[Glorantha] Fighting true dragons

[Mikko Rintasaari]

> Hi
>
> How many people think that Mikko's problem with wanting player
> characters to be able to fight true dragons is primarily because of the
> existence of Alokoring (he being a (true) dragon slayer)?

That's not exactly what I'm after. I need a vision of the true dragons
that can fit in _my_ head, and that I'm comfortable using. The celestial
scale dragons don't work for me as actual physical objects flying/walking
around the surface of Glorantha. I'm just presenting a view I've been
working on. One way of looking at the Glorantha material/setting.

> I have always advised players against that cult telling them that its
> filled with magic they will never use, mainly due to inability to
> reconcile or suspend my belief that a regular human with a few neat
> feats could take on a dragon.

Not a regular human being, but a Hero. Somebody in the 1w3 - 10w4 range in
very specific and exotic abilities... everything has to go right, and even
then all the hero has got is a chanse.

But I need to know what my NPC's can do, and how they do it.

> For me that ruins the magic. I rationalise thatt the Alokoring cult is
> based around a nerdy bunch of guys who tell these outlandish stories and
> have a bunch of magic that no one has ever seen them use. Greg has
> hinted in the past that there are charlatans everywhere - and this seems
> like one to me.

Not so for me. I'm a big fan of the EWF, but that also requires that their
enemies were/are real and dangerous. Also remember that a dragon that has
been killed isn't necessarily permanently gone. Permanently killing a True
Dragon is propably just as impossible as permanently killing a major God.
Parhaps even more so, since the dragons seem pretty resilient aainst
chaos.

>   Mikko Rintasaari:
>
> > concluding thought on the dragons
>
>   Concluding? I doubt it very much :-)

Sorry, I was trying to sum up my current thinking. Non-native english
speaker problem there.

More later,

	-Adept