From: Chris Cooke (mmlab!cookec%max.mml.mmc.com@uunet.UU.NET)
Date: Sat 28 May 1994 - 03:22:19 EEST
: Peter Whitelaw:
: > Has anyone ever noticed how few questions ever get answered here?
: ...
: > Someone else asked about the Gagarthi (Chris someone) did he get any
: > answers? Not one. I asked if anyone wanted me to post a load of non-
: > Gloranthan material for your perusal, delectation, comment or dismissal.
: > But one lonely reply.
Just the opposite!!!
As the Chris _someone_ you mention, I felt I should state WITHOUT A DOUBT I have received more help from this forum then may be apparent. Much of it has come via E-mail conversations started with a question posted here. Perhaps I should post more? I still feel rather the new kid in town... I don't have much _formal_ material, I tend to make up what I need as I go. Given the many helpful experts, I hesitate to jump in.
The assistance I've gotten here has helped make my ongoing campaign (1 year+) such a hit, I have players on a waiting list. Thanks go to David Cheng for getting me started with his initial source list, Sandy for so much I don't know where to begin, Jeorg, Tim Posney, David Cake, Nick Brooke, Jim Rogers, Shannon, Henk, David Cutler, Curtis Taylor, G. Fried, Loren, Dave Camoirano, and a host of MANY others.
: What a load of crap! I recall at least three helpful posters giving Chris
: Someone chapter and verse on Gagarth, before Sandy posted the entire text
: of the official Chaosium cult write-up. Were you asleep at the time?
Hmmm, I caught the ToTRM referance but I must have missed the cult posting. It helped some but since David Gadbois informed me all issues save #5,10,11 are unavailable it wasn't that much help... Sandy, could I persuade you to Email me the write-up you posted? I made up what I needed but I'd prefer to have the real thing for future referance(Arnold voice - I'll be BACK).
This brings me to a point, the learned dissertations a interesting but when they drone on in paragraphs longer then my 80 line screen, I go into BRAIN DAZE. Could we keep with regular(or at least shorter) paragraphs?
: I thought I was doing you a kindness by not rejecting your offer of "some
: non-Gloranthan campaign notes from a friend's campaign" sight unseen. I
: imagine that they would not be my cup of tea; that they would fit better in
: a Digest format which allows us some control over receipt (as happened with
: Sandy's wonderful Tekumel conversions). Why not ask Henk about the chances
: of your material earning this? As you want answers, *any* answers: No, I
: don't believe I'd be interested in them. That's two replies, now. Happy?
I personally would like to see as much RQ and similer as possible. My campaign freely mixes a bit of Elric, a touch of Sandy's EPT, and similer(mostly creatures, sceniaro possibilities or whatever fits my "feel" for Glorantha) with my Gloranthan material. I may not be a purist but my group and I have a blast!!!
: Now, in response to Devin Cutler's informal poll:
:
: > "How many people who write, or post, about Glorantha aren't also players (or
: > refs) of the game?"
: >
: > I wonder that myself sometimes, given the level of unconsideration to gaming
: > issues on this Daily. Perhaps an informal poll is in order?
I am perhaps backwards? I am and always have been primarily a ref.
I played a couple times in our spinoff but it didn't workout so well. I found the new ref always asking for my help until I was basicly running the spinoff too. I did keep him honest though...(oh the complaints I heard :-( )
I decided to let him try it on his own(just answering his questions and such) but that isn't working well either. his personality doesn't seem to lend itself to GMing. "you'll do this because god wants you to but your god isn't really telling you that and if you don't that high level NPC will kill you" *sigh* too bad, it was fun to play a bit too... QUACK!!!
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