From: TTrotsky@aol.com
Date: Sat 20 Mar 1999 - 02:49:03 EET
Ken Winland:
<< Discussing this point with another Digest member, I got the feeling that
The artwork for Sun County and River of Cradles looked pretty much
Glorantha was subtly moving away from a Bronze Age setting.
Is this the case?
In the RQII book and the original supps, you really got the feeling of a late
BA/ early Iron Age setting. True, some of the illustrations in "Pavis" look a
little too High Medieval... <g> I never saw the later AH RQ supplements, so I
do not know if the setting was changing in subtle ways.>>
bronze age to me, although the colour covers show some iron armour etc. (or it
could be silver plating or some such). However, I think the general late
bronze age/early iron age atmosphere is still deemed accurate - so long as you
remain in central Genertela. The Westerners are generally depicted as
medieval, and that's the atmosphere I'd go for when running something in
Ralios or Loskalm. Elsewhere I'm less sure about; some parts are probably
bronze age/iron age, while others may be more (or less) sophisticated.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
Has anyone else found this to be true or false? One of my attractions to
Glorantha as a setting was its very BA feel, which was/is unique among game
settings (aside from some of the GURPS historical supplements).
Ken
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