tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post6512695409471424230..comments2024-03-29T07:58:31.156-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Different Worlds: Issue #22James Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-91160142822218394512021-07-08T07:56:09.681-04:002021-07-08T07:56:09.681-04:00Said the anime heroine. :)Said the anime heroine. :)Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-27115475398303136462021-07-07T15:27:28.904-04:002021-07-07T15:27:28.904-04:00Thumbs, like tentacles, can be needless distractio...Thumbs, like tentacles, can be needless distractions.John E. Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424841103552780730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-35408117104950361332021-07-07T11:53:08.299-04:002021-07-07T11:53:08.299-04:00Thanks. And I didn't even mention thumbs. :)...Thanks. And I didn't even mention thumbs. :)Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-35423604762319054532021-07-06T21:01:37.540-04:002021-07-06T21:01:37.540-04:00I personally love the Conan the Barbarian soundtra...I personally love the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack. I will have to queue that up to listen to again soon. Quinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847507721334122401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-34157509796588799192021-07-06T18:55:37.051-04:002021-07-06T18:55:37.051-04:00That is as good a short, clear intro to the Moroka...That is as good a short, clear intro to the Morokanth as any I've seen. Nice work, Mr. McGee.John E. Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424841103552780730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-84220314353861678052021-07-06T13:26:23.502-04:002021-07-06T13:26:23.502-04:00I searched this one out in my early RQ days becaus...I searched this one out in my early RQ days because it was the "special RQ" issue. I seem to recall that not long after I ordered it (via mail) it was the victim of a Roy Rogers chocolate milkshake dice roll mishap caused by one of my players, so I trashed it. Fun times (and good milkshakes!)JEFFBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08862106711059104379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-69548856458532486702021-07-06T13:11:04.894-04:002021-07-06T13:11:04.894-04:00"...morokanth are an aspect of Glorantha that..."...morokanth are an aspect of Glorantha that's nearly impossible to explain easily..."<br /><br />Hmmm, a challenge.<br /><br />The plains of Prax are inhabited by many tribes of beast nomads, each associated a breed of animal that serves as their mounts and herd animals. In mythological pre-history the men and beasts were both capable of speech and reason, but when the hard times came they held a series of contests to decide which of them would become true animals and which would herd and care for them as livestock so that all would survive. Humans won every contest but one. The beasts of what is now the morokanth tribe won their contest and kept their reason despite their animalistic shapes, while the humans they defeated became herd-men, who are simple animals in human form. The other tribes resent the morokanth (who surely must have cheated somehow) but acknowledge them as part of Praxian culture, neither better nor worse than other tribes, just different. The morokanth are sometimes accused of stealing true humans and turning them to herd-beasts with cult magic, something that rarely happens and then only to the worst of outlaws. Most other Praxians do see the herd-men as the animals they are, but outsiders often confuse them with slaves and the consumption of their meat as cannibalism, which further taints the morokanth's reputation.<br /><br />That's about as succinct as I can manage, but it should do as a primer. Show a newbie a picture of a morokanth and a herd-man with it and I think it should be comprehensible enough. :)Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-27156851671737963162021-07-06T12:47:34.107-04:002021-07-06T12:47:34.107-04:00Looking around for the "King Lout" modul...Looking around for the "King Lout" module shows that it wasn't well-received when The Space Gamer reviewed it either ("not worth the money") and although they weren't all that harsh with it ("as good as just about anything out there") the review sounds a bit on the lazy side to me. Probably one of their little micro-reviews rather than a proper article, I had the issue but don't recall it despite many of the other contents being clear in memory. Had a neat Striker review that got me to buy it, the third and final part in a terrific Traveller adventure they'd been running, and a short story about a newbie superhero that still stands out in my mind. Good stuff - if you ever get done with DW maybe you should do a TSG retrospective? :)<br /><br />The adventure was apparently a folder with a bunch of loose pages and maps inside it. Somewhat noteworthy for being a generic module that used something they called "infinity stats" that could be plugged in to any system - which is likely due to the publisher being the amusingly-named Infinity Limited rather than the application of transfinite numbers to RPG stats. :)<br /><br />I didn't dislike the Conan movie, although it certainly isn't faithful to the original stories. As a fairly dumb fantasy film I thought it was fine, though. Then again, I'm one of those madmen who unironically enjoys watching the sequel as well, and still think it has one of my favorite on-screen wizard duels (however brief) of all time. "First one whose brain catches fire loses" seems like a fine win condition to me.Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-85151479105664336882021-07-06T11:13:09.145-04:002021-07-06T11:13:09.145-04:00I remember this a favourite issueI remember this a favourite issueAndrew Shermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05307943791144063866noreply@blogger.com