Alter Aeon Online Help

Keywords are:  'caselaw law'

Sometimes, problems or situations arise that are not explicitly covered
by the game rules.  When a situation or problem is not covered by existing
game rules, one of three things may happen:

1) A new rule may be written.

2) A decision or judgement may be made to resolve the problem as best
the judge can.  This is called "creating case law".

3) A decision or judgement may be made based on how previous situations
were handled.  This is called "using case law".


In other words, case law is the concept of using past decisions to
help make future decisions.  Case law helps to define grey areas, and
helps to make the judgement process more fair and repeatable.  While
it is not perfect, it is often the best approach for new or situations.

If a lot of case law is created on a particular topic, this may cause
a new rule to be written, which supercedes all previous case law
covered by the new rule.  It is important to remember that explicit
rules always supercede case law.

In Alter Aeon, case law is currently posted on a board in the Temple
of Dentin in Ralnoth.  There are very few case law entries as of this
writing.  Dentin hopes he won't have to create more.