Nick Brooke Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 How do we feel about this spelling, team? Quaintly retro, or a spurious affectation? 1 Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysus Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Affected misspellings are one of the quickest ways to my ignore list on a lot of forums, so I don't care for it at all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott-martin Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Nick Brooke said: How do we feel about this spelling, team? Quaintly retro, or a spurious affectation? Wisconsin. Probably a reference to Genert's realm as once covered with plane trees. The "plains" inference is a backward folk etymology. 1 Quote singer sing me a given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhôrahil Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Not a fan of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brootse Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Someone posted here on the forums that this is the source for Prax's name: So it should be the prairie of Prax. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Nick Brooke said: How do we feel about this spelling, team? Quaintly retro, or a spurious affectation? Whimsical 60s/70s game designer using weird sounding names, although still in print with WFs is corrected in the Guide... eg. Sultan / Satrap - you know what the right thing to do is... 1 1 Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 22 minutes ago, Lysus said: Affected misspellings are one of the quickest ways to my ignore list on a lot of forums, so I don't care for it at all. Well, aren't WE special? 😜 1 Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 I'm fine with it. Personally, I find that different spellings of words add flavour to a document. I use capital letters far too often, for example. Some people use different spelling of words to give them emphasis or make them stand out. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kloster Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 As I'm french, I have no problems. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhôrahil Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 31 minutes ago, David Scott said: Whimsical 60s/70s game designer using weird sounding names At least it's nowhere near as bad as with Gygax... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_Godspeed Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 If the plains of Prax had been something obscure and "exotic", then using an artificially archaic name would have made since, but considering that Prax is next door to the areas most players will find themselves in, "exotifying" it seems odd and unnecessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 20 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said: At least it's nowhere near as bad as with Gygax... I know, right? Gygax is clearly a made-up dwarf's name. 5 Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Sir_Godspeed said: If the plains of Prax had been something obscure and "exotic", then using an artificially archaic name would have made since, but considering that Prax is next door to the areas most players will find themselves in, "exotifying" it seems odd and unnecessary. At the time though, the whole world was exotic... 1 1 Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Absentia Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 14 minutes ago, David Scott said: At the time though, the whole world was exotic... Wow, that's...very Tolkein-esque. !i! Quote ...developer of White Rabbit Green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajagappa Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 2 hours ago, Ian Absentia said: Wow, that's...very Tolkein-esque. It's one of my favorite Glorantha maps. What you would expect scholars in the Lunar Empire to have produced vs. those LM scholars in Jonstown who think the world centers on Dragon Pass. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akhôrahil Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 2 hours ago, Ian Absentia said: Wow, that's...very Tolkein-esque. The Crater is ginormous!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Brooke Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 23 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said: The Crater is ginormous!! It’s bigger on the inside... 2 Quote Community Ambassador - Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium, Inc. Email: nick.brooke@chaosium.com for community content queries Jonstown Compendium ⧖ Facebook Ф Twitter † old website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Absentia Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 59 minutes ago, jajagappa said: It's one of my favorite Glorantha maps. What you would expect scholars in the Lunar Empire to have produced vs. those LM scholars in Jonstown who think the world centers on Dragon Pass. In defense of the map, everything in the late-60s through the '70s was very Tolkein-esque. The map of Middle Earth in LotR was a gold standard for fantasy cartography. I'm pretty sure I can dig up the one of my own that I drew in 7th-8th grade. I do like the early focus on the Lunar Empire. I also love the 6-point compass rose -- that slipped my notice at first glance. !i! 2 Quote ...developer of White Rabbit Green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 4 hours ago, David Scott said: At the time though, the whole world was exotic... What the ... 💥 From where and when is this map? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Oracle said: What the ... 💥 From where and when is this map? It sits proudly in the White Bear and Red Moon rules, p.47 (in glorious red letters on top of brown ink map on mostly white paper). (I guess Rick might be able to tell what edition my copy of the rules is from with these details... I only ever got the rule booklet, at Tentacles 98, and had it signed by Greg there and then.) Edited March 31, 2020 by Joerg Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_Godspeed Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Ian Absentia said: The map of Middle Earth in LotR was a gold standard for fantasy cartography. I'm pretty sure I can dig up the one of my own that I drew in 7th-8th grade. Still is, I'd reckon. Unless one has very specific opinions about cartography, I suppose. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Absentia Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Back to the actual matter at hand... 9 hours ago, Nick Brooke said: How do we feel about this spelling, team? Quaintly retro, or a spurious affectation? Depends on the context. If written "in character," with similar affectations, go hog wild. For added character, I recommend replacing all lowercase "s" with "f", and all "z" with "s" -- I reckon you're already halfway there. !i! Quote ...developer of White Rabbit Green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordabdul Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Joerg said: It sits proudly in the White Bear and Red Moon rules, p.47 (in glorious red letters on top of brown ink map on mostly white paper). We might mention that WB&RM's entire board game also features a rotated map where the north is pointing to the right, actually. Although I believe it was rotated back with north pointing up for the later "Dragon Pass" edition of that game. I really like the idea that different cultures might represent the world with different styles and orientations of maps... I would love to see (or make!) "in-world" maps, with Lunar maps being widely different from Esrolian or Praxian maps. As for the OP.... what @Kloster said! Edited April 1, 2020 by lordabdul 2 Quote Ludovic aka Lordabdul -- read and listen to The God Learners , the Gloranthan podcast, newsletter, & blog ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 2 minutes ago, lordabdul said: ... I would love to see (or make!) "in-world" maps, with Lunar maps being widely different from Esrolian or Praxian maps. I would expect (not having seen any) all Lunar maps to show one of two things: the Crater (and thus the Red Moon itself) in the center, or (if it's off the edge of the map) the Crater being the "North" for that map. 1 Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kloster Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 17 hours ago, Akhôrahil said: At least it's nowhere near as bad as with Gygax... Don't tell that to swiss guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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