Re: Epic NPCs and their stats

From: L.Castellucci <lightcastle_at_oXORZCCQrqk56lIlXNUmp5dv9rmsq74EfAqW7xTjc-wm2CtQtBciN0LjGaDTN5en>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:10:48 -0400

I'm confused. You decided to keep unknown things unkown so that when someone came along to try and write them, you could do so right away, which would then make the unknown known - contradicting your stated policy?

*grin*

LC

On August 20, 2007 05:07 pm, Mark Galeotti wrote:
> One of my great beliefs when I was MD's Acquisitions Tsar was
> precisely to keep what did not need to be known or what could not be
> fleshed out properly, unknown. Not as part of some malign plot
> against the buying punter, but to ensure that when someone comes
> along with some great new take on some region, hero, conflict or
> faith, we can commission them straight away, without (a) telling them
> that they had to change their ideas to conform with canon or (b)
> deliberately rewriting canon and causing the consequent dismay.