Jan. 29, 2008Chronicle Removal - LaCrosse |
Pass: 7Fail: 0 |
The La Crosse chronicle has been on hiatus for over 18 months, as per the discussion held at the 2007 Twin Cities Wyalusing event a vote should be take to remove a dead chronicle from the org. If the decision is to remove the chronicle from the organisation, all players in the chronicle will be given two months from the vote closing date to transfer their characters to an active chronicle in the organization. |
Jan. 29, 2008Admin Policy Change - Voting Procedures |
TIE BROKE: EXO voted FailPass: 2 |
All non-election discussions and proposals ending in a Board vote must be initiated by a voting Board Member Storyteller. It is encouraged that proposals, when appropriate, are first posted in Working Rough Draft form for discussion on the ST List prior to submission to the Board List.
At minimum, the Board must adhere to the following procedure:
All votes done by the board need a 51 % majority of total chronicles in the org to pass, except changes to the Core 10 Bylaws and Legend Rank approvals, which need a two-thirds majority of total chronicles in the org to pass. In the event of a tie, the EXO makes the final decision from the tied options. |
Feb. 4, 2008Admin Policy Change: Rite of Renunciation Write-Up |
Pass: 5Fail: 2 |
Garou seldom feel the need for this rite, but it's very important on the occasions when it matters at all. With this rite, a Garou gives up her auspice and joins another. It must be performed during the phase of the moon she wants to adopt. The usual form of this rite calls for pouring water from a silver basin exposed to moonlight over the supplicant, symbolically washing away the old life. The Rite of Renunciation allows the Garou to give up her current auspice and station to claim another. She must adopt a new name, and give up all but three permanent Renown Traits, thereby starting over at Rank 1; Any and all traits and tempers that are above Rank 1 trait maximums are removed from the character's sheet, with experience point refunds at the Storytellers' discretion. She doesn't lose the Gifts she knows, but cannot learn any more from the list for the old auspice; At the end of the Rite of Renunciation she may ask a spirit to teach her the first Gift suitable to her new Auspice.
Renunciation is sometimes assigned as punishment for crimes that don't quite warrant death. It's also sometimes a way of coping with grief, when a Garou wishes to continue living but can't deal with a series of horrible losses and feels a new identity would help isolate the old pain. Sometimes an internal sense of failure motivates the flight to a new identity. Sometimes the Garou simply realizes that what she does best isn't what her auspice does best. As far as the Garou Nation is concerned, She has been given a second chance. Other garou, with the exception of pack mates (although they must still use her new name), should treat her as a new person, having met her for the first time. While it is acceptable for the Garou to acknowledge who she was, it is not acceptable to claim the deeds from the previous life, including those concerning human society. This ritual is intended to be a way to rise above past failures, and should not be undertaken lightly. It is not a "get out of jail free" card, and to use it as such is scandalous and opens the Garou to being punished as such, and sometimes earns punishment for the original crime. TGN characters who have undergone this ritual should have it noted, along with the previous identity's name and auspice, in the "Notes" section of their character sheet. Also, TGN does not use the following statement from the table top core rulebook on page 185: "Only when a Garou again attains her previous rank may she reestablish old friendships." |
Feb. 10, 2008New Chronicle - Probationary Admission of Ft. Lauderdale |
Pass: 5Fail: |
Chronicle Application Hidden |
Feb. 25, 2008New Chronicle - Probationary Admission of Hammond |
Pass: 6Fail: 0 |
Chronicle Application Hidden |
June 12, 2008New Chronicle - Probationary Admission of Brooksville, FL |
Pass: 5Fail: 1 |
Chronicle Application Hidden |
June 12, 2008New Chronicle - Probationary Admission of Jacksonville, FL |
Pass: 7Fail: 0 |
Chronicle Application Hidden |
Oct. 3, 2008Bylaw 8 Change - Revenge and Singularity |
Pass: 8Fail: 0 |
