From: Loren Miller (loren@wharton.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu 01 Oct 1998 - 21:00:39 EEST
David Cake <dave@starfish.net.au> spreads oil on the waters:
> Actually, I imagine in the Hero Wars era you will be absolutely as
> welcome to post RuneQuest rules suggestions here as you are now (that is,
> of course you are welcome providing it is a question that is more
> appropriately discussed here than on the RQ-Rules list)
This is what I understand too. The first time I ever heard of any official
"disapproval" of RQ rules being posted to the Glorantha Digest was in Brian
Tickler's leading question and Shannon's reply. Sure, Chaosium doesn't own
> It was my understanding that the transfer of the Glorantha Digest
> to Chaosiums server occurred largely due to problems with Lorens former
> server, and that the Glorantha Digest had separated from the Runequest
> forums (rq-rules at that point) some time before, and that both had been
> going strong.
Exactly true. Remember the history. First Andrew Bell started "The RuneQuest
Digest", which was full of edited articles much along the lines of a purely
electronic version of TotRM. Then Henk Langeveld took over the Digest and
added an unmoderated version called "The RuneQuest Daily", that bundled up
and sent out all the messages in a day. Henk expressed interest in letting
someone else take over the list, and I did, and when I did I read the
handwriting on the wall. It was clear that RuneQuest and Glorantha were on
opposite sides of an unbridgeable, rapidly widening chasm. So I split up the
RuneQuest Daily into the Glorantha Digest, for primarily lozengial content,
and the RuneQuest Rules list and digest, for primarily rules content and
also for Alternative Earth and other gameworld content. There have been
various attempts to create moderated forums based on all that traffic,
successfully on the web, unsuccessfully in mailing lists. It has been about
5 or 6 years since Glorantha and RuneQuest were severed at the mailing list
level. It's not a new thing. Also note that when I had to shut down the
mailing lists two years back, Shannon took over ownership of the Glorantha
Digest within a week, but it took about a year for Tal Meta to offer to
start up a new RuneQuest Rules list. It is a tribute to Tal Meta (thanks
Aaron) that his list has done as well as it has, primarily because he's
posting RQ cults for most of the Greyhawk deities.
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Loren Miller <loren@wharton.upenn.edu>
"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they
will surely become worms." --Henry Miller, _The Colossus of Maroussi_
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