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Dungeons and Dragons: could the Next version end the edition wars?
29 May 2012 11:02PM
Them: [On Runequest/Glorantha] Exactly. The work of Joseph Campbell was a big influence. And boy, does it show. I like this thread. Pleasantly nerdy.
Me: To be extra nerdy isn't it that Glorantha's 2nd age Godlearners express Stafford's dissatisfaction with Campbell's model of the monomyth, as downplaying the specifics of individual myths; that's what the Goddess Swap is about.
Them: you are clearly on a heroquest to capture the essence of gloranthan nerdiness.
Yes, in other words. That more or less wraps it all up. I was at a gloranthan convention once, and played a boardgame about the GodLearners. I seem to recall it was a race to accumulate point before the universe was destroyed. I love it. Commercially? It would have been a disaster, since only about a thousand people worldwide would have known what the hell the game was about.
29 May 2012 11:02PM
Them: [On Runequest/Glorantha] Exactly. The work of Joseph Campbell was a big influence. And boy, does it show. I like this thread. Pleasantly nerdy.
Me: To be extra nerdy isn't it that Glorantha's 2nd age Godlearners express Stafford's dissatisfaction with Campbell's model of the monomyth, as downplaying the specifics of individual myths; that's what the Goddess Swap is about.
Them: you are clearly on a heroquest to capture the essence of gloranthan nerdiness.
Yes, in other words. That more or less wraps it all up. I was at a gloranthan convention once, and played a boardgame about the GodLearners. I seem to recall it was a race to accumulate point before the universe was destroyed. I love it. Commercially? It would have been a disaster, since only about a thousand people worldwide would have known what the hell the game was about.