From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Fri 07 Jan 1994 - 21:27:19 EET
>From: Guy_Robinson.sbd-e@rx.xerox.com
>David Durham wrote:
DuNham
>I have not read Gods of Glorantha nor the boxed Glorantha overview. I suspect
>that you are refering to material associated with RQ3 which would naturally
>promote the inclusion of RQ3 style Sorcery into Glorantha.
While it's true that RQ3 supplements couch things in terms of RQ3 rules, I
don't think they're making up Gloranthan stuff just so they can use the
rule. Also, GoG has not only details on the sorcerous religion (which more
or less has its own rune), but also two slightly differeng magic systems
(for Kralorela and the Red Goddess). Glorantha has almost no game terms in
it, but gives a broad overview of all the cultures and political units of
Genertela.
>BTW if the Spellteaching rune spell still exists then this is something
>I throughly approve of.
You said you had book 2; p.36.
>This is a definition of a sorcerer that I can except in terms of cultural
>use as well as a game term. I feel that in RQ for sorcery, or alledged
>sorcery, to exist it would have to be exotic, or at least exotic from
>a Praxian perspective.
A Gloranthan uses the term "sorcery" to refer to another culture's magic
system. As Joerg pointed out, the Westerners call their specialists
Wizards.
I hate to recommend you rush out and spend lots of money on boxed
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supplements, but I think you're denying the existence of stuff merely
because you haven't read it. Greg Stafford is a prominent author of both
Gods of Glorantha and Glorantha, and I think the two together give a pretty
accurate overview of the wizards of western Genertela, and the fact that
they use a completely different system of magic than, say, the Orlanthi.
Whether or not this is RQ3 sorcery is a different question.
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