From: Joerg Baumgartner (rq4@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Thu 03 Feb 1994 - 13:24:10 EET
Steve Barnes cites:
>>>One idea would be to yank Sorcery and put it in a Western sourcebook
>>>(problem: the rest of that sourcebook probably isn't ready).
> Let me cast my vote against this.
Mine, too. I'm going to playtest in Heortland, with Aeolian and Rokari
Malkioni believes clashing. I'm going to have Fazzur as the liberator
from Rokari religious oppression to the heavily Orlanthi-influenced
Aeolian heresy...
Paul Reilly:
>> I'd actually favor this. I'd rather have a combined book with the
>>basic Sorcery Rules and a "Sects of Malkion" section (like Cults of Prax).
>>This would be better for several reasons:
>>1. _Most_ characters don't use much sorcery, even in the West. Very few
>>in Dragon Pass. Thus having an extra section in the rulebook that _everybody_
>>buys seems wrong to me - it's forcing players in campaigns with no sorcerers
>>to buy rules they don't need.
If you play a character from Seshnela or Loskalm, and you don't use
sorcery, you don't use magic. Is this appropriate for Glorantha?
>>2. Sorcery should be _mysterious_ and _alien_ to most central Genertelan
>>characters. This is a lot easier if they haven't read the Sorcery rules.
>>Even in a Western campaign, certain schools should _not_ have all their
>>powers well-known. Galvosti, for example.
> This issue won't be solved by having separate suppliments, as the players
> can just get their hands on "The Compleate Sorceror", or "Western Pack"
> and read it themselves.
As much as I look forward to see such a thing, I don't expect it in
this millennium. (Prove me wrong, please!)
Meanwhile, we'll have to do without this, based only on what the rules
give us. So let the rules give us enough to make at least educated
guesses., and the supplement will come sooner than otherwise.
The eastern and southern parts of Glorantha will be delayed even more,
but there seems to be less actual interest or familiarity.
And as much as I like the Paul&Mike sorcery system, if we can get RQ4
out ASAP, I can live with a detailed write-up as optional rules. I think
only a few things need to be changed to incorporate that concept.
If possible, think over the Paul&Mike system!
-- Joerg Baumgartner rq4@sartar.toppoint.de 0,,
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