[Glorantha] Wrong rules?

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Sun Sep 17 11:00:39 2006

> > From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20@yahoo.co.uk>
> > And that's why I say you're using the wrong
> rule-set.
> > Go over to HOTT and call them Flyers. Or possibly
> > Aerial Hero.
>
> No I'm not. I'm not using HOTT because it's too
> simple and limiting.

But it has Flyers - and no limits that I'm aware of. And any rule-set that won't let you call Storm Walkers Flyers is just Wrong.  

> I use "De Bellis Fantasticus - Here There Be Dragons
> II"
>
> A _fantasy_ variant of DBM that deals with several
> sorts of magic units of
> various power levels, undead, demons, winged
> humanoids, flyers (like
> griffins, possibly with riders), flying Behemoths,
> flying vehicles, giant
> humanoids (trolls), and so on...

Sounds good, though probably too "crunchy" for my taste. I haven't seen it on sale, though - do you know of an on-line source?

But in that case....

> And when writing the post I had totally forgotten
> that the Storm Walkers fly into battle. D'oh!

Ah! How on earth/the lozenge did you forget the most important fact about them?? Too busy drowning in ten billion troop types and brackets?

> Magic is pretty Conan-esque too.

Not sure what you mean by "Conan-esque", but magic in HOTT is abstract: it's up to you to assign the appropriate troop type and colourful description. "Magician" isn't always right when almost all your troops use magic, you need to look at the effect and map that to numbers. So for instance the only unit I have classified as "artillery" are actually using javelins. Mile Throw Javelins. It's rather like using HQ: that "+2 augment" is simple mechanically, but the narration that makes it fun is up to you.                 

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