From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Mon 20 Jun 1994 - 21:55:55 EEST
Martin Crim in X-RQ-ID: 4659
> To take another tack, I prefer a game world where
> the Archbishop of Malkonwal can say, "God has given us the
> Archbishopric, now let us make use of it."
A nice summary of the Rokari occupation of Heortland, in my campaign.
Cullen O'Neill in X-RQ-ID: 4663
> I could go on, but instead let me take a different tack. If people
> didn't believe fervently in religion, why were they willing to kill
> other people over things like: The father has the [same nature/ a
> similar nature/ a different nature] from the son. etc, etc, etc...
Sorry to intrude with real life, but if people wouldn't believe in their soccer teams, why would they plunder and attempt to kill when this team wins/loses/whatever? <sarcasm mode off>
> And large numbers of these people would be quite willing
> to kill and/or die to protect their faith.
and even lesser identification objects, like soccer teams (everywhere outside the US), chariot races (in Dark Age Byzantium, cf. Nika riots event card in Credo), or whatever.
Devin in X-RQ-ID: 4664
I said that a tortured priest would DI out. Devin retorts:
> But the Priest will make DI about 18% of the time. The other 82% he will
> simply be tortured.
If you play by the rules. In this situation, I wouldn't. The worshipper provides the deity with an opportunity to twist the compromise, and if a deity doesn't hear an apply for help in its inner sanctum, I wonder how it gets any info at all from the Mundane plane.
> The occurances of "Resurrection" in modern life is rare compared the the
> occurance in Glorantha.
Sez who? Game practice? Resurrection R Us?
I stand against a reliable resurrection service in Glorantha, but I don't want to revive this dinosaur thread once again.
> Also, we in modern times have science to explain away
> this phenomenon. Gloranthans don't AND the pre-Renaissance man did not have
> these occurances of Resurrection since life-saving techniques were
> unavailable.
This is why I tossed in apparent death, a phenomenon popular enough to give a man like Poe nightmares.
> "A question of appeal to all the Gloranthan RuneQuesters out there: can
> we make away with the concept of Blank Lands by now?"
> I always liked the idea of out-of-the-way Blank Lands, so that someone who
> was running "official Glorantha" could have free-rain and not worry too much
> about conflict.
If the blank lands were positioned there, why not. They aren't, though. Retrint is the battle-field for the Loskalm-KoW clash, Balazar and Garsting are right next to the main stage of Argrath vs. Red Empire and become a stage themselves, Lalia is a crucial country for the troll-Ralios interaction and lies too close to Seshnela to be unimportant, and only Sulayz in Enkloso qualifies for out-of-the-way.
> Nevertheless, you are right that with Multiplicity Glorantha
> reinign supreme, the need for Blank Lands is lessened.
Thanks for your support.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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