Hey guys, I have been hanging out on the forum for a while and finally got myself to register a profile.
This post is mostly intended for Glorantha veterans who have a bigger picture of the game world than I.
Recently, I have been motivated about the Runequest Glorantha. I used to play Runequest a few times
in the 90´s and early 2000´s. Even participating in a few LARP events set in Glorantha and playing
one shots in RPG events. I never got too deep in the lore of it, until now. I have owned Glorantha
game material for a long time, though it has mostly just been gathering dust, if anything else.
Anyhow, now that I have started reading the game material with an intent (and have also ran a few
sessions, both in Sartar and Sun County) Glorantha has started to rub me the wrong way, so to say.
Don´t get me wrong, I absolutely love some of the ideas in the game world and absolutely abhor the
others. The prevalence of feminism and matriarchal power is just unbearable to me for I see TTRPG´s
as just about the only good escapes from this misandry in society and culture. I see it as kind of SJW
before SJW was a thing in RPG´s. Though, like mentioned earlier, I do see a huge potential in Glorantha,
if tweaked heavily. My problem rises from that since the mythology of it is so vast, small changes in the
early mythology might cause a snowball effect in later years.
I thought about posting this on the official Chaosium forum, though I decided against it for I would have
likely been banned from it due to their SJW/feminist/LTBTQ agenda, so I posted it here instead.
To counter what I see as a problem, I have pondered on several things:
1) Playing in Dara Happan culture, where Yelm is still the boss and/or Orlanth never overcame him and
Yelm´s men did sell Ernalda to troll slavers, what would that entail? Has anyone done this? There doesen´t
seem to be a lot of game material to cover this and I don´t know where to start. Any ideas?
2) What if Genert did not have daughters, but sons, whom form the Genertela and thus maybe minimizes the
the need for feminine Earth cults and their priestesses.
3) Does the game really need Feathered Horse Queen to grant the kingship to a ruler of Dragon Pass?
And if not, then what do you see as happening to the game world if FHQ´s never existed?
3) Vingans, Maran Gorians, Kallyr Starbrow, Leika Black Spear and other female warrior groups and
individuals, are they really essential in your oppinion?
4) Do the Uz/Troll culture need to be matriarchal, and if not, how to go about it? I mean, Only Old One/Ezkankekko,
Arkat the Troll and so forth, which basically were big bosses in not only Uz society but beyond, were
not female, which in my reasoning, kind of lessens the need for matriarchal power structure. What
if Kyger Litor was male instead, what would that entail?
5) It´s easy to do away with all the non-binary sexes and ways of marriage but would this cause any
problems?
6) It seems to me that almost all gender roles are twisted in the starting cultures of the core book. I mean in just
about all of them, women are the rational ones and males the emotional ones. I mean, it would basically mean
that "women" are the ones with testosterone dominancy ja "males" the ones with estrogene dominancy. Wouldn´t
that basically mean that in time, the genetic makeup of the gender are on a collision course with the chromosomes.
Yes, I know, it´s a fantasy game, though I still see this as silly, I mean that would basically mean that males give
birth and nurture the children and women are the warriors and earners, right?
Anyway, I know I had some other things in mind but I can´t come up with anything more. I´d love to hear your
thoughs on these, thanks!