2017 - Ventrue - Brian Orlando

Applicant Name:
Brian Orlando
Applicant Email:
ventruecoord@gmail.com
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Introduction and Background:

My name is Brian Orlando, and I am OWbN’s Ventrue Coordinator. Since taking the office in November 2011, I have fully revised and improved Clan Ventrue’s resources as well as developed its assets. With your vote, I would like to continue this positive momentum into the coming year.

 

We have come a long way, but I still believe we can improve on making the clan fun and engaging at all levels. If elected this year, rather than new content, my vision is to start stripping the genre documentation down to its essentials and pushing the chains of IC leadership to begin moving more urgently to take care of its own problems.

 

Basically, less OOC guides and bureaucracy, more IC goodness!

 

Administrative Experience:

Here are some org positions I hold:

  • Ventrue Coordinator since November 2011
  • HST for the Tampa Chronicle for over 10+ years
  • CM for the Tampa Chronicle for over 8+ years
  • Assamite Sorcery Sub-Coord since 2010
  • Sabbat Sub-Coord since 2010

Personal Statement:

In the coming year, I would like to ensure the genre documents and materials stay as closely aligned with the materials presented by White Wolf as possible, while at the same time integrating One World’s evolution. I am proud that the Genre-related resources are written independent of Sect, and I will continue to drive toward a Clan Ventrue where characters support each other quickly, fully, and without question (e.g. succor).

 

In closing, I continue into the next year doing everything I can to help make playing Ventrue fun, interesting, and engaging. I have delivered on my campaign promises from last term and am prepared to continue delivering! #theventruecoorddelivers

Goals:

If elected, I would seek to accomplish the following goals:

  1. Keeping a close eye on response times is a large concern for me. Sometimes, emails do go missing but for the most part, issues to the Ventrue Coordinator’s office get usually resolved (after whatever back-and-forth needs to occur) in about a week. I’d like to keep that level of commitment through the next term.
  2. We restructured the IC leadership in 2015/2016 and quickly discovered that, PCs can be just as unresponsive/unavailable as NPCs. This year, we’ll be further consolidating with the goal of applying more pressure on the IC leadership hierarchies to produce (hierarchies inside of the Directorate and each of the Societies). A big step toward spurring the IC hierarchies into action is making constant queries to the PCs in positions of Regional and Global leadership in order to make sure that stagnation does not take hold of the characters put in place by the Clan (or group) to guide others
  3. A big focus this year needs to be on the Ethic of Succor. The longer I have served as Ventrue Coordinator, the more apparent it has become to me that the Succor is simply not used, short of a Ventrue facing certain death - this is opposite to what the Clanbook outlines. The Clan Advantage should be used in order to press other Ventrue into action on your behalf. In the next year, I will emphasise the Clan’s focus on working together and using the Ethic of Succor to each character’s advantage.
  4. I constantly get feedback requesting that the Board of Directors take a more active/visible approach. While they did step in much more than in previous years, I plan to have a constant flow of  decrees/clarifications/announcements come from the Board of Directors, possibly on a monthly basis. This will help characters feel like they are connected to something larger, and will help by making the Clan’s Elders’ wishes and perspective very clear, on certain (necessary) issues.
  5. I plan to release a Binding Document for the Directorate, its processes, positions, and customs. This document will likely contain additional benefits for Directorate members at higher levels, an idea that Council and the ST list were fairly positive about when queried
  6. I will be making a fairly large revision of the Genre Guide with the goal to shorten it down to only what is essential, and to produce a translation.
  7. I will be making a fairly large revision of the Societies Guide with the goal to significantly shorten the document while at the same time, syncing it with the actual way the Societies are portrayed in game-play. The other goal of this revision is to identify what we can do with the Groups that are defunct and then execute on that analysis.
  8. For the Daeva (Year of Smoke) creatures, I will be proposing a document which makes the rules for the creatures binding so that we can start moving toward more consistency, both in and out-of-character. This change will also be accompanied by a revision to Appendix B of the original proposal in order to make the elements of the Story more suitable to Camarilla and Anarch genres.
  9. I will continue to award Prestige/Recognition to characters who are moving positively, within the system and will further leverage the power of the Prestige system to elevate these characters in gameplay. While fighting the system is good for some, being a company-man has its rewards for others...
  10. I would very much like to appoint a PC Strategos in Brazil. While I understand that the question of “who” may be decisive, I believe the region would benefit with a PC, rather than NPC in charge of the area.
  11. I will continue to work as a part of Team-Sabbat to make sure that the Anti are not only just being represented, but are prospering within the Sect, being given chances to take center-stage, and that the Canon Antitribu keep getting portrayed and expanded.
  12. I will continue to work with the other Coordinators in order to produce a second part of the Year of Smoke Coordinated Story. I worked on two separate drafts in months leading up to the election and neither were ready for Council, as discussed with the other Coordinators.