From: Delecti@aol.com
Date: Tue 16 Jul 1996 - 01:34:23 EEST
Sandy writes:
<< 2) stating that Orlanth and his pantheon is utterly different everywhere
that he appears makes it significantly harder to have your PCs travel widely,
as you must re-invent the wheel everywhere they go.>>
James writes:
<<IMO, the point of having different views of the "same" gods is to create a
"more realistic" setting. (Of course, what is "more realistic" depends on who
is defining the term, does it not?) Also, I question the assertion that a GM
must explain everything which is different to the players (and their
characters). One of the best (meaning "most satisfactory both to me and the
players) campaigns I ever ran had the PC's constantly aware they didn't know
what was going on or why NPC's were doing what they did.>>
I was avoiding this as I was not sure what started it (I skipped it or
something). But someone made a comment that got me to thinking (yes, a
momementous occasion) about what James was trying to point out at least on
the areas I pasted above.
A co-worker of mine has a DOOM fixation and has alot of info (i.e. collects
articles, pics,etc) on the people at id and even has a poster in his room
with most of them, from where I have no idea, anyway he seems to know the
id-Sandy, but was suprised to know that he did other things such as
contribute to a game such as RQ and a world like Glorantha (he only plays
computer games, and does not get out much, and "has no life" as he put it).
I know the RQ/Glorantha List/email-Sandy and only thru light interest the
id-Sandy (I actually own a copy of DOOM, but do not really play it) but do
not know the person-Sandy (I have never met him and have not had much in the
way of a non-Gloranthan email conversation).
So the Sandy-god I know is different than my co-workers Sandy-god and
probably has a different view of Sandy-Myth than I do (personally, this guy
has a CD-Rom missing and I do not want to know much of his view<g>).
Scott
aka
Delecti@aol.com
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