Re: Glorantha digest, Vol 9 #299 - 4 msgs

> >At the same time I can imagine
> >the Lunar Colleges of magic deliberately experimenting in a systematic
> >way to improve quests. That is unusual, not because of anything
> >inherent in magic, but because only the Lunar empire has the resources
> >to do such experiments and also recover from the inevitable mistakes.
>
> I think this is so too, which is one of the reason that they are so scary
> to most people.

Isn't this what got the God Learners into all sorts of trouble?

I'd imagine that HeroQuests are highly personal in many ways, so it may well be very difficult to 'standardize' HQ's, since the Godplanes are viewed by someone's own cultural and imaginative filters so much.

"A leader gets power from followers.
"Violence is always an option."
"A good man does all things well"
"Mistakes are made, and fixed."

Proverbs of Orlanth, King of the Storm Gods Chris Bell
coridan@optonline.net
argrath@agoron.com

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End of Glorantha Digest Received on Tue Dec 31 05:37:23 2002