Re: A sense of scale

From: Keith <keith.nellist_at_hMIYBer_8BUQsMO08kNrEoCgg966AWwgztWPPsEr2fMaMZ6UaYSA2py6WgI9HD>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:57:20 -0000

I like discussions on population densities, analogs to the real world, comparisons with Middle Earth, and all manner of Gloranthan discourse. My 1:72 scale comment was really making the point that it is useful to get a sense of how big things are. Jeff has done it by comparing the Lunar Empire with real Earth Empires. I did it for myself using a 1:72 scale to help me work out how big the Green Dragon is (very big)the Mother of Monsters (not so big) the Block, Big Rubble etc. In my head, I'm planning to make a scale model of the Caves of Chaos, which are really rather large.

There *are* things in Glorantha that make sense if you imagine it to be really small - Giant insects, giants like Gonn Orta, things like the Faceless Statue, hungry Jack as a pumpkin. Other things make sense if you imagine a table top game with some improvised game tokens - the chess piece defenders of the cradle, the D6 that flys in from the edge of the cosmos to knock down the Devil and become a landscape feature in Nomad Gods.

Keith

Pomeroi>
> you take the words right out of my mouth. Why do we really have to talk
> about this? Next we will be discussing census data again. How many
> people can we have here, and what is a sensibel ratio of this being
> warriors, given we have 15 sheep per man?
> In fact in RW these figures DO give a hint. But we are not in RW! If I
> were as much interested in comparisons of RW vs. Glorantha as most
> (some?) people are here, I wouldn't care for Glorantha at all, because I
> DO HAVE Earth. You are born with a small mind, if you suggest logic and
> RW parallels do/should work in Glorantha.
> I dearly hope they don't!!! And in my Glorantha they don't. And I
> daresay, in Greg's neither! This is the whole idea of Glorantha!!
>
> Most of the time I am just an onlooker in this group, contributing
> little, but draining lots of ideas from here. Keith's "Music is the
> Weapon" thread, THAT is the stuff we need more.
>
> My 2 cents to separate the wheat from the chaff.
> Sorry, don't want to affront s.o., but needed to release some steam.
>
> Pomeroi
>