Supplement Four
Mongoose
What's the general opinion on this Mongoose book? I've got it and just started flipping through it. But, already, a few things raise my eyebrow and make me wonder about the quality of the book.
I need to read it much closer than I have before I make an opinion, but, right here, on page 12, Cimmerian marriages. Marriage is almost always a political union, designed to forge new alliances, bring to an end old enmities, or advance the standing of the families involved.
I know Howard wrote next to nothing about Cimmerian marriage in his works, and I don't think there's much on it in the patstiches either. But, does this strike you as how the Cimmerians would look at marriage?
It seems a bit "off the mark" to me.
A paragraph or so about marriage in the book is fine, but then the author goes on for the next two and a half pages detailing a Cimmerian marriage ceremony? This is how the author decides to spend his pages?
I mean, how many of you will ever use this in a game? How important would a marriage in your Cimmerian game be? Would it ever pop up?
Again, this bodes bad for me and the rest of the book.
Thoughts?
I need to read it much closer than I have before I make an opinion, but, right here, on page 12, Cimmerian marriages. Marriage is almost always a political union, designed to forge new alliances, bring to an end old enmities, or advance the standing of the families involved.
I know Howard wrote next to nothing about Cimmerian marriage in his works, and I don't think there's much on it in the patstiches either. But, does this strike you as how the Cimmerians would look at marriage?
It seems a bit "off the mark" to me.
A paragraph or so about marriage in the book is fine, but then the author goes on for the next two and a half pages detailing a Cimmerian marriage ceremony? This is how the author decides to spend his pages?
I mean, how many of you will ever use this in a game? How important would a marriage in your Cimmerian game be? Would it ever pop up?
Again, this bodes bad for me and the rest of the book.
Thoughts?