Re: New Elf Member

From: Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:05:59 -0700 (PDT)


Giles, being sensitively sensible (are you English?):

> Perhaps someone would care to point him in the
> direction of a nice concise explanation of where
> what and how is Glorantha and KODP.

Right.

King of Dragon Pass is a computer game played in the mythic setting of the world of Glorantha. Glorantha was originally developed with the rule systems known as Runequest, but has migrated away from that rule system to one called HeroWars (soon to be renamed HeroQuest). The world has a huge amnount of mythic detail associated with it. This amount of detai lets player play almost any sort of person in great detail.  For example, you can play (and be entertained by playing) a dirt-poor farmer in a clan of hill barbarians. This clan would need to annually renew the powerful magics that let them grow their grain, fend off their enemies, find good hunting, keep their cows healthy, etc. This depth gave rise to a particular campaign where the player played this sort of nitty gritty style, using some supplemental rules they put together. Most of the rest of us were enthralled by this development. A company called A# (that's A-sharp, the note) put together a marvellously novel game that lets you play the clan council of such a clan of hill barbarians, located in the geographically central area called Dragon Pass, in an era some time after Dragons have eaten all the humans there. It has a feel something like Vikings colonizing a land frontier.

Links:  

http://www.glorantha.com/library/elder/intro-elder.html#aldryami for information abot what elves are _really_ like.

  http://www.glorantha.com/
for lots of information on the world of Glorantha.

  http://www.a-sharp.com/kodp/
for some information on King of Dragon Pass.

  http://www.celtic-webs.com/theunspokenword/ for a few fan print-publications.

  http://www.btinternet.com/~Nick_Brooke/ for a taste of the depth added by fan web-publication of supplementary materials.



Chris Lemens

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