> YGWV
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Colin <colin_at_FzdeQl5oLxtY3-rTO8JYMSMi3LBZhvPABAKSSfSFgar_QYUQ6R03H3r998l2uYooEdlzuu_6FAbuL7EwLLEGjs9Toqc6BdXThA.yahoo.invalid
> >wrote:
>
> > I mean, seriously, we're playing a game where the GM portrays all manner
> of
> > strange and unusual beings and individuals of any and all genders and
> > outlooks. A game of make believe in a setting deep and rich with all the
> > great variety of the Real World. I suppose I can understand why some
> people
> > might be uncomfortable, but my experience has never been of that sort.
> Maybe
> > I'm just lucky. Then again, I'm also new to Gloranthan fandom.
> >
>
> Lucky you! for two reasons.
> 1. Welcome to Glorantha!!
> 2. You missed the traumatic impact of this revelation that apparently
> struck
> some people, and the agonized and unnecessary friction that subsequently
> arises every time I bring up the radical extremes that many cults hold.
> I've
> seen it done so far with Humakt and Vinga, in big ways. Hence, I am always
> cautious.
>
I confess I missed it as well. I remember "Nandan the Birthing Man" being
mentioned at one of the Leicester conventions and generally thinking it was
a cool enough but hugely obscure bit of magic, and then when Thunder rebels
came out (s)he seemed to have lost his one distinctive magic. Which I always
thought a bit of a shame.
The mistake, if people were really reacting badly against him (or her), is ever the belief that because there's a God then there are worshippers. In my Glorantha there's a means of performaing the Male Pregnancy feat, but it's documented only in three obscure scraps of parchement at the bottom of different stacks in jonstown library and remembered by a mad old women who happens to have a willy, the sole Nandan Devotee in Kerofinela.
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