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> --- Michael Hitchens <michaelh_at_1UyBkhj_7dL6I48zJN2uFS9xlDlfxHY7XXCRHeMEbTrg9DhzYoyMbOyIks3P6lWAduSawPmXk3yZgGyJ_6rw.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>> A nice idea, but really what would be core beside
>> the publications of
>> Chaosium/Issaries/Moon design/ Mongoose? With older
>> ones being excised by newer ones.
>
> Mmm.... some of those might get left out, where
> they're rules or scenarios, not background. Or where
> they're OOP. And I'd forgotten about Mongoose.
Rules only stuff are definitely out. I remember Greg saying something (apologies if my memoy is shot) about the Mongoose stuff being factually correct about Glorantha but not in how the rules represent it. You can't just leave the sceanrios out though - remember the sky ship says (p.66) "The Sky ship details one of the great events of history ... A great event is an event that *will* occur in Glorantha".
Other examples of definitive information from scenarios is that Kalf Garstallson is the chief of the Orlmarth just after the Fimbulwinter (not to mention the tale of what happened to the Orlmarth and Hiord a generation before that), the maps of third bridge Latifundia and Apple Lane in Gathering Thunder and so on. That stuff has to be regarded as "core" Glorantha. Change if you wsh (YGWV) but acknowledge that you are changing, you can;t just ignore.
>> You can't include any of the fanzine material,
>> even things
>> like Unspoken Word, because availability is too
>> problematic.
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> If they're available on-line, there's no longer a
> problem. Same situation as all the rest. No reason to
> make a distinction between fanzine and non-fanzine
> that I can see: if it's available, and is the
> generally used source of info for its setting, then
> it's core. Clashes with it, when anyone playing in
> that setting will be using it, will be a problem.
Which ones are available? I'd like to improve my collection. But to me the difference between core and GaG to me is Greg-approval. To me that's implicit in the officialy published stuff but not in the fanzines. Does Greg count the stuff he's written for fanzines as core, let alone all the rest? And I certainly don't want to ask Greg to go through that mountain of material, defining what is and isn't correct. So again we gtet back to the core being what you could call the "commercially" published material. The fanzines would have a lot of GaG but very little, if any, core.
Michael
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