From: David Cake (dave@starfish.net.au)
Date: Mon 14 Jun 1999 - 11:47:32 EEST
The problem is, after all the confusion has been eliminated about
what is a priest, what is just a guideline, what info was incorrect, the
problem that I was objecting too - the simple problem of scale - remains.
In essence, there are too many W's for my taste.
I will continue to argue my case for the HW mechanics offline.
But what really concerns me is I wonder if what I perceive as a big
flaw, and a major departure from my view of Glorantha (ie every village
tough guy is a superhumanly powerful WWW) may actually be intentional on
Gregs part (every villages toughest guy is able to incarnate heroes, chop
through stone, and perform similar outrageous things). Any comments?
Doyle
>I wasn't talking about reaching the Hero Plane (I use the word Otherworld,
>>personally. YVocabularyMV). I was wondering about what is considered as
>the >standard scale, in HW parlance, for various entities in the Mundane,
>Physical, >'Walk There And Yes I See It Without Being Initiated' plane.
Standard scale for what? I don't think there is a standard scale
for any particular plane EXCEPT when you are talking about specifically
magical abilities for specific people. Perhaps there should be a standard
scale for certain mundane human abilities (a bit like the Pendragon
characteristic limits - you can exceed the limit, but not by simple
training).
Vocabulary wise, Otherworld and Heroplane have different meanings,
as I understand it. Otherworld is a catchall for all the magical levels of
existence, Heroplane is a name for a particular one of those levels of
existence. To enter the Otherworld requires magic, to enter the Heroplane
requires particularly strong magic, to enter the god plane requires even
stronger magic, etc. Greg may not have all the wrinkles in this worked out
yet, but this is my understanding. I know that there is a lot of stuff he
has done on this recently.
>But, what the hell, if the current draft sez it is the way you say, then
>it is the way you say.
My understanding may be dim as any other - in particular, I am not
immune to the common curse of understanding Greg to have said what I wanted
him to say.
Cheers
David
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