Re: Raaterovian definition

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:26:28 GMT


Mikael Raaterova replies to me:
> >Last rules draft I saw somewhat soft-pedalled this point; it was
> >something like 'GM may suggest adjusting one or the other', or some
> >such wooly nonsense. ;-)
>
> As i recall, there was a _lot_ of spine-lacking soft-pedalling in the rules.

It's something of the nature of the beast: a storytelling methology requires the ref to be flexible and adaptive, so it would be silly, and bordering on the oxymoronic, for it to get get too angsty and prescriptive about exactly _how_ one should be flexible and adaptive... (The eternal paradox of liberalism, eh?)

> >I invoke your name, Mikael, not as being
> >out of step in any sense with the Orthodoxy, just as being dependably
> >hard-core about it... <gdr>
>
> So that's the definition of 'raaterovian' then?

Well, not quite: it would mean somethinh Mikael would be likely to say, so yes, when it comes to HW Storytelling, there it means 'hard-core Orthodox'...

Cheers,
Alex.


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