How soon things change ...

[binidj]

I know I shouldn't go anywhere near it, but every now and then something prompts me to go to the Harts website. Of course once I'm there I just can't help sniffing around and occasionally I dig up something like the following in the Ancestors of Albion section:

The Architect
The Architect was originally an Imperial ancestor and one that lost much power after the destruction of the Empire. He represents wealth, prosperity and civilisation ... and encourages his followers to see such things as signs of personal growth. Worship of the Architect is on the increase, especially in the southern duchies of Cornwall and Winchester. He is however often shunned by Albion's more tribal races (such as the elves).

Now I know this is bollocks on account of how I helped JFS to write it. Ordfinarily I wouldn't bother to raise this but I was fairly sure that confirmation that this was utter bollocks had been found by players several years ago.

I know it's none of my business any more but still ... it's annoying to see something that you have written and were once quite proud of, changed beyond all recognition. A bit like CS Lewis coming back to discover that Jadis had been re-written as one of Aslan's helpers.

Comments

[ephraim.livejournal.com]

offer them copies (or even the originals - they don't need them now) of their old notes - the unpublished stuff, that said what they had planned as background.

Done it. Mr Doran has had the whole of my archive, in an attempt to keep some continuity.

And if I come across as bitter, then it's because I am still bitter. When you throw some much effort, time and heartache into a thing, to have it dismissed by those that come after you is hurtful - even if sometimes it is the right thing to do to keep current players of the game happy.

I try not to look back, as gazing backwards makes me annoyed; but every so often something like this comes along and makes me glance backwards in fury. Its probably not worthy. Its certainly not healthy. But, I'm not going to pretend that its not the way I feel.

Apologies if it offends your sensibilities.

[castorlion.livejournal.com]

When you throw some much effort, time and heartache into a thing, to have it dismissed by those that come after you is hurtful

And sometimes it's not being dismissed. Sometimes it's genuine error. Inevitably, people make mistakes, and to sit there and boil in fury because they've decided to rewrite something you wrote 7 years ago is sometimes doing an injustice to people who are simply trying to carry on the legacy.

During my time on plot team, I didn't have access to information about everything, and I made mistakes about the stuff I did have information on. I wasn't perfect, far from it. But neither was I cackling in the dark about how I was maligning someone's efforts by rewriting what they wrote.