From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@voyager.co.nz)
Date: Sun 22 Mar 1998 - 01:50:28 EET
Allen Wallace:
PH>>I wouldn't draw any definite Gloranthan conclusions from
>>the wording of the rules.
>Come on now. No matter what is written in this Digest the rule system
>people are playing in has as much to do with game reality as anything
>else. Saying that something is so but not being able to support it in the
>rules system people have to play in is pretty useless. The rules are what
>most people have to base their decisions on. MOst of us don't have access
>to all the data you have.
In terms of making a decision about what is possible in glorantha,
the thematic material comes first. I don't meaning learning all
the subtle nuances in the fortunate succession etc. but reading the
basic stuff to see what the cultures are like.
For instance (albeit admittedly an extreme example), a vast
mago-technical civilization can be constructed on the basis of
the RQ3 sorcery rules yet the people of the west have no such
civilization.
Trotsky:
Me>>They can
>>determine that since the local noon is off-centre then there must be some
>>place where the noon is in the exact centre (remember they would know the
>>noon is at dawn in the far east and at dusk in the far west). From simple
>>trig, they can find out the radius of the sky dome.
>Only if they know how far away the place is where noon is in the exact
>centre. Otherwise they only know the angle, and you need to know the
>length of at least one side to do trig.
You only need two angles and the distance between them.
>Incidentally how (if at all) do you get time zones to work on a flat world?
I never said I believed that glorantha was flat.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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