- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "L.Castellucci"
<lightcastle_at_...> wrote:
>
> 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.
The key phrase is _fleshed out properly_. Someone wants to write a
book based around penetrating Harrek's wolf pirates and freeing
prisoners, then including a full write-up of Harrek and his stats
might well be entirely appropriate and germane. But if, say, Jeff K
had wanted to use the fact that there was a rumour on p50 of BOG that
Harrek was about as an excuse to include a one-paragraph summary of
his stats, I wouldn't have passed that because it was neither
necessary nor a proper treatment. (That's just an example: Jeff's a
pro and wouldn't have tried anything like this)
All the best
Mark