[AUTOPASS] [BYLAW] Near-Extinct and Extraordinary Changing Breeds Gifts

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Proposal

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Pursuant to Coordinator Bylaw §3.C.iii, I, Dora Jay, as Changing Breeds Coordinator, do so propose the following. It should be noted that this proposal has the potential to autopass. 

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Bylaws Now

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4. Lost Tribal and Breed Gifts and Rites - PC: Majority Vote - NPC: Coordinator Approval - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

   1. Any character who learns a gift or rite belonging exclusively to one of the extinct or lost Changing breed or Garou tribes (defined for this purpose as the Apis, Bunyip, Camazotz, Croatan, Grondr, and White Howlers).

5. Using the Mokole gift Steal Shape to create new varna or alter character's changing breed - PC: Majority Vote - NPC: Coordinator Approval - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

6. Gifts

7. Non Glasswalker / Boli Zousizhe learning Chaos Mechanics - PC: Coordinator Approval - NPC: Coordinator Notify - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

8. Non-Fianna learning Faerie Blood - PC: Coordinator Approval - NPC: Coordinator Notify - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

9. Learning, Swiping, Mimicking, or otherwise Obtaining Aetherial Realm Gifts - PC: Coordinator Approval - NPC: Unregulated - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

10. Aetherial Gifts are gifts taught by the Deity Incarna and Celestine Spirits. These gifts include:

    1. Basic

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Bylaws After

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4. Lost Tribal and Breed Gifts and Rites - PC: Majority Vote - NPC: Coordinator Approval - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

   1. Any character who learns or swipes a gift or rite belonging exclusively to one of the extinct or lost Changing breed or Garou tribes (defined for this purpose as the Apis, Bunyip, Camazotz, Croatan, Grondr, and White Howlers).

5. Using the Mokole gift Steal Shape to create new varna or alter character's changing breed - PC: Majority Vote - NPC: Coordinator Approval - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

6. Gifts

7. General Gift Rules

   1. Garou Gifts

      1. Non Glasswalker / Boli Zousizhe learning Chaos Mechanics - PC: Coordinator Approval - NPC: Coordinator Notify - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

      2. Non-Fianna learning Faerie Blood - PC: Coordinator Approval - NPC: Coordinator Notify - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

   2. Fera Gifts

   3. Non Near-Extinct and Extraordinary Changing Breeds PCs / Kinfolk PCs learning exclusive Near-Extinct and Extraordinary Changing Breeds gifts - PC: Coordinator Approval - NPC: Coordinator Notify: Coordinator: Changing Breeds

      1. Exclusive Near-Extinct and Extraordinary Changing Breeds gifts are gifts that are only available to a specific Near-Extinct / Extraordinary Changing Breeds type and are not found in any other printed White Wolf source material such as Shagreen Shield, Xochipilli's Touch, Many Eyes, and so on and so forth. 

         1. Near Extinct / Extraordinary Changing Breed types are as follow:

            1. Ananasi

            2. Bubasti

            3. Ceilican

            4. Khara

            5. Kitsune

            6. Mokole / Mokole-mbembe

            7. Nagah

            8. Nuwisha

            9. Okuma

            10. Rokea

8. Aetherial Realm Gifts

9. Learning, Swiping, Mimicking, or otherwise Obtaining Aetherial Realm Gifts - PC: Coordinator Approval - NPC: Unregulated - Coordinator: Changing Breeds

10. Aetherial Gifts are gifts taught by the Deity Incarna and Celestine Spirits. These gifts include.....

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Justification / Explanation

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In every other splat in the org, characters that are vote-based in acquisition have a built in gate to keep their special vote-based powers in such a way that they control how they are taught or learned. 

I have zero issues with NPCs teaching these things within reason. 

I have zero issues with PCs teaching these things within reason.

I just want to stop seeing reports of "Oh my ST let me buy a Nuwisha gift because they didn't want me to prop for a Nuwisha concept to council." and "oh, I saw this player activate this while at a game and I really wanted that power so I asked my ST if I could buy it and they said yes."

That's not fair, nor is it ethical, to the players of those concepts nor is it good for the genre as a whole. 

I know it's hard for STs to say no when the bylaws don't say no. 

This is me changing the bylaws to give them what they need to say no with confidence while also still leaving open reasonable pathways to learning these cool unique tricks. 

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Legacy

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Learned “Approval” material: None, must reapply to keep any impacted gifts in question. 

on reapplication: I have zero -zero- problems with people keeping things they've genuinely earned.

All I need from impacted players is a paragraph an ST can sign off on that illustrates why you have it and how you got it.

Provided that checks out, I'm not going to take things off sheets.