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Send comments and/or criticism to Simon E. Phipp Copyright © 2006 Simon E. Phipp Created On 17 September 1997 Last Updated On 15 May 2006 |
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At the moment, I am running a weekly RQ Campaign in Pavis/Prax, having played in a HeroQuest campaign set in Far Point. It's early days but things seem to be going OK. I am also playing in a Pendragon Pass campaign that is played once a month and that's fun.
As a commited GM, I have tried writing various things for the campaign, and have even had some published - HeroQuesting in Tales of the Reaching Moon, Shadowmages and various others in Pavic Tales and a few things in Tradetalk. However, none of these were very good, so I gave up. The WWW gives me an opportunity to spread my views of Glorantha far and wide.
RQ-wise, I come from the "Blood and Guts" style of role-playing, preferring to play berserkers and kill-crazy nutters. As a GM, I prefer globe-spanning Heroic Campaigns, where the PCs can actually change things - in the current campaign, they have killed Ralzakark and Argrath, imprisoned Harrek in a Lunar Hell, Deafened (and subsequently healed) Xiola Umbar and all her Mistress Race Troll Priests, and reunited Balazar. They have resisted all of my attempts to start the Hero Wars by killing key NPCs, making treaties and performing HeroQuests, just because they are not yet ready. What they fail to realise is that anyone strong enough to delay the Hero Wars is already a part of them.
I am also a Gloranthaphile and believe that the world should coexist with the RQ set, but be independent. So Glorantha history, culture and religions should be able to stand on their own, but should relate to RQ rules where necessary. I am always on the look out for new Gloranthan material - the main reason why I have gone online.
In real life, I am an IT Manager for a Flude Hosiery, a hosiery company which means I spend my day surrounded by pictures of scantily-clad women - our Trade journals consist of pictures of lingerie-clad models, but I only read them for the articles.
I've worked on an archaeological dig, as part of the Raunds Project, and various casual jobs, including warehouseman, gardener data entry clerk and barman. When I first told my wife about what I used to do for a living, she wasn't particularly impressed, then I heard her on the phone telling her friend "... and Simon was a Barman!".
In the past few years, I have worked for Walsh Western in Ireland and ATMS in Birmingham as a Senior Software Engineer (Programmer with knobs on) - simply because that's the job I drifted into - and have lived in such exotic places as Coventry, Crewe, Naas, Dublin, Clondalkin, Moscow and Birmingham. I spent five months in Moscow, enjoying every minute of it, and came back with a lovely wife.
I studied Maths at University and would have got a better grade but for the fact that the RQ3 rules came out at the start of my third year second term - did I (a) study for my finals or [b] learn the new rules inside out and make extensive comparisons with RQ2? Make your choices now.
A few years ago, I became a Mormon, so I know all about gifts, geases, rituals and cult secrets.
