Re: Insight Contests in the third age (SPOILER)

From: Greg Stafford <glorantha1_at_3dhAxrrRIiCm_JUuVzSxKxzc2Np7gMTgBilDGQaUf8uRVzVLBNmBlWshF7zkqYhyt>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:58:44 -0700

YGWV On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM, <hcarteau_at_JMGv7FOKluUdgTkfIHXGW2SYxklivCY99e6iNisIlV8-6TODWV-cj6QTF7Ps-2enmCmueCO-1MPt.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> Selon Jeff <richaje_at_Wdbd16N5qVG7DFuFxVLnAu82LdAJKecmEOk0tNsrzbRA69aWZqFTGw4zIX0vvaBYOh4X3PURMp8-.yahoo.invalid>:
> >
> > (snip) in the Third Age, nobody has access to the original Abiding Book
> and
> many schools and sects are the heirs to revelations and grimoires that
> cannot be
> debated. As a result Insight Contests are of great use between schools that
> more
> or less share the same core scripts.
>
> /// Hm, that's what I was afraid of. "Logic and Reason" only apply if you
> share
> the (more or less) same Church. There's no point in arguing over the finer
> points of the meaning of life with heretics.
>

That is correct. But...

>
> HERE COMES THE SPOILER NOW. Go away, Eric.
>
> Well, how then do I stop a full-fledged bloodbath from occuring in Fay Jee
> between the rokari and (nearly) everybody else ?

Heroquest, obviously.
Discover the finalization ritual, get them to participate in it, and last heir beliefs to hell.

Yea, as if PCs would risk that!

-- 
Greg Stafford
Game Designer


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