styopa Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'm curious if Greg and MAR Barker ever crossed paths? Both men developed elaborate fictional universes leading up to the 1970s with comprehensive mythologies etc that were entirely divorced from the rather-pedestrian Tolkienesque canon. Both men worked on developing role playing rules to experience these worlds (RQ for Glorantha, and EPT for Tekumel). Tekumel is a fascinating world (frankly, I used Sandy's Tekumel stuff as my "Western Magic" fodder, worked great), I'm curious if these two minds ever encountered each other? Seems like they'd have had a lot to chat about. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott-martin Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Hi Styropa -- There's a fan letter from MARB in Wyrms Footnotes 1 ("like my own game, it looks most formidable at first reading") so they were definitely aware of each other. Quote singer sing me a given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Helsdon Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 19 hours ago, styopa said: I'm curious if Greg and MAR Barker ever crossed paths? The Professor reviewed Cults of Prax in the Gryphon #1 Summer 1980, and Greg responded in the same issue. Unfortunately the Cult Compendium only includes Greg's response, but the review is interesting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Glorantha Pendragon Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Hello All Yes, MAR and I met several times at conventions. We got along famously. I once challenged him to a miniatures battle, the Lunar Army versus whatever Tekumel army he wished. All in good fun of course. Alas, he never took me up on it. I did once have a friend who would spend every summer in an ashram. He looked at Tekumel for three minutes or so and said, "Oh, this is SE Asian mythology." I used to think it was strange that someone would have gone to India and come home a muslim, but have since learned that India is the third largest muslim countries in the world, coming in right after Indonesia and Pakistan. I've spoken to many people who played in his campaign, and they all said he was one of the greatest gamemaster they had ever gamed with. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vile Traveller Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Allow me to be the first to welcome you to these boards, "Mr Gorantha Pendragon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mankcam Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 And I'll be the second! Quote " Sure it's fun, but it is also well known that a D20 roll and an AC is no match against a hefty swing of a D100% and a D20 Hit Location Table!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenwheeldancer Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Interesting stories from the Before Time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styopa Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 On 2/27/2016 at 6:22 PM, Mr Glorantha Pendragon said: Hello All Yes, MAR and I met several times at conventions. We got along famously. I once challenged him to a miniatures battle, the Lunar Army versus whatever Tekumel army he wished. All in good fun of course. Alas, he never took me up on it. I did once have a friend who would spend every summer in an ashram. He looked at Tekumel for three minutes or so and said, "Oh, this is SE Asian mythology." I used to think it was strange that someone would have gone to India and come home a muslim, but have since learned that India is the third largest muslim countries in the world, coming in right after Indonesia and Pakistan. I've spoken to many people who played in his campaign, and they all said he was one of the greatest gamemaster they had ever gamed with. "newbie" (guffaw) Thanks GS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Meints Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Ask questions... Keep Greg busy... He has an untapped and untold well of stories and secrets to tell. 3 Quote Hope that Helps,Rick Meints - Chaosium, Inc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott-martin Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 (edited) 9 hours ago, Rick Meints said: Ask questions... Keep Greg busy... He has an untapped and untold well of stories and secrets to tell. Well I can rise to the level of distraction machine! Two to start out with: you mentioned somewhere (maybe the orange Glorantha box) that you regretted not reading the theory of religion books they assigned back at Beloit. I can relate. Do you remember which books they were or even which classes you were taking or who the professors were? Second one is easy and fun. Warding cubes. Was that a reference to Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books that snuck in, or were she and the RQ group working independently from a shared common inspiration? Thanks, Edited March 10, 2016 by scott-martin clarity Quote singer sing me a given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Sentient animals -- baboons, ducks, morokanth; those seem to be "intentionally" PC'able, meant to be played in core Glorantha. Is that a correct impression? Any others in the "core"? Any others "meant to be" (originally overlooked, didn't fit pagecount, or planned for a later expansion) in the core? Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) On 3/11/2016 at 2:18 PM, g33k said: Sentient animals -- baboons, ducks, morokanth; those seem to be "intentionally" PC'able, meant to be played in core Glorantha. Is that a correct impression? Any others in the "core"? Any others "meant to be" (originally overlooked, didn't fit pagecount, or planned for a later expansion) in the core? Any sentient creature can be playable, even the notoriously excluded dragonewts or chaos creatures. All you need are background/profession bonuses for previous experience and a culture for magic/cults, but in reality you don't even need those. Edited March 13, 2016 by soltakss 1 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...
g33k Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 On 3/11/2016 at 10:32 AM, soltakss said: Any sentient creature can be playable, even the notoriously excluded dragonewts or chaos creatures. All you need are background/profession bonuses for previous experience and a culture for magic/cults, but in reality you don't even need those. "Can be played" is different from "meant to be played from RAW, without extra work" (fwiw, btw: there was a Dragonewt in my 2nd Glorantha campaign back in... 1981, that must have been) Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vile Traveller Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 All races were playable without modification under RQ2 RAW, because previous experience was an option in the appendices. The monster chapter had everything you needed to start play as a "16-year old" of pretty much any species. Trying out every conceivable race as player characters was one of the first things we did when we switched over from B/X D&D. Then someone read the appendices and everybody started playing 21-year old humans instead. Oh, for those lost days of innocence ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 11 hours ago, g33k said: "Can be played" is different from "meant to be played from RAW, without extra work" (fwiw, btw: there was a Dragonewt in my 2nd Glorantha campaign back in... 1981, that must have been) We had human, elf, dwarf, dark troll, great troll, minotaur, morocanth, centaur and duck PCs in our RQ2 campaign. The campaign before that, before I joined, had ogre, broo and vampire PCs. All the PCs worked well without any extra work. 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...
Lord High Munchkin Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 My first PC was a scorpion man - way back in 1979 when previous experience was only vaguely understood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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