Re: RuneQuest Daily, Sat, 16 Apr 1994, part 1

From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Sun 17 Apr 1994 - 20:23:25 EEST

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John Hughes in X-RQ-ID: 3669

Extremely nice piece on games. By now, we ought to have enough for a series of digests...

> I hesitate to bring this up, but why does KOS refer to ducks as
> 'wereducks'? I daren't not think. Greg's persecution of this romantic,
> serious, and tragic people is relentless.

I think this is more harmless than you suspect. The prefix "were" dos not indicate lycanthropy, but derivs from the Latin "vir", "man". If durulz are called wereducks, it actually stresses that they have something in common with men.
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