Mostly Illumination

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From: Allan Henderson (allan@tcrystal.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 12 Nov 1993 - 15:56:09 EET


re Inconsistencies

I totally agree with Rich about the inconsitencies in Sandy and Gregs work. I have trouble keeping my games consistent from one month to the next never mind over fifteen years. Sure it would be nice if things were more consistent but Glorantha is now very big and even those who wrote most of the stuff probably can't remember it all.

re Illumination

I really like all the stuff that Ed Wallman wrote on things that could illuminate people, I also read with interest the thoughts of Nick Brooke. I have given illumination some thought myself and have decided that illumination may be more common than we think. If you are illuminated then you no longer fear chaos, but you don't necesserilly go out and join Vivamort either. In fact illumination can have no effect on your outlook on life at all, eg that Chaos lover Arkat was illuminated as a boy.

When Greg says that a large proportion of the population is illuminated in Glamour then I say yeah sure maybe 25% but of those only a small proportion will embrace Chaos or go out to spread the word. The rest will get on with their lives but in a much more philosophical way. eg a village of illuminates is attacked by broos it fights back and kills them all, the difference between this and any other village that kills broos is that they don't feel self righteous about it afterwards.

While non-chaos benifits from illumination by a removal of fear the real benefit to the Lunar Empire would be the illumination and integration into the army of more managable chaos troops, but how do you take illumination to feral broos, or scorpion men. Writing slogans on walls will not work here, nor will walking up and saying "Hi we really like you chaos scorpion men" and then trying to engage them in intelligent debate. Even sending out other broo with messages about harmony and peace will probably not work. I don't have an answer to this one, can anyone help?

re Doraddi

Sandy, I think that you have enjoyed puting the Doraddi material onto the Digest about half as much as I have enjoyed reading it. I will probably never use the information but it is the best read on the digest in yonks. If you are going to post more material of this quality please can we have information on the Wastes *and* Pamaltela.

re. Beaties sale

Many thanks to whoever posted the meassage about Beaties selling off Runequest packs real cheap in the UK. I just got 3 boxes for 3 pounds each.

Re Runequest Adventures

Does anyone have subscription information on this ?  

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