Posts Tagged by Cloak of Ignorance
| February 16, 2009 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
We’ve all been there. A mistake is created when a rule is misinterpreted or misapplied, but not caught by the group. Later on, for some reason, the mistake becomes apparent. The overwhelming temptation is to go back in time and retcon* the initial event, and fix the mistake. Retcon – Contraction of “Retroactive Continuity”, or a rewrite of an event established in the past. Common in long-running comic books and soap operas. Sounds tempting, doesn’t it? And after all, if it’s used in comic books,…
