We had three requests for membership today, something of a record, even though one of them committed the unpardonable sin of calling me Simon Phipps not Simon...
... I'm just glad to know the list isn't entirely desceased. Most of my recent efforts have been focused on an alternate prehistory background I've been...
... It was probably me... I am horrible with names when I am not feeling well, and I wasn't when I asked to join... and I have been reading articles by...
Greetings Bo, It's good to meet another long time devotee of RQ. Since I knew & gamed with Steve Perrin & Greg Stafford (Iwas stationed up there & did the SCA...
Thanks for the welcome Sven... or is it Les? : ) Or is Les your brother? Yep, I played D&D in 77 for about 3 months... found RQ and never played D&D again. I...
Nope, Les, is my first name, Yccchhhh!!!! I got so much grief for it as a kid. Louise was editing the credits off of the SCA Heraldy files & didn't realise I...
Hi gang ... A friend of mine (my current RQII GM actually) is busy 'converting' Mesopotamian mythology into RQII cults. Maybe you should send him an invitation...
Hiya All I have set up alternateearthrq on Geocities to give a bit more information on Alternate Earth. I want to put finished articles and links on the site,...
I like what you are looking at Stephen. Since recently watching a documentary about Neanderthals on BBC Prime I have been toying with that what if type idea as...
... Neanderthals are fascinating! Growing evidence that they had a sort of "parallel civilization" when our ancestors came along and were far from the primtive...
... Live steel? Never went that far, myself. I always used blunt steel. My maitre had this funny thing about "dead students can't pay" when it came to the...
... They also probably aren't the peace-loving telepathic angels that the hippie crowd has made them out to be, either, nor do they seem to have been nearly as...
The term "Live steel" is often used to include rebated weapons (blunted) as well as sharpened blades, to differentiate them from wooden wasters, rattan,...
... (blunted) as well as sharpened blades, to differentiate them from wooden wasters, rattan, Olympic style blades, etc. However, that being said, I've also...
I've a few comments on the file for Ireland: The so-called "Ossian Cycle" is an 18th or 19th century fraud. It never existed before it was "discovered". There...
From encyclopedia.com: Ossian - (sh´en) or Oisin , legendary Gaelic poet, supposedly the son of Finn mac Cumhail , hero of a cycle of tales and poems that...
I take issue with the idea that Christianity could not work in Alternate Earth because of some supposed innate hostility that Christianity has to magic. Yes,...
Hi gang 15th century Zheng He's sea voyages have already been mentioned on the list. I found an article on the internet about even earlier contact between...
... I agree absolutely. Early "grimoires" were written from the perspective of a "Christian" magician who was performing these acts only by virtue of their...
... Except that the vanilla RuneQuest approach to this would be quite antithetical to the "Byzantine" approach to Saints. Saints do not have "portfolios" or...
... I understand what you're trying to convey, but I do question how long and how genuinely something like that attitude was actually in play. Humans seem to...
... To the present day. I'm an "Eastern" Orthodox Christian, and we don't have "patron saints" the way the West developed them. Some saints might be...
... I wasn't trying to call the tenets of your faith into question; I only meant to point out a GENERAL tendency I've observed among human cultures. You're...
... Yes, I had heard that before. However, I am less interested in historical fact than mythic fantasy. For the Alternate Earth setting, I have no problems...
... don't ... of "intercessors" of ... wonder ... stamped ... saints"? This is exactly the reason that I am wary of writing up current religions in RuneQuest....
... You erred and erred most severely. ... There is evidence that quite a lot of communication went on beetween the Eastern Church and the Irish missions. ...
On Sunday, June 20, 2004 3:11 PM, "Simon Phipp" <soltakss@...> ... A few loose ideas on how to model Christianity. To me it makes more sense to design a...
... This could work, to some extent. However, it raises a problem: In general, it has only been those of great holiness--the saints--who were said to...
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