On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Joel Elfman wrote: > Since it was perhaps my mistaken impression that a good percentage of > the Taltheran navy had rebeled and joined the Kaier, it is my personal > opinion if you wrote orders for that portion of the navy you are in > technical violation of the rules. On the other hand as I have stated if > you change your orders slightly and write them as if the Kaieran Naval > officers on rebel ships are giving commands to the rebel portion of the > Taltheran navy you are entirely w/in the rules. You are only writing > orders for your people and the Taltherans make a die roll to respond. > It creates some interesting twists and turns, and can have some effect > on actions. > > It would be nice if some day the GMs or Juuso came along and issued > some clarificatons. Fundamentally, it is the GM who decides, not the rules, so everything below is Subject TO GM Approval (STOGMA), but since I have been invoked: Technically I feel that Joel is right. Just to keep matters straightforward, all actions should be performed, and written, from the viewpoint of the player's own society - even if they effect or even happen within some other society. Societies within other societies are of course very sensitive in this sense. Note that although the players in question may very well know what *actually* happens, using the correct wording helps in keeping the actions clear for everybody else, too. juuso PS. The below is slightly off-track, so you can ignore it. On the other hand (I'm an engineer, so for me there's always also the other hand in every issue :-), it would be entirely possible to change/bend the rules so that writing (or *suggesting*) actions for other societies would be a valid approach. I myself have stepped over this line once or twice. Or tried to: I think it was actually Joel who denied me the priviledge to do so in Elyria game a year or two back... ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
