Re: discussed rule changes

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

Much stuff deleted for brevity.

Having everyone and their brother be involved with every
single decision on an intimate level is just a bad idea.  There
should be a final arbiter(s) of what does and doesn't get used.
In the past thats been Dan, and I'm perfectly content to
see that continue, and will advocate such.  When this all
began and a time or two since then, its always been stated
that dan is the Campaign/World master.  i.e. the Final
arbiter, and that this list was PURELY for suggestion, and
that nothing said on it would be final or binding.

Even the votes that have been held didn't really make grand
and sweeping changes.  They were us getting together and saying
yeah, we agree with such and such idea, now Dan ratify it or
don't.

Hmmm..best example I can think of is that we(the GMs) are the
Congress, and Dan is president.  We come up with the cooky
ideas, write'em up, may be play test'em a  bit, and then
hand it over to Dan for ratification and implimentation.
But still in the end, Dan is the final voice on what flys and
what doesn't.  As I said before, I fully agree with this
view and approach.

Otherwise we have a democracy, a thing which doesn't work
real well, and you get a few people who push and push and
push for something to get put in that not everyone agrees
with, and gets done cause people are tired of it.  Then 
when folks look back and realize something is a bad idea
those folks can say "Hey, wasn't me, all of you voted
for it."  This way we have someone who is responsible, and
who can ultimately shoot down the crackbrained ideas
that we come up with.  God knows I've had a few that
needed shot down.

In the end, its about checks and balanecs.  I don't agree
with everything Dan does, and would like to see him rule
more on things, and may be listen more to what we say.  But
i'm not going to try and go around him, or try and
say he has no say in this.

There has to be a final authority, and that final authority
is Dan, otherwise we get anarchy.

Wright