Post date: Aug 07, 2014 8:32:38 PM
Luke Philippi has been called to service and henceforth shall be known as *Empowered *Feared and *Storytellery. I've already brought him up to speed and he has been added to cidsts and icconv. Thank you for stepping up to AST for me.
Shaun Bailey will continue to soak up that player rep player point as no one else threw their name in the hat. Thank you Shaun for being selfish enough to deal with player issues.
Sheets printed up for last game session were bad, i'm bringing correct sheets to game Sunday.
OOC The sign in desk will be located on the second floor room with couches. This is the only area where OOC behavior is to occur past quick rules clarifications. As a game we have a big problem with people dropping OOC for extended amounts of time and sucking most of the player base into it. It is everyone's responsibility to OOC talk in the OOC room.
Influences Significant actions will be processed once a month at the end of the month. Significant/Major actions are ones that impact the environment around you such as buying businesses, shutting businesses down, getting cops fired, getting magic items, enacting legislation, getting the news to run an investigative piece ect. Growths traces and attacks will also count as major actions. Major actions need to be submitted within the first week of the month and will tie up whatever level of influence required for the rest of the month.
Minor actions will be resolved at game like getting information, drugs, guns, tying up masquerade breaking new stories (not minor but a critical component of game). Instant gratification of these influence requests will still cost double.
This system will be undergoing constant refinement in an attempt to balance player needs with staff energy. All actions must be submitted to cidinfluence@gmail.com in addition to anything discussed at game.
Bribes and favors opportunities will be available in appropriate situations for people who are out of influences for the month. Do not bank on these opportunities always being there and plan influence spends accordingly. Players who don't frequently spend their influences should make a point to advertise their services for a steep price to encourage RP and IC profits.
Major influence uses for August are due by the 16th due to this information coming out late. As me at game if you have a question about if an influence action is major or minor.
IC Game sites IC need a write up. Prince, keeper, or whoever is responsible for procuring the site please have a write up on hand to leave at the sign in desk. If there is no description provided gathering site will be at an appropriate low security site of my choosing. Regardless of actual IC Game site, they will always have the same rough physical layout similar to the church. This is being done so the entire property can be considered IC and we can take better advantage of our super awesome game site.
Locationally Challenged permission only you are always at gathering unless you are in the OOC room, or you have a signed item card from staff giving you permission to be somewhere else. This is being done to cut down on confusion of where people are and ghost town courts.
Costumes are awesome, we have a (for the most part) private, climate controlled site. Please don't be afraid to put some extra effort into your PC's costume.
Humanity and the Beast will be a focused theme for my administration. Expect to see more frenzy chops if we see you get humiliated or you are the target of other beast antagonizing situations. Your beast is your worst enemy.
1 PC per month is now active. This goes by named calendar months, September being the next chance to play a different PC at game. You're free to travel and do email stuff with your other PC's but I want you playing the same pc all month from 6-10 on Sunday nights. This is a trial program, please cooperate with it instead of trying to lobby loopholes or create extenuating circumstances.
Ghoul auras will now read as human auras and vampires possessing mortals or ghouls will read as human auras unless you specialize investigation in reading auras.
Communications outside of CiD during game House bylaw 6.1 Any Character not signed in to Columbus in Darkness is not permitted to communicate In Character information during the Columbus in Darkness game session to a Character signed in to CiD.
Communication will be considered sending OR receiving information. No messaging/list posts while game is active and no taking info off posts and bringing into active play while signed in.
House rules will be amended with new information shortly.
Player points need to be tracked by players and submitted at the end of the month for approval. See me at game to get your totals.
Two amendments will be voted on at next months round table:
"Propose amendment to 2.1 "any Player in good standing (no Chronicle or Organization wide Strikes) may be nominated or nominate himself to be considered by the Player Base to be new HST" changed to "any Player in good standing (no Chronicle or Organization wide Strikes) nominate themselves to be considered by the Player Base to be new HST"
and
30-60 starting cap increase (I am not in favor of raising this this total but there was significant interest at round table to putting this towards a game vote which I'm allowing)
Current stated Additional Experience Points at Creation
As outlined in the One World By Night character regulations, no character may
start with more than 30 creation points above the basic character creation
rules. These points are spent as experience points, not freebie
points. All restrictions outlined character regulations above also apply,
except that “in clan” Disciplines are not restricted to the level they may
purchased to.
Additional points may come from the following categories: Player Points, roll over
Experience Points from a dead or retired character, and Experience Points
granted for character concept and character history.
No more than 16 points may be awarded by the Head Storyteller or Assistant Storyteller
for Character Concept and Character History.
Updated Bylaw suggestion:
Additional Experience Points at Creation
As
outlined in the One World By Night character regulations, no character may start with more than 60 creation points above the
basic character creation rules. These points are spent as experience
points, not freebie points. All restrictions outlined in character
regulations above also apply, except that “in clan” Disciplines are not
restricted to the level they may purchased to. For
clarification, these points cannot be used for out-of-clan disciplines without
a proper teacher.
Additional
points may come from the following categories:
All characters have an additional 15 experience points
New players, returning players from an extended absence or players with no other active character in CID have an additional 15 points. The awarding of these points are adjudicated by the Head Storyteller or Assistant Storyteller
Player points add up to an additional 16 experience points
Rollover points from a dead or retired character can constitute any or all 60 additional experience points if requested by the player
No more
than 15 points may be awarded by the Head Storyteller or Assistant Storyteller
for Character Concept and Character History. Please check the bylaws regarding player points further information.
Please note the OWbN bylaws on the 60 point cap are as follows:
"
2. New Character Creation
A. A new player character shall be restricted to the points allowed under standard character creation in the appropriate Mind's Eye Theater rules, plus up to
sixty (60) experience points.
i. Any awards of traits, abilities, or other character statistics count towards this limit as the amount of experience that the player would have had to
spend to purchase that particular statistic.
B. Up to sixty (60) unspent experience from a previous character that has been rendered unplayable through death, retirement, or otherwise permanently
removed from play may be rolled over into the new character, however the combined total from storyteller awards and unspent experience may not total
more than sixty experience points for any reason. Any awards made towards the creation of a new character must be made within three game sessions of
the character entering play.
i. These points may be spent only as Experience points, not as creation points. This spending should follow your Chronicle's House Rules.
ii. These points may not be allowed to purchase any power above second Basic in any out of clan Disciplines, nor above first Basic in any Clan
specific Disciplines (Chimerstry, Protean, Mytherceria, etc.).
iii. Rare and Unusual Rules apply to how this experience is spent.
iv. Points diverted from a previous character to a new character, as defined in section 2.B above, may only be used once, and may only be used for a
single new character. Multiple characters may not harvest gains from a single previous character.
C. Experience points already spent shall not be transferred or refunded to another character. Points approved by the player character's home chronicle are
considered spent.
D. No Vampire Character may be created without the direct involvement of the Sire of that Character. This Sire may be a PC, an established NPC, or an
NPC created in the Character's back story for the purposes as serving as the Character's Sire. Stored Vitae in any form, to include various rituals and
cooling methods, is not viable for enacting the Embrace. Clans which make use of such rituals as their standard practice upon Embrace may still do so, as
the integrity of the process is maintained. "
Peter
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Columbus Head Storyteller