From: Andreas Mueller (mueller@faw.uni-ulm.de)
Date: Thu 27 Apr 2000 - 15:18:22 EEST
> Benedict asks:
> >My understanding was that Glorantha has moved from the first mode to
> >Perhaps Martin could clarify. Will SGU describe the Lunar Empire, its
> >cults and the Red Emperor as they REALLY ARE, or will it be in the
> >form of descriptions or beliefs held by Gloranthans themselves?
And Martin answers:
[snip: Sections on Government, Cults, military, economy are objective
and hard facts, Sections of Lunar self-belief and culture are
subjective]
This is _really_ the way I wished it to happen. Naturally enough should
the cultural section be subjective, but the rest is better off
objective. And also if it would be ambigous, you had to decide what's
the truth in your game. It's better to get the official truth and _then_
you can deliberately ignore it. IMO the speculative stuff was a fannish
surrogate for lacking official facts. The ambigious way is very
efficient to avoid official contradiction and in fact, if they are
ambigious enough, they could be reengineered to fit into the official
"truth".
> >the second mode.
>
> Not really. Gregs volumes did, but as MOB pointed out, they are largely
> unplayable because they are Gloranthan documents, not game suppliments.
> We're doing a suppliment.
- -..
> >However, if SGU is in the first mode, we seem to be regressing to RQ2
> >God Learner stuff. Strange.
>
> Monomyth you mean? I think published sources should attempt to steer a path
> between the two.
And once again: Official facts in official supplements are bitterly
needed. The reader has always the option to skip parts he doesn't like
and make it up on his own. But if you don't know what to choose, you
have no choice!
I will personally stick with the RM-stuff, if official supplements in
the future will contradict, since I can't change deliberately my
campaign who's running for quite a time. And one final word: Did I
interpret the statements of MOB right: Sun County is discarded as not
true? If this is true, that's a shame (without wanting to stir up the
feelings of the RM-supporters further)
cu
Andreas
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