From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Tue 01 Feb 1994 - 04:57:09 EET
Guy Robinson writes:
G>This excellent news on two counts. One, that Greg liked the rules and
>two, that I mis-spelt his name by only an extra g :-)
G>If Greg saw the draft at the RQ-Con what is the level of his involvement
>in the development of commercial RuneQuest currently? Is RQ:AiG meant
>to be a Greg-compatable roleplaying game?
Any RQ project is by definition Greg-compatible. He has final veto on
all RQ or Gloranthan projects.
[I wrote]
G>> I'm a God Learner myself, Guy, so I don't see how we can be excluding
>>God Learning from the rules. Could you be clearer?
>> God Learner! Loren's a God Learner!...ahem. That isn't how we see
>>things -- duties are duties.
G>This suggested that there was a diverence between the God Learner stance
>and RQ:AiG. This view seems to be supported by Loren Miller's recent
>posting in which he wrote:
Um, that was an attempt at humor, indicating that Loren is
overanalyzing something that no normal Gloranthan would ever think of.
G>L>Greg Stafford has attempted to disassociate himself from
> >his formerly God-Learnerish writings, and he's taking a much
> >more subjective approach to writing about Glorantha nowadays.
> >RAIG is following Stafford in this, not forging its own trail.
This is a reference to the tendency of publications up to about Gods
of Glorantha to give the Jrusteli version of all myths and legends.
Thus we got an artificially homogenized, unified myth structure. Lately
Greg is revealing that different cultures don't in fact agree nearly as
much as the God Learners would have had you believe.
The comment about being a God Learner was an inside joke to certain
overseas readers who don't believe that I know the Secret of the God
Learners. It was also a comment on Greg Stafford calling himself an
Arkati at RQ-Con. If he's First Age (and I guess Sandy is the Laughing
Warrior?) then I want to be Second Age.
--Carl
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