GAC campaign Mark. Not Barbarian Adventures (cattle raiding, clan
deud), GAC (deciding the fate of the Lunar Empire and Sartar). Stats
for Harrek are germane. Read the Gwandor Saga to see your friendly
superhero's in action. I bet Martin and Wesley made up stats for
those guys.
Let us have our candy! :^)
Regards
Rob
- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mark Galeotti"
<markgaleotti_at_...> wrote:
>
> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "L.Castellucci"
> <lightcastle_at_> wrote:
> >
> > I'm confused. You decided to keep unknown things unkown so that
> when someone
> > came along to try and write them, you could do so right away,
which
> would
> > then make the unknown known - contradicting your stated policy?
> >
> > *grin*
> >
> > LC
> >
> > On August 20, 2007 05:07 pm, Mark Galeotti wrote:
> > > One of my great beliefs when I was MD's Acquisitions Tsar was
> > > precisely to keep what did not need to be known or what could
not
> be
> > > fleshed out properly, unknown. Not as part of some malign plot
> > > against the buying punter, but to ensure that when someone comes
> > > along with some great new take on some region, hero, conflict or
> > > faith, we can commission them straight away, without (a)
telling
> them
> > > that they had to change their ideas to conform with canon or (b)
> > > deliberately rewriting canon and causing the consequent dismay.
>
> The key phrase is _fleshed out properly_. Someone wants to write a
> book based around penetrating Harrek's wolf pirates and freeing
> prisoners, then including a full write-up of Harrek and his stats
> might well be entirely appropriate and germane. But if, say, Jeff K
> had wanted to use the fact that there was a rumour on p50 of BOG
that
> Harrek was about as an excuse to include a one-paragraph summary of
> his stats, I wouldn't have passed that because it was neither
> necessary nor a proper treatment. (That's just an example: Jeff's a
> pro and wouldn't have tried anything like this)
>
> All the best
>
> Mark
>