Require R&U type restrictions be added to the Bylaws

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Proposal Type: Bylaw Revision
Opened: 28-Jun-2011 1:00AM EDT
Closing: 28-Jun-2011 1:00AM EDT


I Hereby Propose, as CM of Always Comes Evening, San Francisco, CA. The following:

Currently the R&U bylaws read:

1. Definition of the Rare & Unusual Bylaws
A. This list is to be considered a guideline for all games within the network. As such, it crosses the lines of genre whether a game is focused on Sabbat vampire, changeling or werewolf. These categories are to be used as an extrapolated guideline. As character concepts are beasts of wild creativity and vast imagination, any list cannot hope to cover the scope of what the players of One World by Night wish to portray. With any system of this nature, flexibility and fluidity are a necessary component. The population types of One World by Night are likely to ebb and flow over the years, and these guidelines must be flexible to reflect the growth and change of the organization and its goals and needs.

B. All changes that may require players of current or future characters to seek approval under these guidelines must be made directly to this document by a majority council vote, with the exception of changes in the rarity of specific paths or rituals of blood magic.

The wording should be changed from and added to as follows:
B. All changes that may require players of current or future characters to seek approval under these guidelines must be made directly to this document by a majority council vote, with the exception of changes in the rarity of specific paths or rituals of blood magic.

to changes and additions in red:
B. All Restrictions that may require Chronicles or Players to seek approval from, or make notification to, Coordinators or Sub Coordinators regarding IC aspects of the game such as, but not limited to, Character types, powers, merits, magical items, must be made directly to The Rare and Unusual Bylaws or the Character Regulation Bylaws by a proposal to council, detaining the changes to the bylaw, with the exception of changes or additions of specific paths or rituals of blood magic and restrictions under Coordinator Bylaw 3.C.ii.1.c.
i. . Such Proposals shall be considered Rules, Game Mechanics or Organizational Proposals, and thus may be notified in their entirety to the Player Base.
ii. Listings in the Bylaw may be by category, with each example not specifically enumerated, as long as a source for further clarification is given, and the category is clearly defined.

Rules On current characters, restrictions and requirements:
Restrictions and requirements for notification not in the R&U or Character Regulation Bylaws but previously passed by council, as in genre packets, and approvals under the same, shall remain valid and binding for one month and only one month, after the passage of this proposal, and characters with approvals under those restrictions must be grandfathered without exception or exemption if similar or identical restrictions are added to the bylaws. Should the one month time period lapse without such restrictions and requirements for notification being added to the bylaws, and the bylaws later changed to add similar or identical restrictions, then grandfathering must be given to all such characters that exist at the time of passage, without exception or exemption. Any question or dispute regarding restrictions, grandfathering or other aspect of this proposal may be brought to council for settlement. However if passed, council agrees this proposal's section, entitled, Rules On current characters, restrictions and requirements, may not be exempted without a separate individual vote for each such exemption.

Sincerely,
Jacob Siebert
Always Comes Evening (San Francisco, CA) Council Rep
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