From: argrath@aol.com
Date: Thu 05 May 1994 - 05:08:48 EEST
Upon further reflection:
I accept John Hughes's ways of looking at Glorantha (he calls them "levels"): as combat reality, RQ rules-derived reality, literary reality, and gloranthan reality. (I might quibble about these labels, the boundaries of the ways, etc., but there's entirely too much quibbling on the Daily already.)
However, some things that are undeniably Gloranthan work best in only some of these ways of looking. Ducks are a frinstance. They're funny, and work in the rules-derived and literary realities. Do they have teeth? Of course, so they can hold their cigars (says John Castellucci). This is prob'ly not a GR answer, as John Hughes sees it (fully-functioning closed world). Creating a plausible GR answer is going to be tough, because the essential comic relief nature of Ducks will show through.
And I disagree strongly that it is "unprofitable to vacillate in discussion between different levels." Trolls and (especially) trollkin were originally just monsters to kill, or CR. They have evolved through Trollpak, which is in the RQR or LR area, into GR (at least on the Daily). They continue to work in all four of these ways, though I agree it is best to look at them separately. Maybe it's the word "vacillate" I disagree with. We can switch from one to another, but should be aware of the switch.
--Martin
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