From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 27 Jun 1994 - 05:58:14 EEST
Sandy:
> My general rule is that you
> can only try a DI ONCE in a given situation, and never again; AND
> that no one else can try to DI for that request -- 'tis been refused
> by the God Hisself. In this way, I attempt to prevent the dread use
> of "line up the initiates and have 'em each try DI until the
> Priestess is resurrected." which prevents most assassinations.
Here, here. If a whole buncha people want the same result, perhaps one should allow a "communal invokation" sort of DI, but if someone else simply repeats, or attempts to legalistically rephrase, a refused DI, an appropriate response to a "successful" roll would be something as close as is compromise-consistent to "<thwappitythwapthwapthwapthwap> What did I just _say_, bonehead? <BAP!>"
> Hear, hear! While I don't mind having a separate
> classification for women (so long as, in the end, they can do
> everything a man can do)
> I have mentioned and still adhere to my belief that
> there are female nobility, warriors, and magicians in both Loskalm
> and Tanisor
Because they're Good Guys, natch. Have you any actual reasoning to back this up? This doesn't appear to tally much with: what background we've been told about the West; any of the suggested "analogues" for any of the Western regions; or the reported attitudes of Westerners.
> [...] and Greg said that Earth might have had the
> plague of chauvinism throughout its existence, but by Gum, Gloranthan
> wasn't, and he was perfectly prepared to ensure that women had an
> important place in every nation in Glorantha.
> No doubt it's possible to draw different conclusions by
> finely sifting the data on one nation or another and interpreting it
> just right, but Greg's goal should be public, I feel.
Greg was clearly Seeing The Other Side Of The Question when he wrote (from the POV of a Westerner) "Men fight, farm, hunt, and defend the land. Women raise children, comfort, and tend house." Important, I suppose, but even remotely egalitarian, I think not.
Should we take Equal Opportunity Dara Happa as an example, too?
> Perhaps a better comparison for the Loskalm/KoW struggle
> would be Frederick the Great in the Seven Years War (fighting France,
> Austria, and Russia, all together). Or Alexander the Great vs. the
> horrendously huge Persian Empire which had a perfectly competent
> army.
Probably, in fact, "The best army in the world", at least according to their own publicity.
Alex.
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