[MR] Crwon Tourney, the SCA , and such.

[Alan MacNeill]

But Sir, your analogy misses the point...

Imagine there is a baking society, which bakes poundcakes.  There is a rule in place which says that poundcakes must have flour as their base ingrediant, but no other mandates are in place.

You have a poundcake recipe, and you are happy with it.  Other Chefs have generally used the same poundcake, and they are mostly content with it, and no one has altered the recipe for 30 some years.

But a baker somewhere decides that the recipe has a pinch too much salt in it for his taste, and decides to modify the "standard" recipe by reducing the salt by a pinch.  To ensure that the volume remains the same, he substitues another seasoning, perhaps garlic salt.

To many, the presence of garlic salt makes the poundcake inedible.  To some, however, it increases the flavor dramatically.  The introduction of the garlic salt was allowed by the rules of the baking society.

The resultant recipe is still a poundcake, and that chef hasn't changed *your* recipe one bit, instead creating his own regional variety.  Your chefs are still allowed to create the poundcake with table salt if they wish.

The Heads of the Baking Society find that they do not like garlic salt, and decide to change the rules to require the use of table salt only.

Why?  Who was being forced to change?  Some Master Chefs belive that allowing garlic salt could make it possible for some rogue seasoning to poison the recipe somehow...but there have been bad batches of table salt as well.

No one is proposing mandating Melee combat for the Kingmaking method.  Explain to me how Atlantia is harmed by allowing An Tir to choose their King by Melee.

Gorm of Berra 
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