Jonas Schiött:
> At least that one's easy to clear up: the Secrets are explicitly _not_
> mystical powers, they just use the same rules. And are just as
> inefficient.. ;-)
Methinks the resemblance is not entirely accidental, though. In terms of world penalties of course, this is entirely correct.
> The whole of the HW rules are God Learnery. And yes, I understand the
> division of the otherworlds to be objective. There is also one and only
> one objectively correct way to communicate with each otherworld.
In the sense that 'each otherworld' is essentially _defined as_ 'that part of the Other Side which is most efficiently communicable with by a particular method', yes. But I don't think the idea of there being three, discrete, completely separarable otherworlds is itself 'objectively correct' -- it's just a useful approximation to the truth, for many purposes (like building an empire based on exploiting others' magic, or writing games about the place).
> I think it's obvious that this is not the case for all the examples on
> p.247-50. Also, if you do it a certain way for long enough, it would
> become subjectively right and the penalties should go away.
Sounds about right to me. Or at least, either this happens, or you become extinct. ;-)
Cheers,
Alex.
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