Re: Generally Accepted Glorantha (GAG) , Core Glorantha

From: Michael Hitchens <michaelh_at_IYPxmM234b0LatYU80kHI3qOSoMr7_tA1luRKIOdalnufkLAcanPwTmKvnwdl-MNMQZ>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:10:25 +1000 (EST)


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jane Williams wrote:

>
> --- David Dunham <david_at_EgRawIAIMqBV_GtAp6r36Af29XuPE8H4rMgzmljhZ6Hf1HJOtL8GkQK3xm0AYkkkYJoSrb34Fw.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Jane
>>
>> As I was skimming, I was half-seriously going to
>> propose that the
>> only reasonable standard would be King of Dragon
>> Pass, because
>> 1) it's the only Glorantha product accessible to
>> non-fans
>
> Don't understand. If anything, it's harder to get than
> the HQ books.
>
>> Ducks
>>> having cigars is part of GaG, but a Glorantha where
>>> they didn't smoke wouldn't be a problem in
>> discussion.
>>
>> Then I got to this and, you know, I think GAG must
>> mean what Jane agrees Glorantha is.
>
> Er, no. Definitely not.
>
>> For example, I don't recall ever running into a
>> cigar-smoking duck in any Seattle Farmers Collective
>> game.
>
> And you probably won't in anything I write, either, I
> don't like the idea. But others do. Wasn't it the
> famous Sandy quote? "Of course ducks have teeth - how
> else would they hold their cigars?" And the John
> Hughes version of ducks gives them all cigar magic.
> You start reading up Ducks, you find next to nothing
> in Core, and a lot of cigars and bad puns based on
> comic strips in GaG. I don't like either, but I'm
> stuck with them.

Maybe, maybe not. Core is fluid (viscuous?). GaG even more fluid.

Michael



Dr. Michael Hitchens
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