From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Fri 01 Jul 1994 - 15:23:10 EEST
David Cake in X-RQ-ID: 4933
> In reply to various things Sandy said
>> Everyone's campaign is different. My own PCs are homeless >> wanderers, and so I naturally assume everyone's campaign is like >> mine. At least, I did until about fifteen years ago, when I >> discovered the amazing range of difference between RQ campaigns.
> Well most of my PCs seem to be travelling barflies, but one of them
> won the Garhound contest, and next thing you know, the house, the
> wife, community responsibilities, and he's a regular pillar of society,
> and hobknobs with the rich and powerful - well at least the notorious
> and respected.
Actually one of my main reasons to switch to Glorantha with my current RQ campaign was that I had a very good reason to demand cultural adaption and responsibilities on the part of the player characters. My previous campaign, which had started as a (fantasy) Vikings only campaign with family ties and social involvement (80% of the starting characters had been married, and had children to raise and farms or workshops to tend), had developed into a spin-off which contained homeless wanderers only, due to a series of character deaths in foreign country. When the party became less and less coherent, I lost interest in making common adventures for them - why bother if they split up anyway. This campaign rests unresolved...
For the Glorantha campaign I have chosen, I let the foreign cultures visit instead of making my characters travel more than say 200 km. Within this radius they'll find enough stuff to do, e.g. the warm-up phase of the hero wars. Maybe they'll make the longer trip to Pavis one day, but so far there is enough to do close by, and with the current date (late 1615) there will come enough distraction to central Heortland for the next 7 years...
P.S.:
Henk, what happened my Aeolian stuff for a digest?
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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