To each his own views on that I guess.
To be clear, I am not against retconning and I can understand that in a lot of cases it can be a good tool to use, especially on very minor details or embarrassing stuff that you would like to get rid of.
I just happen to think that it's the easy way to get out of the problem, that it's highly inelegant, and most of all, it can show an unwillingness to deal with the consequences of one's own RP (and yes, again, not your fault here). But it can be a basic denial of what you did with other people. Now then, I understand here it's mostly between one player, and a player that left, and as I said, everyone is free to do what make the thing more enjoyable for them! I just tend to think of other people before myself most of the time, which might be why I have a differing viewpoint on that.
Now then, were there other people around? Did that wedding impact many players and characters? Are you going to go tell them "actually no, that wedding didn't happen, you weren't invited, and all the nice RP you got out of it is actually void because I say so" ? That's what makes me think it can be a slippery slope and lead to pretty bad form scenari.
Again, do as you wish though, I'm mainly voicing the unorthodox point of view I guess...
To be clear, I am not against retconning and I can understand that in a lot of cases it can be a good tool to use, especially on very minor details or embarrassing stuff that you would like to get rid of.
I just happen to think that it's the easy way to get out of the problem, that it's highly inelegant, and most of all, it can show an unwillingness to deal with the consequences of one's own RP (and yes, again, not your fault here). But it can be a basic denial of what you did with other people. Now then, I understand here it's mostly between one player, and a player that left, and as I said, everyone is free to do what make the thing more enjoyable for them! I just tend to think of other people before myself most of the time, which might be why I have a differing viewpoint on that.
Now then, were there other people around? Did that wedding impact many players and characters? Are you going to go tell them "actually no, that wedding didn't happen, you weren't invited, and all the nice RP you got out of it is actually void because I say so" ? That's what makes me think it can be a slippery slope and lead to pretty bad form scenari.
Again, do as you wish though, I'm mainly voicing the unorthodox point of view I guess...
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