Ali the Helering

Those, and the ones with the Alynx and Aramite filters....

Mine has to have a Resurrection spell cast upon it from time to time...

Have you been watching my Zoom sermons????

Or Hebrews 12: 1, pretty please?????

Presumably before the reintroduction of good Yelmite togas?

No, I just think that a little leeway is permissible numerically, although certainly it is a weak case linguistically. The problem is that they do say that it is purely for the calculation of SR, not an actual statement of length. If you choose to employ the length rating as an absolute, nobody has the ability to make or use a spear longer than 1.5m and shorter than 3m, which is an obvious nonsense. Then we have to disagree about numbers, words, charts and common sense.

The definition in RQG is that it is the approximate metric length used for determining strike ranks. The early blade length of around 65 cm is not entirely unreasonable for a rating of 1, given that it was a weapon-of-choice when reach was important. Xenophon (speaking of the later, shorter variant) still regarded it as the cavalry sword of choice, not something one might expect of a short sword.

Possibly because the terrestrial term refers to a variety of weapons with very different blade lengths?

Perfectly true, but the early Mykenaeans certainly used 3-4 metre long spears with their tower shields, possibly in a two handed fashion. Several rule systems for ancient warfare interpret them in a similar fashion to sarissa-armed phalanx. The Sumerian block depicted below seems similar, with six spear-heads projecting beyond the shield wall. I have to say that these guys are my image of the Sundome pike units.

Dang, and we had been getting on so well.... Babylon without Marcus is a wonderful culinary experience, but with Marcus has an expanded range of spicing! Marcus: At least a dozen ships have reported seeing something rather godlike in the area, and since neither you nor I were there, it must be one of the First Ones.Ivanova: You're having delusions of grandeur again.Marcus: Well, if you're gonna have delusions, may as well go for the really satisfying ones.

No, I agree with you! I think that Donaldson may be transferring his empathy issues to Covenant. You seem amazingly sane in the way you have described your self-awareness.😇

Obviously. He had skill, cunning, and brilliance.

I think this may say something about Donaldson's vision of himself and his youth in India, with his father as a doctor of those with leprosy. I say this as someone who was born in Myanmar and whose sisters grew up there with our father as Chairman of two 'leper colonies' as they were called. I have seen the aftermath of body horror on young children. The thing I have real issues with is that some critics have praised him for his 'fast pace', while I find the Linden books d-r-a-a-a-a-g out interminably. His vision of the Land, though, is glorious.

Very true. The post-apocalypse is seen in the invasion myths of the Hellenic peoples (Dorians etc etc) and the Hebrew idea of an invasion of Canaan to account for the ruined and empty cities. Curiously enough, it is that close tie that I think is there in the myths that we have. The ability to debate with and wound a deity seems moderately proximate to me!

Some, before I decided I had a limited time on Earth, and better ways to spend it.

Indeed, but neither are they completely divorced from them, because we bring our own cultural baggage and assumptions to look at them. If I were to focus on a people as a Mykenaean analogue, would I be using Homer, Schliemann, Doerpfeld, Woods, Dickenson or another vision of them anyway? Terrestrial humans functionally behaved as if they had learned cultural arts from others. The reality is academic. I don't think that in any way accords with their own understanding of the situation. It is their understanding that interests me, not ours. Yeah - it is interesting how often developments are read back into a past, especially if ancient tech is misunderstood. Joseph in Bronze Age Egypt is chained with iron, Druids build Stonehenge, and the walls of Mykenae were built by a race of optically challenged giants. I don't think Glorantha has to conform to any given RW culture, and if you think I do, you are missing the point.

Hmmm.. busy with a Staff Meeting, but I will respond to this later. I think that you underestimate the power of religious thinking in the RW Bronze and early Iron Ages. For active and immanent deities, you couldn't do better than Iliad or Mahabharata. Beats Glorious Reascent any day.

Less integrity than Bored of the Rings and the Sellamillion.

One does not simply 'skip over' Mordor....

Corruption was often a capital charge in the states of Greece, because it was understood as undermining the state itself.

At least it prepared you for these recent months of unremitting light and laughter...

Yes, I remember the jokes concerning the Nazgul and Frodo too....

I was given LotR as a birthday present (appropriately) and read solidly till finished. Rinse, repeat... By my 18th birthday I calculated that I had read it 16 times. I think I was a tad obsessive! 43 years later that total must be around 35 - 40. Silmarillion is astoundingly better, though. One thing I have learnt from all of this is - it's a series of novels set in a world. I quite enjoy it, despite the racism implicit to the time of writing. Avoid the Quenya elitists and all Sindarin flame wars. It's a series of novels, no more.

Ah, how kind. Ah, how wrong! I am lobbying for the next Methodist Service Book to contain a Rite of Execration for anything touched by Gygax Dragonlord.🤪

Televangelism?