[Glorantha] Re: ILH2

[Trotsky]

Donald Oddy:

>> Not true - HB gives full character sheets including lists of feats for YT,
>>D, and IO  - which gives you all the info you would get in a full theist
>>keyword if you are willing to do a little reverse engineering.
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>Well yes, if you include brief lists intended to give an idea of 
>what a particular cult can do. 
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Well, yeah, but why on earth wouldn't you include them? True, they're 
not complete (though the ones in HB aren't far off being complete), but 
they at least tell you what the basic magic is - why would they even be 
there if that weren't so? 

>They certainly aren't proper
>definitions of the cult magic.
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They're good enough to be a very clear definition of the cult magic, IMO 
- especially the HB ones. The attitude that I've seen from some HQ fans 
(and I'm not necessarily picking on Donald, here, because it's cropped 
up in other contexts) that you're not supposed to use the stuff that's 
been written down in black-and-white is one I find baffling. That you 
don't *have* to use it, sure - YGWV. But that you're not supposed to 
trust it at all? Weird.

I accept sometimes you have to make changes, and I can see why this 
particular one was made. But it seems rather odd to claim that it's not 
a meaningful contradiction at all.

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Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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