[Glorantha] Griffin mountain as inspiration

I hope people writing the modern Glorantha products re-read their copy of Griffin Mountain Reprint carefully. The graphics (new ones, I think) are brilliant. The Lunar cavalry, the Tarshite traders (I think) and have a very nice and realistic look going. I especially like the pictures of the citadels, and the floorplans of the same. That's the sort of detail a GM likes to see, and it would be brilliant to have such believable and atmospheric pictures of the cities of Sartar, for instance.

The personalities are interesting, the exotic creatures and locations the very stuff of fantasy, and the playability is just great.

It's no wonder Griffin Mountain is one of the all time classic setting books. Will we ever see the like of it again?

Oh! And relating to the previous discussion. In the griffins treasure there is a 2 point blank truestone (so the 1d6 point basic capacity, like with the crystals seems likely), and the stone on the Windswordd seems to hold about 10 Rune points. The way it works is pretty interesting. The spells in the truestone renew themselves, but very, very slowly. One point per four weeks.

That's another interesting way for truestone to work. What it sounds like is that truestone is alive, as all Stone is said to have been.

        -Adept

Thinker, dreamer and adventurer Received on Tue 20 Dec 2005 - 23:09:17 EET