Re: Gloranthan ball games

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From: Andrew Raphael (raphael@research.canon.oz.au)
Date: Fri 01 Apr 1994 - 03:04:17 EEST


MILLERL@wharton.upenn.edu (Loren J. Miller) writes:

>I think American Football has too many rules to be anything at all
>like Trollball. I don't know if Rugby has fewer rules. Somebody else?

I'd always assumed trollball was a parody of American football, with all its armour & helmets.

The Baboons could play Australian football, where you can't run with the ball. Baboons have to run on all fours, after all. Australian rules has been described as monkeys copulating with a football, after all. MOB seems to be a Victorian, so unless he's in the Anti-Football League, he should know all about it. :-) I'm from Sydney, & therefore ignorant of the game.

>> Polo would be a Pentan game, possibly as popular among High Llama
>> riders and Grazers.

The Afghans play a polo-like game using a headless calf as the ball. That sounds like the Pentan's style.

>Save Hockey for people who live in a flat and icy land.

Hockey, played on a grass field with sticks & ball, not ice hockey.

>> Any suggestions for assigning a baseball/cricket clone?

Baseball & cricket have been around for centuries. Ignoring the Cooperstown myth, baseball descends from British stick & ball games. There's an article on this in a Steven J Gould book. Cricket would imply an agricultural society with a wealthy class able to take 5 days to play a game.

>Maybe we could introduce baseball as an aldryami game?

I find it hard to imagine Aldryami playing anything, but if they do, archery would be the thing. Gymnastics, maybe?

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