[Glorantha] Griffin mountain as inspiration

[Mikko Rintasaari]

I hope people writing the modern Glorantha products re-read their copy of
Griffin Mountain Reprint carefully. The graphics (new ones, I think) are
brilliant. The Lunar cavalry, the Tarshite traders (I think) and have a
very nice and realistic look going. I especially like the pictures of the
citadels, and the floorplans of the same. That's the sort of detail a GM
likes to see, and it would be brilliant to have such believable and
atmospheric pictures of the cities of Sartar, for instance.

The personalities are interesting, the exotic creatures and locations the
very stuff of fantasy, and the playability is just great.

It's no wonder Griffin Mountain is one of the all time classic setting
books. Will we ever see the like of it again?

Oh! And relating to the previous discussion. In the griffins treasure
there is a 2 point blank truestone (so the 1d6 point basic capacity, like
with the crystals seems likely), and the stone on the Windswordd seems to
hold about  10 Rune points. The way it works is pretty interesting. The
spells in the truestone renew themselves, but very, very slowly. One point
per four weeks.

That's another interesting way for truestone to work. What it sounds like
is that truestone is alive, as all Stone is said to have been.

	-Adept

Thinker, dreamer and adventurer