Tibor You can usually win a war before it starts if you have the power to define the terms. Unknown Any Sovereign or Consort who tries to hold any other office will be declared ipso facto insane. No matter how many times you've sewn something before, it will not come out right the week before you leave for Pennsic. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. If we reduced our Peerages to a quantifiable list of goals and metrics, we'd get ONLY those things.
Some people say great power gives great responsibility.
This is nonsense. Whatever you find when you first encounter the SCA is something you percieve as having always existed, even it was invented a couple days before. In a vast and incompetent bureaucracy like the SCA, it is easier to gain forgiveness than to obtain permission. Going to Coronation for the fighting is like going to church for the tapioca pudding. You can't legislate having a clue.