SR - A Question Concerni

[Carolle Ternus]

hello Radegund here,

i'd like to address a couple of issues from Crystal's post.

Pendaran wrote:
 <<So here's the question:
what reasons are there for not creating a principality? I keep hearing
people countering the arguments being made in favor of the principality,
but I've yet to hear anyone give a reason against creating a
principality.>>

and then CAB wrote:

> First, I would like to say that I didn't know that we needed a reason NOT to
> change things.  I didn't realize that "We like it the way it is" isn't good
> enough.

i agree somewhat with what i think Crystal's saying.  i think having valid arguments
for and valid arguements against is essential to a reasoned discussion, but i also
feel the burden of providing convincing arguments should be on the shoulders of
those who think a change is a good idea.

> But, if you need a reason not to become a principality, I can give you a
> couple off the top of my head.
>
> 1) I don't want to be part of a principality of people who only want play with
> themselves and no one else.  (I can tell you that people from both the Coastal
> and Northern Regions believe that Austin and San Antonio people only play with
> their local groups.  Now, I know that this is a generalization, but it still
> seems pretty true when Stargate gets more knights to attend the Southern
> Regional Fighter practice than the Southern Region.
>

perhaps this is (also?) an issue of the arbitrariness of the regional boundaries.
it sounds like shadowlands and ravensfort have very close ties to stargate, a lot of
mutual interaction, etc.   why aren't SL and RF in the coastal region since it
appears that those ties are strongest?  please don't interpret this as i don't want
you in the southern region, go play with someone else.  i'm trying to evaluate the
group dynamic i've heard described.

i can't speak for bryn gwlad, but as a denizen of bjornsborg, i can say that we
don't travel as a group very much anymore.  we do have individuals and small groups
going hither and thither, but as a large, unruly mob, no, we don't travel.  perhaps
we should, or at least the individuals and small groups need to be a lot louder, so
as to trumpet the Bjornsborg presence. <g>

> 3) I don't want to be part of a principality that isn't even taking care of it
> own people.  I lived in the Shadowlands for 5 1/2 years  (during which time
> there was not one single peer living there) and I was seneschal there for a
> time.  And I didn't see the southern region making any effort to help us out.
> Now I will allow that there are a few individuals from this region that did
> come on occasion to help us,  but we got as much (if not more) support from
> Stargate than we ever got from the entire Southern region combined.

perhaps the reality of group dynamics should be reflected in the up-to-now partially
arbitrary regional boundaries. just a thought.

Radegund/Bjornsborg


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