>
> --- Jeff Richard <richaje_at_ZvZyEtl3aoFFnr4Rwfla91556vNE68HIFHCEOrEt6ym-6FWN4xkZbXDHgebsLhumwqKxGuDfgg.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Other examples of definitive information from
>> scenarios is that Kalf
>>> Garstallson is the chief of the Orlmarth just
>> after the Fimbulwinter...
>
> Jeff:
>> Actually that is a very bad example. Originally
>> that scenario was
>> supposed to take place in Old Tarsh near the marsh.
>> Steve, for
>> reasons better left to his own, placed the scenario
>> in the Colymarlands.
>
> In that case that's an excellent example of a Problem:
> thanks, Jeff.
>
> The whole point of labelling some bits as "core
> Glorantha" is that they're the things that, if you
> clash with them, will cause people problems. People
> will have read that scenario, not known it was meant
> to be elsewhere, and used it as written. So, like it
> or not, unless Errata came out soon afterwards, Kalf
> Garstallson is the chief of the Orlmarth just after
> the Fimbulwinter, and there is nothing anyone can do
> about it. If in your Glorantha, he is not, then YGDV
> and so on.
>
> In this case it's a minor point: easy enough to move a
> village or rename an NPC. But as an example of the
> principle, it's good. What the author intended is
> irrelevant. What's in use by the paying customers is
> what's in the book, whether that's the name of an
> obscure chief or the gender of a goddess.
Hear Hear. The value in this discussion is in establishing the "varies from what?" in "Your Glorantha will vary"
Michael
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