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11-13-2007, 06:06 PM
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Lawful Good Anarchist
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Re: [RPG]: RuneQuest (3rd Edition), reviewed by Lev Lafayette (4/5)
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Originally Posted by Lev Lafayette
You know, I think I could have saved myself a lot of trouble if I kept the paragraph which mentioned the problems with sorcery, Sandy Petersen's link to his alternative sorcery rules and Greg Stafford's recent admission on a Glorantha list that they hadn't playtested it sufficiently. But I (in hindsight inappropriately) decided to delete it because two paragraphs on magic was enough.
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Way old, but through searching through my temp.txt file I've actually found the paragraph I deleted and wished I hadn't... It probably would have cleared up a lot of the debate before it started.
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It is acknowledged that Sorcery was not sufficiently play-tested prior to publication, however it is hardly a disasterous implementation by any stretch of the imagination. Further, alternative rules well embedded in the Glorantha milleiu have been written by Sandy Petersen which are widely adopted.
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