From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Sun 04 Aug 1996 - 08:06:35 EEST
One thing I've always liked about RQ/Glorantha was precisely the very
I've also played in a game where each PC was a rather weird
That's not a distortion, IMO, of Gloranthan roleplaying. Some of the
different levels of play available. I've run a game that began with
the PCs as RQ3 16-year-olds, with no magic and all their skills at
their base percentages.
heroquester, in which as a group we could and did take on demigods in
combat.
old Chaosium house campaigns also operated at that level, as far as we
outsiders can tell. PCs came close to conquering kingdoms, visited
stars, and so forth. At least one of the characters who summoned the
Brown dragon was a PC, right?
A Sword of Humakt with some divine magic doesn't strike me as "high
powered".
Peter Metcalfe:
>I think the Priest would _interpret_ Yelm's reply 'that I did permit
>the Storm King to live' with the perfectly reasonable assumption that
>the said Storm King and his worshippers must live with the Law as
>spoken of by Yelm and if they show any signs of rebelling then they
>must be subdued. This is more MGF than the simple 'Priestly Lie'
>theory IMHO and I think a divination to Yelm would actually confirm
>the priest's beliefs.
I agree with this, Peter. Much better and more fun than my version.
>Why do you believe the Orlanthi have a monopoly on the truth and so
>all other religions must be founded on a lie if they do not acknowlege
>that Orlanth is the King of Gods?
This is perhaps a bit confrontational.
What I meant was that *in that case and for that one argument* I was
assuming that the Orlanthi version was basically correct. As I posted
at the time, I am prejudiced against hierarchial religions with formal
dogma. (I think this has something to do with my hero-worship of
Galileo as a younger person.) So when the argument is between Yelm
and Orlanth, I will tend to portray Yelm-worshippers (if not Yelm
himself) as lying despots. I'm not claiming that's true in all
Gloranthas, it's just how I perceive religious tyrants.
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