-KevinMcD (Who has forgotten more about Glorantha than Peter knows - and it proves it daily.)
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:53 AM, newtiswrong <mrnewt_at_3FeoMmoO9iUDZK3RMFNP7FmtLiI5C-mmLm-_UPJOeS-TWmkDsumpfHLpS_zyghVZDKlltISWQNzy5Y8.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> One thing that really upsets me about the current state of Glorantha, is
> the depiction of Beards in Dara Happa.
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> It has no basis in fact and overall the length of them just rubbs my goat.
> Certain things worry me, and make me feel inadequate about portraying Dara
> Happan beards in my games. For example are there jewellers who sell beard
> rings? As for the possible existance of magical rune beard rings, well you
> can see my dilema. I might be able to gloss over it in a convention game,
> where I'm never going to see the players again and embarrassment is not an
> issue, but not in my ongoing home campaign where my sharp and perceptive
> players would pull me up about it.
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> What about Dara Happan women and beards? Do they have them? If they do they
> shave them. Do we make assumptions based upon real world cultures? If this
> is the case are the published sources based upon the experiences of the
> authors here? I am not implying here that the women of the author's
> aqquanitance are bearded, just that being western white males to a man it is
> probably culturally true that should a woman of that culture see but a
> whisker of hair and out comes the razor. While somepeople may feel that this
> touches on uncomfatable gender issues, I feel that we must be brave and seek
> the answers and not just 'fudge it' like we did with the "Do Dwarf women
> have beards" issue (answer no, because in Glorantha there are no Dwarf women
> : ref: Dwarfs - Guide to the Mostali, Mongoose Publishing 1969 Prof Lawrence
> Witaker).
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> I thought this would be the most appropriate list to post on, because the
> World of Glorantha list is full of people who don't like me and make me feel
> inaddequate. You lot seem nice and friendly (and are much clever to boot) :)
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> Love and Lollipops
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> :P NEWT
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