From: Simon Hibbs (simonh@msi-uk.com)
Date: Tue 11 Aug 1998 - 15:32:58 EEST
Brian T. Tickler :
>You're asking a lot here...the normal course of action when a
>newcomer brings this up is for various Digest Illuminaries to >pat
themselves on the back, remind each other of how helpful >they are and
how much good they bring to the Glorantha fans, >and say
"Condescending? Why do people keep bringing that >up? We're not
condescending in the least..."
I realy don't think this is the case. I've saw the same kinds of
There are a number of things that realy get up the noses of a lot of
The first is people jumping streight on to the digest and posting their
Second most irritating is people who insist (usualy by implication) that
Third most iritating is people who say that all this fan publication
The digest is part of the small but living, breathing _Gloranthan_
comments since I first joined the digest many years ago, but I never
experienced it myself.
people on the digest, especialy old timers.
own opinions, much of which directly contradicts published sources, and
either implying that it's the way Glorantha is, or that it's is the way
it should be if it isn't. The 'I absolutely have to know what the secret
of the God Learners is, or how do you expect me to be able to run Apple
Lane?' brigade fall into this category.
the RuneQuest X (insert favourite version here) rules are realy
Glorantha, and all the cultural waffle and history everyone else talks
about is just irrelevent fluff.
business, and the decade of unpaid work people have put into Glorantha,
is realy all a waste of time. Nobody with their feet on the ground
should even bother buying any of this amateur stuff. What we realy need
is _yet_another_ warmed over reprint of a 15 year old suplement for a
dead out of date game system, to rejuvenate the hobby.
community as it exists today. That community has hopes and fears, and if
threatened it will defend itself.
We have some of the best conventions in the hobby, the best freeforms in
the hobby, the best amateur publications in the hobby. Now we have one
of the best game designers in the hobby, working on the most innovative
product portfolio, for the publisher of the highest quality games and
supplements in the hobby.
Optimistic? You bet!
Simon Hibbs
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