From: David Cheng (drcheng@sales.stern.nyu.edu)
Date: Mon 25 Apr 1994 - 07:28:14 EEST
I am wonderfully amused, and terribly flattered, by Eric Rowe's cult
writeup. I guess I don't have to worry about where my soul's going
in the afterlife any more! ;-)
However, I feel proper credit hasn't been given. Let me revise the myth to better emphasize the role of those indomitable Brits; David Hall, Steve Thomas, Nick Brooke, Dan Barker, Lewis Jardine, Kevin Jacklin, and a bunch of other's I'm forgetting.
Without _Tales of the Reaching Moon_ there wouldn't have been any central, sanctioned source of new Gloranthan material. Stafford himself has said that TotRM reignited his enthusiasm in Glorantha.
Without the success of Tales, there wouldn't have been any inspriation to highlight RQ at Conjunction of a Million Spheres, and Convulsion of a Trillion Tentacles after. Without Convulsion, there wouldn't have been any heroquesting over the big water to inspire me (and David Gadbois too).
Here on the home front, let's not forget Andrew Bell, the father of the RuneQuest Digest. (Say, has anyone heard from this guy lately?) Henk has done great things at the helm of what is now the Daily. Without these guys, there would be a few scattered posts about RQ hidden between all the GURPS, Storyteller & Shadowrun stuff.
Michael O'Brien has to be credited with snatching the RQ line from the jaws of disaster. Following _Lost City of Eldarad_ and _Daughters of Darkness_, his _Sun County_ was really the first sign of AH's role in what has come to be known as the "RuneQuest Renaissance." I only hope they appreciate better the role of momentum, both positive and negative.
The way I see it, on the team of RQ All-Stars, I am happy to be the bat boy...
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