From: Thomas Gottschall (Bloodtooth@gmx.net)
Date: Sun 21 Dec 1997 - 14:44:19 EET
Hi everyone,
first I want to congratulate Nick for his posting in digest #290.
Peter Maranci :
> Second: some of the responses to recent complaints about
> the state
> of the Digest and RQ are perfect examples of how to drive away
> players.
> Flaming people for saying that they feel that the fun has been taken
> out
> of Glorantha is not helpful, and will not bring in new converts.
Since I had no time to read the Digest last month intensive (army) I can
only say that when I started to contribute to the GD the people were
always nice to me. But I have also seen others offended, so please could
we return to the good old times when everyone was still nice and
friendly ? Is it really that hard to accept and tolerate others'
opinions even if they are crap in your own eyes ? Yes, I know there are
some postings here who annoy you or me but we can handly it in an adult
manner, can't we ?
> Several people have
> written to me since my first post, telling me that they feel the same
> --
> not only is the Digest unfriendly, but it's *useless* to them as
> gamers.
> Many of us know old-time RQers who've given up on Glorantha, but how
> many new RQ/Glorantha gamers do you know?
I am a rather new one (3 year of RQ). So the players see the Digest as
useless? I must say that the Digest is for me the best source for
material when I am writting an adventure (as GM) or just a story. Where
else can you ask how *this* or *that* was ? And where else do you get so
much opinions ? I for example don't send my stories and material to the
digest because that's what my homepage is for. I only send something
topic-free when I think that the quality is high enough and that it can
stand the looks of some hundred Gloranthaphiles.
> It has been suggested before that there could be two lists.
> One
> could be the "scholarly" list, devoted to Glorantha as a literary
> creation
> and philosophical exercise. The other would be for those who simply
> want
> to have fun and share specifically game-related ideas.
I think this is a bad idea. Let's just say those who want to publish
their works here are free to do it. I wonder this seems prohibited to
someone. It's always nice to read a fresh adventure hook between the
scholary discussions.
> If we could reach a consensus here or on a new Gloranthan
> roleplaying digest, we might even agree to all post one new NPC in one
>
> month, and a new scenario in the next. How about it?
Please, don't force us to do work we don't like to. If I make up an NPC
and think that it would be good to send it to the Digest I do it. But I
don't want be forced to do them. So if someone has a part of Glorantha
that he always wanted to present to us, give it a try !
- --
bye, Thomas
Email : Bloodtooth@gmx.net
Homepage Telmori's Forest :
http://home.pages.de/~Telmori's.Forest/
"And though Argrath slay us to the last cub the wolves shall run to see
him fall" last line of the Wolfrunner's song
------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 13 Jun 2003 - 22:24:46 EEST