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From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 02 Jun 1994 - 11:23:39 EEST


Sandy Petersen in X-RQ-ID: 4274

replyng to me: 

>>Germany may have smaller distances [than the USA], but we actually  
>>meet only if some of us chance to visit another's home city, or at  
>>the annual convention. The US with its great, "everyone's there"  
>>conventions would be as good a breeding ground for such a society as  
>>Germany where next to noone really leaves his city of birth.
>	You don't understand. Because our country is so enormous, and

> comparatively thinly-peopled, a given city tends to have fewer actual
> RuneQuesters available, except for the largest metropolitan areas.
> Because of this, there's usually not enough locals playing RQ in an
> area to actually form a group, though I agree it would be wonderful
> if they would.

I had the impression that most active roleplaying in the US took place at colleges or universities and around these. This would be centres of say 5000 potential roleplayers, so that theer could be enough people around to get a RuneQuest group or two together, depending on evangelisation among the roleplayers and those who might become such. 

>>Nor do we profit much from being a "youth organization".


> 	Really? When I was in Germany last November, I was told that
> the government actually provided funds for the gaming conventions and
> local RPG groups there.

Ah, the Golden Age... No, funds have been shortened here, and activities keeping the youths occupied and off the street aren't worth financial aid any more. Typical blindness of politicians with an empty purse... 

>>the geology minor in me still wants to know how long the ice age  
>>held Glorantha in sway before the Dawning.


> 	If I answer, I'll get picked on by all the "there is no time
> in Godtime" fanatics. ;)

So what?

> I'm sticking to my theory that the Land Goddesses and Grain
> Goddesses are One. This doesn't mean that there aren't farming
> goddesses associated with a particular grain. For instance, Krala is
> the Land Goddess of Kralorela, and her special grain is Rice. Yet
> there is also a Rice Mother. For that matter, I can imagine someone
> living in Peloria and wanting to worship Esrola because she is the
> Barley goddess. Even though she's not native to my homeland.

So Esrolia still is the land of oatsmeal? Didn't Peloria grow wheat before Hon-eel discovered maize for the empire, just 140 years ago?

While I'm at grains, which areas grow summer grain, and which winter grain, which do both? Are there places in Glorantha where one can grow two crops a year? 

>>Glorantha is remarkably earth-like in its fauna, if you leave out  
>>chaos, legendary beasties from known earth mythologies (Griffins,  
>>Hippogriffs, etc), gigantism, and anachronisms (dinosaurs,  
>>titanotheres). The only unique animal I can think of out of my head  
>>is the Rubble Runner 



> 	Don't Ducks, Wind Children, Dragonewts, Maidstone Archers,
> Jolanti, Jelmre, and so forth get to count? Or do only unintelligent
> animals?

Those were what I was thinking of. I mean a world that spawned so many different intelligent life should have a few unique unintelligent beasts.

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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de

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