From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Thu 09 Sep 1993 - 11:50:29 EEST
> For a truly non-ancestor cult try Humakt (he does after all represent
> the severance of family ties ...)
I also think of Humakt as the god of divorce and suicide.
> Speaking of Dragon Pass, does anyone play it regularly?
I used to. I would again, given a worthy opponent. Chris Gidlow was too easy to beat, by the end, though he did a great Harrek bear-roar. I still remember his war-cry: "Who's for a gang-bang with a Lunar Saint?" That was the game when I diverted Jar-eel and the Moon Sword Cult to slice up poor Tosti Runefriend ("He's got a big fetish"), the well-known Viz character. When I was playing Argrath, we managed to unfold the Cloak of Darkness atop the Temple of the Reaching Moon on the Full Moon Day -- the most impressive Lunar power-cut I can imagine!
I know David Hall's never played the game -- must challenge him some time. He can even have the Lunars!
We didn't take quite so long as you to play, but that was after gaining a lot of familiarity with the rules.
Now, Nomad Gods I've only played once, and would *love* to play again...
> ... this presents a far more interesting landsacpe than the dreamy grey
> blur that the Gloranthan spirit world is portrayed as.
Yup. The 'official' RuneQuest Spirit Plane is just plain DULL. And shamans aren't able to do many of the real-world shamanic things ("because they're HeroQuests"?). These ideas look like improvements to me.
>> is Clay Luther
> is Steven E Barnes
>>I've been thinking about creating a mailing list dedicated *SOLELY* to >>Gloranthan lore; rules questions and complaints about the magic systems >>would be taboo. It would be more like a place where people would be >>encouraged to spout God-Learner philosophy and to publish Gloranthan >>short stories and remark endless on the connection between Nysalor/ >>Gbaji/Arkat/Ralzakark.
>Please don't bother. Are rules discussions that much of a >problem for you?
>>So, would anyone subscribe to it? :-)
> Yes, because I wouldn't want to be left out of the Glorantha
> discussions. But I would prefer just one list, thank you.
Seconded: I'd subscribe, but I wouldn't write for it. This list is good enough for me.
> And there are Glorantha fans that aren't too keen on RQ anymore...
Seconded.
> Not that there's anything wrong with powergaming per se
Are you sure you're not confusing power games with dominance games? ;-)
Anyway, you're in trouble when I catch up with you, even if you are a Sword of Indrodar while I'm just a humble cow-man (OK, the Sacred Milkman of the Greydogs, but you know what I mean). No pints of Gold Top for you...
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