12-12-2014, 07:37 PM
RULES
One of my other goals with this site also remains the same: Create as few rules as possible. I am going to do my very best to keep sitewide rulings to a minimum for all of our sakes.
Rule #1: NO RAZING OF SYSTEMS OR THEIR NPCS
If you’re taking over an established system (which as of 12/12/2014 is all of them), you must be willing to work with what’s already been established. So no burning down of established chantries and no killing off of system NPCs.
Whether or not you can play someone else’s NPCs will be up to the person who created them. For example, Sam’s already told me it’d be too weird if someone else played Ellsworth, Luke, or Trent in the Mage system. It’ll be up to him if they fade into the background of the Denver game, to be used in any storylines he chooses to run or act as advisors, or if they’ll disappear out of the Mage game altogether.
But, Errin, I really want to run…
If you have a really strong idea for a system overhaul and the previous setting hasn’t gone into hibernation, then let me set you up with a Pocket Game to get things started. WoDD is a non-crossover site, and I have no problem having multiples of the same system going, so long as everyone understands that they can’t play one character in all of them. That’s right, I’m lifting the current 2-Game limit in place for PGs.
But, Errin, I really don’t want…
If you really can’t imagine letting someone else take over the setting you created and there are still players interested in doing things in it, I will move the current setting into a Pocket Game until it can come to a conclusion. This is where we’re going to have to be flexible and trust each other.
Don’t go crazy with rules/judgment changes
I’m sure there are rulings and judgments that’ve been made in all of the systems that not everyone agrees with, but please don’t come in and rip down a majority of previously established rulings straight out of the gate. Try to limit what you’re changing to what affects what you or your system’s players are actually working on at that time. This is another place where we’ll have to be flexible and trust each other, but consider your players.
Rule #2: END OF YEAR CULLS
For the majority of the year, individual Storytellers will determine for themselves if they’ll allow things like continuity journals or not. The only exception to this will be the start of someone else’s term, which will always be the first day that journals are due for the previous month regardless of system.
On the first month of a Storyteller’s term, any character that hasn’t submitted a journal claiming credit for three months (including the month of the current journal cycle) will be put in Retired status.
This is so that new Storytellers will have an idea of their actual playerbase and character demographics.
This is it for rules for now. This list may be added to or have things removed from it, or rules might be altered. Any time this happens I’ll make an announcement in the Don’t Freak Out thread.
(After a period of about a month this post will be moved into the Sitewide Rulings thread)
One of my other goals with this site also remains the same: Create as few rules as possible. I am going to do my very best to keep sitewide rulings to a minimum for all of our sakes.
Rule #1: NO RAZING OF SYSTEMS OR THEIR NPCS
If you’re taking over an established system (which as of 12/12/2014 is all of them), you must be willing to work with what’s already been established. So no burning down of established chantries and no killing off of system NPCs.
Whether or not you can play someone else’s NPCs will be up to the person who created them. For example, Sam’s already told me it’d be too weird if someone else played Ellsworth, Luke, or Trent in the Mage system. It’ll be up to him if they fade into the background of the Denver game, to be used in any storylines he chooses to run or act as advisors, or if they’ll disappear out of the Mage game altogether.
But, Errin, I really want to run…
If you have a really strong idea for a system overhaul and the previous setting hasn’t gone into hibernation, then let me set you up with a Pocket Game to get things started. WoDD is a non-crossover site, and I have no problem having multiples of the same system going, so long as everyone understands that they can’t play one character in all of them. That’s right, I’m lifting the current 2-Game limit in place for PGs.
But, Errin, I really don’t want…
If you really can’t imagine letting someone else take over the setting you created and there are still players interested in doing things in it, I will move the current setting into a Pocket Game until it can come to a conclusion. This is where we’re going to have to be flexible and trust each other.
Don’t go crazy with rules/judgment changes
I’m sure there are rulings and judgments that’ve been made in all of the systems that not everyone agrees with, but please don’t come in and rip down a majority of previously established rulings straight out of the gate. Try to limit what you’re changing to what affects what you or your system’s players are actually working on at that time. This is another place where we’ll have to be flexible and trust each other, but consider your players.
Rule #2: END OF YEAR CULLS
For the majority of the year, individual Storytellers will determine for themselves if they’ll allow things like continuity journals or not. The only exception to this will be the start of someone else’s term, which will always be the first day that journals are due for the previous month regardless of system.
On the first month of a Storyteller’s term, any character that hasn’t submitted a journal claiming credit for three months (including the month of the current journal cycle) will be put in Retired status.
This is so that new Storytellers will have an idea of their actual playerbase and character demographics.
This is it for rules for now. This list may be added to or have things removed from it, or rules might be altered. Any time this happens I’ll make an announcement in the Don’t Freak Out thread.
(After a period of about a month this post will be moved into the Sitewide Rulings thread)