Growing up in the wilderness of early RPGs, pre-interweb, etc., I wasn't as familiar with the lingo as I've gotten in the last few years. Specifically, for today's post, RAW/RAI (rules as written/intended).
But now I have a new conundrum: some sections in CT seem to have unlisted and unpublished rules. Such as the actual rules for the data of system placement and UWPs in the Spinward Marches (statistical analysis helps here), or the rules for building small spacecraft. We have half a dozen examples of the latter from launch to cutter and shuttle, but the rules whereby they were derived are not present. Do they use High Guard? Something else?
Which is my point here. Such hypothetical rules are, by definition, not RAW (not written). Nor are they really RAI. They may, inevitably, be somewhat nebulous, and vary from group to group, and include personal interpolations and additions, etc. But are they really House Rules, if they are intended to reflect the canonical craft?
So then, what are they? Rules As Derived/Deduced (RAD)? Is there an accepted lingo here, with which I happen to be unfamiliar? Is there a lacuna in the common language (and meme-chaosiverse)?
But now I have a new conundrum: some sections in CT seem to have unlisted and unpublished rules. Such as the actual rules for the data of system placement and UWPs in the Spinward Marches (statistical analysis helps here), or the rules for building small spacecraft. We have half a dozen examples of the latter from launch to cutter and shuttle, but the rules whereby they were derived are not present. Do they use High Guard? Something else?
Which is my point here. Such hypothetical rules are, by definition, not RAW (not written). Nor are they really RAI. They may, inevitably, be somewhat nebulous, and vary from group to group, and include personal interpolations and additions, etc. But are they really House Rules, if they are intended to reflect the canonical craft?
So then, what are they? Rules As Derived/Deduced (RAD)? Is there an accepted lingo here, with which I happen to be unfamiliar? Is there a lacuna in the common language (and meme-chaosiverse)?