- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Roderick and Ellen Robertson"
<rjremr_at_...> wrote:
>
>>
> A Kralori would just ignore the "Barbarian Customs". He would get
them
> enmeshed in Red Tape (or the Kralori equivalent), smiling and
nodding all
> the time while doing nothing because he "is waiting for someone
more
> exalted". Even if you managed to get him to commit to doing
something there
> would be a reason (Religious Celebration, peasant uprising, Dragon
Rumbles)
> that it *didn't* get done. Read about the Western trade missions
to China in
> the late 19th century (before the Opium Wars) to get a feel for
true
> Bureacratic inertia.
Or, for something closer to home, try the British televison
series "Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister" were it is refered to by
the more acceptable term "creative inertia". And inert, of course,
means that it is not ert!