The Plane Above - the Glorantha-fication of D&D?

[pemerton]

And I'm in the middle of reading a synopsis of Wagner's Ring Cycle, so I know ing metüll when I see it.)

I don't know if I'd call it metal, exactly - but the Ring Cycle, and especially the climax to the Gotterdammurang (sp?) - ie the bit from when Siegfreid meets the Rhine Maidens - got me through the last few months of my PhD.

 

[Bluenose]

Yeah I got Pavis & Big Rubble when it came out from MD. I neglected to mention those (as well as Griffin Mountain, yeesh, what an oversight!) I think my softcover of P&BR was around $40 ?, IIRC. I still prefer that old boxed format though..must be the "old school gamer" in me (and the boxed sets were more useful at the table, as the "common knowledge" books for the players were easily given to them, you had the separate maps, etc etc.)

In addition to all the cool stuff mentioned here about Glorantha, probably the thing I love best is that everything may be the truth, or may be a lie- it all depends on your cult's POV and there are contradictions everywhere. Just makes thing much more interesting, and certainly opens up alot of interesting RP opportunities (though it can get REALLY confusing at times)

No, no, no. Ift's not that it might or might not be true. It's that if you get enough people to believe it's true, then it becomes true. At least for them. And for their god/spirit/saint, and the world they inhabit, or the bits of it you visit.

Only God Learners go around thinking about whether things are true in the abstract. And you don't want to know what we do to them.

 

[bagger245]

Reading Plan Above reminds me of Exalted with all the god vs primordial stuff. I know both took inspiration from Greek legend, but Exalted did it first so I always feel like 4e's lore a semi-rip off.

 

[Plane Sailing]

a semi-rip off.

There is a fine line between rip-off, homage and inspiration.

Often the place where we draw the line says a lot about how happy we are with the situation!