From: Argrath@aol.com
Date: Sat 03 Sep 1994 - 18:55:40 EEST
Alex fumbles his Animal Lore roll in reply to Joerg's statement--
>> What I mean is that the beasts of Ygg's isles are the
>>subarctic species of large deer with spoon-like antlers a
>>sub-average-sized man can walk under.
>Is this plausible for a bunch of small, isolated islands? Not
>many Alces alces on the shetlands, are there?
Gigantism is common on islands. Dunno anything about the Shetlands--maybe the first settlers wiped out any gigantic fauna, as the Maori did to the Moa.
Paul Heinz: thanks for the Varmandi story. More, please. (Players in my game should be warned that if combat does occur, it's likely to be as nasty as in Paul's game.)
T.J. Minas (do your friends call you Tirith?), in an otherwise commonsensical bit about thieves, talked about Thieves' Guilds. This phrase always causes me to scream. Lhankmar is a bizarre, ancient place, where even the thieves are organized. Elsewhere, you could have dens, gangs, or families of thieves, but the use of the word "guild" could only be ironic, and even then it's only appropriate in places with proper guilds, such as, say, Seshnela. Elsewhere, there might be primitive trade organizations (for above ground trades), but guild doesn't have those connotations. "Thieves' Guild" makes me think "Local 1104, AFL-CIO." <rant mode off>
Alex moans:
>Bryan J. Maloney asserts:
>> First, Bless Earth is necessary to merely get a "normal" crop
>>in Genertela.
>Does anyone have a source for the "Truth" of this?
At the Gloranthan lore auction, Greg and Sandy said something pretty close to this. Check page 60 of the RuneQuest-Con Compendium. I thought there was something specifically on Bless Crops, but couldn't find it.
>> In Pameltela, since the Father of the Land still lives, things
>>are naturally fertile, and Bless Earth gives you an excessive
>>crop.
>This would seem more likely if either: Pameltela actually _was_
>more fertile than Genertela; ...
It is. See same citation, above.
Henk:
Was there a part 2 to Friday's Daily? Part 1 was fairly late in
coming, and it's not-unheard-of for parts to be two or three days
late, but I thought I'd ask, as it's also not-unheard-of for
parts not to show up at all.
--Martin
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