From: RobStoll@aol.com
Date: Wed 31 Jul 1996 - 00:50:37 EEST
David Cake said:
> * the use of the phrase 'peasants and livestock' comes from Cerebus, High
> Society. Has anyone else thought of using Cerebus for a source for
> Gloranthan stuff? I think my Yelmic campaign will drawn on it fairly
> heavily for inspiration, High Society and Church and State at any rate.
Actually, I was going to work up a short Aardvark scenario, which involves a
group of hearty warriors going on a raid for the Earth Pig Mother
priestess/shaman to steal eggs from a Trollish Gorakiki-Termite mound. I
might have a runnable game for RQ Con Chicago, but I'm not positive - Chaos
is taking over my life again, so I'll have to wait and see...
RQ stats for Cerebus-like Aardvarks appear in an article called "Aardvarks in
Fantasy Gaming: When Strikes an Earth Pig Born!" by Paul Jaquays (*). The
article appeared in the November/December 1979 issue of the Judge's Guild
magazine "The Dungeoneer" ("The Number One GM Fanzine" *sigh* those were the
days), which was a big RQ special issue. Paul's stats were fine, but he
provided no cultural context for Aardvarks (as there is for Ducks, Aldryami,
etc.), said they worship no gods, and use no magic. Feh. Not in my Glorantha.
The scenario idea I mention above is the easy part of what I intend to do,
the hard thing is to do a write-up for Aardvark background and cults (Tarim?
erm, maybe. The Earth Pig Mother? YES!).
(*) This article appears right after Paul's review of "Snakepipe Hollow".
There is also a cult write-up for Uleria by Steve Marsh, a short RQ scenario
called "Stand and Hold" by Robert K. Bingham, and a description of three
different critters by Greg Stafford. Do I win a special mention for
obscure/OOP RQ source referencing? :)
robert
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