[Glorantha] WoG - list, my take

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Wed Jul 4 20:00:07 2007

> Personally I'm happy of the existence of the WoG
> list. Having a list that
> Greg reads and comments on has been a great boon,
> and only intensified my
> love affair with Glorantha.

So what was wrong with him using the existing lists? Like, say, this one?  

> The people who get jealous and possessive about
> their own contributions
> should, I think, re-think the issue a bit.

I'm not aware that anyone is. Well, apart from Greg.

> I wonder what it is with Glorantha that creates this
> problem? I don't
> think fans of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' get hissy
> with George R.R. Martin
> when his books don't turn out like they would
> prefer,

I'm not familiar enough with that series to invent examples based on it, so let's pick one that I expect we all know. Suppose that Tolkein had published the Hobbit, and the first volume of LotR, and everyone had loved it. And then he had published the next volume, and decided in the meantime that it would be more fun if Frodo was female, Mirkwood didn't actually have spiders in at all, and Boromir was an intellectual? And when questioned, said that he refused to have his creativity stifled by mere consistency? Don't you think people might have said a few rude things? That's without having a decade gap in which the memory of his books was only kept alive by other people writing and creating in the same universe, and getting the consistency *right*.

Sure, Glorantha was originally Greg's invention. So what? Inconsistent garbage is still inconsistent garbage, and being told that it doesn't matter because what was publically released was only a dumbed-down version for the ignorant and unwashed masses is no way to sell a product.

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