From: Geoff Gunner (eosgg@raesp-farn.mod.uk)
Date: Sat 06 Nov 1993 - 13:19:49 EET
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 19:05:17 GMT
From: eosgg@raesp-farn.mod.uk (Geoff Gunner )
Message-Id: <9311051905.AA08283@raesp-farn.mod.uk>
To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM
Re: Dwarfish Infravision.
Sandy's idea of infravison being organically located in the skin - yeurrchh. All those dwarfs, running around naked ? (except for the beard, of course). Though that means if they wear armour they loose it, so necessitating light.Which makes adventuring down a dwarf hole a lot easier (apart from the low ceilings). You could have infravision being as per the 'pit viper's; a pair of pits (proto-eyes) sensitive to thermal radiation, which also gives you the benefit of directional infra-vision. Perhaps the dwarf's nostrils double as these pits ? ("Those dwarfs, always looking down their noses at us ..."). You need never fear a dwarf with a head-cold again.
re: female Storm-bull worshippers - An analogy with Bikers. perhaps ?
Loved the stuff on Darktongue from Paul - add to it they're great singers. Knock the spots of most humans. Imagine the suprise when this hulking smelly toll opens it's mouth, and a beautiful clear soprano emerging. I can see it now - the massed ranks of the Zorak Zoran Evangelical choir...
Re: Sam's Ducks.
WE've got a lake as well with ducks on it, yea, even beavers (who made the
lake !). And do the party hate the ducks ? Do Uroxi get angry ? For six years these ducks have been sheltering inside a 'cursed valley' away from human
oppression and general nastiness towards ducks. How would *you* behave if
a group of humans started messing aroung in _YOUR_ cursed valley ? Okay, the
humans were better at threatening, but you aren't going to love your oppressors
for a long, long time. And their time has come. The stupid human settlers
are running out of food for the winter, so the ducks can sit back and watch with
pleasure. 'Any food <quack> ? No, the mice ate it all ! <quack>'.
I love ducks. A creature *that* cynical, *that* depressed, *that* obnoxious is a boon to every fun-loving referee the world over.
Geoff. 'A duck a day makes the party go grey.'
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