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  1. Ali the Helering
    Almost anything by Kurosawa, I know not Bronze but.... Definitely the Mahabharata series. Ashoka, if you ignore the songs
  2. Ali the Helering
    I thought it meant Liberator 🤔
  3. Ali the Helering
    I never suggested that the Lunars are good.... simply that they could be read that way. I don't think anybody deserves that adjective without some qualifications, in Glorantha or the RW.
  4. Ali the Helering
    Oddly enough, l doubt a Lunar prisoner relishes being 'given to the fields' or thrown to an umbroli. Cultural prejudice is always unfair.
  5. Ali the Helering
    Good to know that nobody in the RW holds an hatred dating back 500 to 1000 years. Oh, hold on.....
  6. Ali the Helering
    Isn't it wonderful that the Orlanthi weren't involved in the horrors of the EWF? Nor in any way connected with the slaughter and sack of Peloria when Nysalor was murdered?
  7. Ali the Helering
    I completely disagree. The fun and power for me emerge from the anthropological invention of Greg, along with his playful and sardonic humour. The Aldryami are out to revert the world into forest, hostile to most of the other sapient races. They will kill millions if they succeed.
  8. Ali the Helering
    Fanatical ecoterrorists? Aldryami. I happily play Orlanthi, because it is play. I can play extremists with ease. Doesn't mean I love 'em!
  9. Ali the Helering
    When I was asked to explain the Orlanthi viewpoint a few years back, I realised that the best comparison I could think of was an ultranationalist right-winger. Even if they are correct, it doesn't make them either good or nice in terms most of us would understand.
  10. Ali the Helering
    Do you have particular sources?
  11. Ali the Helering
    Slavery exists in the boonies too. Freedom in the more advanced tech also Is it better to be a slave to a brute in the backwoods or a free citizen with greater safety?
  12. Ali the Helering
    As opposed to the guys with Urox, Babeester and Ereltharol, such great paragons of reason, moderation and pacifism?
  13. Ali the Helering
    Whilst I agree that technology in and of itself doesn't make things moral, it does enable things that can make life qualitatively better. Public health, better communications, as obvious examples. Do we have to invoke Monty Python here?
  14. Ali the Helering
    Or Lunars good, because a) greater gender equality, b) cultural inclusivity, c) higher technology. I agree with your sympathy for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Durulz. 🦆🦆🦆
  15. Ali the Helering
    Yes, they are mentioned.
  16. Ali the Helering
    In FS p81, against the title 'Low Dara Happan Religion' Greg noted "I'd sure like to have this myself." It has always struck me as significant.
  17. Ali the Helering
    Hastatus, Sagittus and, indeed, Shargash, with Polaris for the officer corps.
  18. Ali the Helering
    I have to admit that I don't see the point of the debate. If you want to play a combat monster, do so. If you think Yelmalio is a suitable deity for your character, choose him. That's what role play is all about. If you want Yelmalio to have Shield, give it to him. If you want pacifist Uroxi, fine. Your Glorantha has varied.
  19. Ali the Helering
    I would go for 1613.of the two on offer, but I would really like something set in the First Age....
  20. Ali the Helering
    I did run a scenario where Glorantha was revealed to be a 'map' on a RingWorld ocean where the gods were AIs. Uzuz as Protectors. Bad move. Almost wrecked the wider campaign.
  21. Ali the Helering
    That too. Truestone is scrith. The road to the moon is the arch. The Hungry Plateau is labeled in one map as 'the Lift', presumably the equivalent of the Map of Mars.....
  22. Ali the Helering
    There are times my co-religionists make me weep. I knew a minister who held a book-burning of Harry Potter novels. He didn't even recognise it as intolerance.
  23. Ali the Helering
    Indeed the RW is the model, but Glorantha a different overall picture. Whilst Heler has similarities to some RW deities, I don't think any is a direct parallel. The concern was vaguely phrased, so that it was not directly offensive. I was reassured by his response to my remarks, since tolerance of Paganism is by no means universal. When delivering my course on 'Experiencing Faith' it was often the area which met with the most prejudice.
  24. Ali the Helering
    In his later years he disowned 'The White Goddess' himself, wondering what had come over him to write such rubbish!
  25. Ali the Helering
    No hassle, I am very happy to do so. My predecessor is an 'evangelist' for the virtues of D&D and WH40K, so it isn't RPGs that are the problem anyway. More a matter of the inability to distinguish RW from fantasy religion. Of course, that could be seen as Greg's genius.
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