Bylaw 8 - Revenge and Singularity No player may portray a character who begins play with knowledge of their previous character, or who is seeking retribution for any reason against those responsible for his previous character's demise. In addition, no character in TGN may be a duplicate of another character being played in any other currently running LARP. Finally, players may only have one active character per chronicle, with the exception of chronicles hosting separate games under a single charter, such as a member chronicle fostering relations with a satellite chronicle. In these instances, players are limited to a single active character per game operating under the charter in question. |
Oct. 14, 2008Admin Policy Change - Tribal Moderators |
Pass: 7Fail: 0 |
Tribal Moderators (TM) are elected positions that oversee their assigned Tribe and its overall genre. There is one for each of the 12 Tribes, and a Rare TM who oversees Fera, Stargazers and everything else. TM's are responsible for keeping the history of their Tribe, representing Tribal NPC's on listserves and in person at chronicles' requests, managing Unique characters belonging to their Tribe, moderating their Tribe's listserve, maintaining the "feel" of their Tribe both on listserves and through helping Storytellers, running appropriate tribal rites and traditions, and reporting their Tribe's status to the Board on a regular basis. They are also responsible for maintaining their Tribe’s camps, and PC’s admission into them. TM’s may also run limited plots within their tribe, and run scenes for players or ST’s who have requested their help. The TM is the final word on that tribe’s overall genre (not to be confused with local feel, which remains the chronicle’s ST’s responsibility). TM’s have authority over ST’s to address when they feel a chronicle is straying too far from his Tribe’s established genre, and will work with those ST’s to reconcile the issue. TM’s will have a small collection of NPC's at their disposal for representing their Tribe on lists, which may be loaned to chronicles for temporary use. The majority of these NPC's should remain consistent from year to year. Tribal Moderators may not play a PC that belongs to the grouping they oversee in any chronicle |
Oct. 14, 2008Admin Policy Change - Voting |
Pass: 7Fail: 0 |
Voting - At minimum, the Board must adhere to the following procedure: 1. A voting, Appointed Storyteller from a chronicle must post to the Board List the proposal, written as clearly and succinctly as they are able. The subject line must read, "Proposal: (Name of Proposal)." The body of the post should include a short explanation of the proposal's intent, followed by the proposal itself. 2. The proposal must then be "Seconded" for it to be considered. This may be done by a different chronicle's voting Appointed Storyteller, or by the EXO, unless the EXO is on the proposing chronicle’s ST staff. 3. The proposal will be open for discussion on the Board List for one week's time. 4. At the end of that week, the proposing chronicle has the option to make changes to the proposal based on feedback received. They may do so, and repost a final draft of the proposal within one week, which would procede directly to voting with no further required discussion period. If no feedback is given, or if alterations are not made, it then procedes to the polls for voting. 5. The EXO will create a single poll for each proposal, sighting the original proposal's message number on the Board List if space does not allow for the entire proposal text to be posted in the poll. The EXO will create four choices: "Pass," "Fail," "Abstain," and "Player Rep." The "Player Rep" choice is to allow Player Reps on the Board list to view how their STs are voting. If the original proposal contained appropriate, alternate choices, those options be used instead of “Pass” and “Fail.” 6. The voting poll will be open for one week, after which time the EXO will close the vote, and announce the final decision. All votes done by the board need a 51 % majority of total chronicles in the org to pass, except changes to the Core 10 Bylaws and Legend Rank approvals, which need a two- thirds majority of total chronicles in the org to pass. |
Dec. 15, 2008Admin Policy Change - Voting Policy |
Pass: 10Fail: 0 |
Voting Policy (Final paragraph change): Results of all votes done by the board will be determined by the option receiving the greatest number of votes, except changes to the Core 10 Bylaws and Legend Rank approvals, which need a two-thirds majority of total chronicles who have voting privileges in the org to pass. In the event of a tie, the EXO makes the final decision from the tied options. |
