[Glorantha] Re: ILH2

[Donald R. Oddy]

In message <455C1945.5060600 at blueyonder.co.uk> Trotsky writes:

>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 guess I'm subconsciously weighting the information. If someone's
gone to the trouble of writing up a cult then I see it as evidence
that they've thought through how it fits into the whole. When 
they've only listed a few bits of information because they want an
example then I suspect they haven't really thought about it and
just assuming it's like something similar.

This of course is based on the way I think about things and may be
completely wrong as far as how the authors think. I can also see
how it is horribly unhelpful to anyone new to Glorantha to have
people weighing up the published information this way but as I
say it's subconscious.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/