From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 27 Jul 2000 - 01:55:59 EEST
Charles Corrigan:
> Greg announced at Convulsion that the Hero Plane bordered equally on
> all of the otherworlds and that it was not preferentially associated
> with the Theist Otherside - as already mentioned by Michael Cule.
> While this resolves several problems, it breaks other things.
It does? You don't name any, and I can't personally think of
'em... It was pretty much already clear that there was at least
the equivalent of the HeroPlane for all the methods: all that
Greg has 'clarified' is that they're effectively merged together
in such a way that all methods are in principle 'equally correct'
throughout, just as they are in the Inner World.
> By his own admission, Greg had only "realised" this about two
> hours before he told us all, so there is a good chance that this will
> change again.
Let's hope not. I doubt he 'realized' most of what went into HW
on this topic with any clearer foresight, anyway... I have no
doubt that some people are trying to change it back for him, but
perhaps they'll remain Refuted.
> I am saddened by the loss of unique environments of the
> different Otherworlds that PCs would have to visit as part of their
> quests.
All we've lost are some cheesily artificial methodology penalties,
surely. No one is suggesting that different worldviews don't
experience different things, after all. Rather the objection
is to the idea that you could neatly partition up the Other
Side, and say it was 'always' the case (apart from all the
exceptions, which contrary to the proverb have never 'proved'
_any_ rule) that a given part could only be correctly experienced
by one of four different methods. Personally, I'm not opposed
to the idea that there are _some_ portions of the HeroPlane
where those some some viewpoints are advantaged to those with
another (though often likely on a finer-grainer basis that the
four 'systems'), I just dislike the idea you can neatly slice the
whole world up that way like a quiche lorraine serving a hungry
family of four.
> I am certain that I remember Greg stating in some forum that
> Sorcerers Town on the Lightbringers Quest is on the Sorcerous
> Otherside.
Another problem solved, then. How much sense did it ever make
to say you could only understand a theistic heroquest by going
outside of the theistic worldview?
> Another part of the problem is that once you travel to the edges of the
> world, it is also considered to be part of the Hero Plane.
Why would this be a problem? This has always been an aspect of the
definition of the Hero Plane. It's not clear to me that there was
ever likely to have been a sensible answer to 'which' heroplane
you end up in by walking off a given direction, being of some
possibly different magic system oneself.
Cheers,
Alex.
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