[Steppes] "off-calendar" event

[Jay Rudin]

I get the feeling that some people are using the phrase "off-calendar event" in a sense isn't equivalent to its actual meaning, and that;'s part of why we aren't communicating.

Before we get too far, let's remember what an "off-calendar event" is.  Technically, it's not an event.  It's the legal equivalent of a fighter practice or a guild meeting.

I would no more have Artisan at an off-calendar event than I would have Warlord at a fighter practice, and for the same reasons.

I also don't want to see Twelfth Night as an off-calendar event, for similar reasons.  (It's not the same reasons, because we don't choose any Steppes ceremonial Champions there.)

Let's remember, in this discussion, that an off-calendar event is not an event, just as an empty beer isn't a beer and a retired seneschal isn't a seneschal.

Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin