From: Graeme A Lindsell (gal502@cscgpo.anu.edu.au)
Date: Tue 07 Dec 1993 - 02:03:30 EET
Joerg's Gloranthan Enclclopaedia
>- Can we produce "official" Gloranthan material (need we get Greg
>Stafford's okay for each and any thing, is there "one true way")
I'd expect he'd say no, but equally well I expect he'd ignore anything he didn't like. Perhaps the best way is to try and work in the less well defined regions of Glorantha: a lot of the West and Kralorela seem poorly defined. The areas where we can write whatever we like is the Blank Lands, but this would never be official.
>- How may we distribute the material on the net, outside the net, and
>what about the copyright problems?
Most companies seem fairly tolerant of "fan fiction": unless we copy big chunks of printed material I doubt they'd complain. If some topic is covered in a product that's still in print then the Encyclopaedia should just give a (very) short summary and the correct references.
Format: Plain ASCII for text. Could anyone suggest a good format for graphics such as pictures and maps? GIF? Targa? Please not Postscript. Anything but Postscript. :-)
David Cheng writes:
>When I first heard the theory that perhaps some of the demigod-like beings
>at the battle of Castle Blue were actually heroquesters coming back in time
>to influence the past, I immediately didn't like the whole idea.
Was it the battle of Castle Blue? I thought it was meant to be at the Night of Horrors.
IMO all "big H" Heroquesting is travelling back in Time. An Orlanthi heroquester travels back to re-enact the actions of Orlanth. I believe a Fourth Age hero of Argrath would heroquest to re-enact his battles with the Evil Empire.
Sandy Petersen writes:
>The Closing generally only took effect if you went out of sight of
>land.
I'm suprised there wasn't more coastal trade along the coasts of Glorantha and Pameltela then. You can sail a long way without going out of site of land. Perhaps it was the fear of the sea which stopped them
Graeme Lindsell a.k.a Graeme.Lindsell@anu.edu.au
X-RQ-ID: Extro
[The rules of the game]
Send submissions and followup to "RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM", they will automatically be included in a next issue.
Please include a Subject: line. Articles without it will be ignored, returned, or delayed.
Selected articles may also appear in a regular Digest. If you want to submit articles to the Digest only, contact the editor at RuneQuest-Digest-Editor@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM.
Send enquiries and Subscription Requests to the editor:
RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Henk Langeveld)
From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer)
Sender: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer)
Organization: Lankhor Mhy and Associates
To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest)
Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily)
Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Tue, 07 Dec 1993, part 1
Message-ID: <RQD931207p1@Glorantha>
Precedence: junk
X-RQ-ID: Intro
This is the RuneQuest Daily Bulletin, a mailing list on the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. It is sent out once per day in digest format.
More details on the RuneQuest Daily and Digest can be found after the last message in this digest.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 10 Oct 2003 - 01:32:35 EEST