[Rq-rules] re: after the end

[Viking Jarl]

Why am I getting double posts? - I get 2 of every posts that have been sent
out lately.
Thanks,
Sven
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-----Original Message-----
From: rq-rules-bounces at crashbox.com [mailto:rq-rules-bounces at crashbox.com]On
Behalf Of Simon Phipp
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:13 AM
To: rq-rules at crashbox.com
Subject: [Rq-rules] re: after the end

Hiya All

> Re the topic of that discussion, while I always liked Glorantha I found it
> rather too contrived for my own tastes, and Peter's comments about the
> 80's-90's Gregging (into the current day) by Gloranthaphile scholars
> essentially turned me off it despite my own meagre contributions to the
> published work. I prefer my fantasy slightly familiar to the totally
> fantastic - Tolkien instead of Jorune, if that doesn't date me too much.
> Glorantha just got to be too rococo for my tastes.
>
> But that's why I continue to lurk here, since I think the mechanics of RQ
> (props to Perrin) were and still are one of the best systems ever, despite
> its being hitched to Glorantha. My fantasy Europe campaign was one of my
> longest running and most-enjoyed.


When I was playing RQ at university (1982-1985) there was a gaming group who
played RQ but only used the RQ2 rulebook. When I pointed out there was so
much more stuff in Cult of Prax, Cults of Terror, Trollpak etc they
basically
said they'd never need that kind of stuff.

Similarly, there are people who still won't touch RQ3 and only play RQ2.

RQ2 had some excellent supplements, but so did RQ3 and Hero Wars/HeroQuest.
There's so much stuff on Glorantha that can be converted to RQ that we have
huge amounts of fairly relevant background material.

OK, I know that some people will still play in Pavis and Prax (where my new
campaign is set) or in Balazar and wouldn't do things in Sartar, Tarsh or
wherever, but that is neither here nor there.

For people playing outside of Glorantha, there is a lot of Gloranthan stuff
that can be adapted into a non-Gloranthan setting.


Nick Middleton:
> Whilst I liked some of the RQII material, the AH boxed sets did seem a
> rather obvious repackaging to maximise profit approach and I rather
stopped
> following what was going on in the latter part of the eighties, and didn't
> pay proper attention until the late nineties... So I missed the whole
> scholars thing, but was increasingly uncomfortable with Hero Wars and the
> Glorantha it was describing (or rather, trying to describe in the case of
> Hero Wars itself...)  I fairly rapidly realised that, like Hero
wars/Quest,
> Glorantha in its current form is a setting I have little sympathy for or
> interest in, so I've been quietly completing my RQ collection via eBay and
> buying up the Gloranthan Classics and largely ignoring where "modern"
> Glorantha (and Hero Quest)  are going.

Well, everyone who played RQ in those days agreed that AH ripped people off
by re-releasing all the RQ2 products as RQ3 ones. But, there are still loads
of good stuff for RQ3 and HW/HQ that can be used in RQ.

It is interesting that AH were slagged off for bringing out the RQ2 stuff
again for RQ3, but Rick Meintz is lauded for bringing out reprints of the
RQ2
material.

As for the players vs scholars debate, it is pretty much irrelevant. When I
get into Glorantha, I can be as nit-picky as the rest of them, especially
when they are wrong about something, but Glorantha, and RQ, are about
playing. They are game rules and game settings, nothing more. Fine, let
people write down histories and mythologies and let us use them or ignore
them. As long as they keep producing interesting material I'll be happy.

As for the comments about what happens to Glorantha after Greg Stafford
retires, or whatever, it probably all depends on who owns Issaries and
whrther they want to keep it going. It's all pretty irrelevant as he seems
to
be in good health.

After all, what happened to Middle Earth after Tolkein died?

See Ya

Simon


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