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  Simon E. Phipp(Geo Cities)
  Simon E. Phipp(Work - Birmingham)

# Description

I have been playing RuneQuest for far too long - since 1982. In 1985, I started playing with a different group of people in a multi-GM, loose, high level campaign of the "Blood and Guts" variety. I have GMd the remnants of the campaign since around 1990 in a very high level campaign. The campaign has eased off a bit but we are planning to use email and the telephone to perform most of the background work and then play two or three times a year, if only to see old friends again.

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. 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 (more than 100 pages of RQ material converted to Amipro documents so far!)

In real life, I am a Senior Software Engineer (Programmer with knobs on) for an Irish transport company - Walsh Western (don't worry - I hadn't heard of them either until I joined them) - simply because that's the job I drifted into - and was relocated from Coventry to Crewe and then to Ireland where I work in Clondalkin and live in Naas, and then to Moscow for five months, enjoying every minute of it. 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.

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