we can face the biggest challenge of all: Glorantha is dying under the weight of way too much low quality, poorly written background and an utter exhaustion of new ideas.
Discuss. Cuss. Whatever ....
Dimjim, son of Jimbob, son of Jimbruce the Flatulent
with GAt 09:48 PM 28/02/2009, you wrote:
>Errr does anyone know if Greg or anyone is doing anything serious
>about Glorantha online gaming, or is it the usual "I've got my finger
>up my arse, and will only start to get involved in it it when it's
>far too late" crap ???
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