Crying Wolfe?

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From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Tue 11 Aug 1998 - 00:48:16 EEST

R. H. Wolfe has a lengthy and exacting list of demands for the upcoming
HW line, no actual suggestions as to how to achieve this, and the
following cheerful expression of support.

> I'll believe it when I see it. Issaries can _intend_ to conquer the
> world, but I wouldn't stake _my_ money on it.

Then I imagine you won't be, then. But if you don't want to support
their efforts in a material fashion, then kindly quit whining,
if-only-ing, and second guessing. If you understand the realities of
the situation as regards RQ/HW/Glorantha economics, then I fail to see
how you can be so critical of the plans tailored to exist within those
realities. Nor do you even bother to suggest an actual alternative
course of action. I find these comparisons with D&D spurious, and
bordering on the offensive. Yup, HW is not going to have a production
schedule to match that of the industry leader (if company bankrupting)
lowest common denominator, schlock-generic-fantasy RPQ, multimedia
extravaganza that it is. Your point?

I think no reasonable person would disagree that the Official Glorantha
base is currently lamentable, will surely get better over the next year
or so, but will likely never get to be the stuff of wet dreams. We can
all either do our best to make the "getting better" as good as it can
reasonably get, or we can sit around on our duffs, bitching about how
_other_ people have dropped the ball on this, and oh-how-much-better it
all should have been. Our choice.

Slan libh, genuine lovers of Glorantha,
Alex.

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