From: Josh Shaw (joshaw@slip.net)
Date: Tue 17 Sep 1996 - 21:26:31 EEST
At 12:02 PM 9/13/96 -0400, Paul2.Harmaty wrote:
>I have terrible eyesight and I am not alone. Poor vision is not tied to a
>character's sex. Don't we assume that all our character's have perfect
vision? >I certainly do! Why complicate my life or my players' lives by
having some of >them arbitrarily have poor vision? Wouldn't that add drama?
Henrik can't use a >bow, he's nearly blind past 10 yards! There's some real
life drama we find easy
>to live without.
But they both have the same easy answer: "Modern Medicine"
In the dim past of Glorantha, perhaps right after the dawn, women had to
suffer horribly in childbirth and many of them died. Likewise, many people
were born with poor eyesight, "diabetes" (Someone else can come up with a
proper Gloranthan name for it) and other sad conditions.
However, through continual heroquesting, in the modern world, these problems
have been solved. Every village midwife knows the spells for easing labor
and preventing complications, though in some cases, either with severe
complications or attacks by spirits and professional healer or shaman may
have to be called in to consult. Likewise, problems in sight or health are
usually diagnosed early in a childs life and, being well understood, pose no
significant problems for the village healer. Again, there are occasional
situations where for some reason medical intervention fails or conditions
caused by curses to strong for the local healer to break, but these are
fortunately rare. Only the very poorest of the poor (and some professional
beggars) are unable to take advantage of these services.
Thus the famous expression: "Better Living Through Heroquesting"
- ------ Josh
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