NPC Regents and Email Lists

Using my Coordinator powers, I'm proposing the following...

To add the following, displayed in red, to the Administrative bylaws.

The reason is that in the extremely hierarchal structure of clan Tremere makes it so that Regents, even NPCs, need to stay in touch with the rest of the Pyramid. I have had numerous issues with NPCs being ran by Storytellers who are unfamiliar with everything from the directives of their Councilor, the political climate of the Camarilla, and the Pyramid at large. This makes the players of the chronicle suffer because their Regent isn't connected and usually has no idea what the temperature of the clan, it makes players of other chronicles suffer because they are constantly trying to fix what NPCs who really should be more informed do, and me suffer because hearing about Gargoyles swooping in at the behest of their NPC regent to rescue bloodhunted individuals, or attacking people that were directly declared hands off, makes me spend time putting out fires that should never have started in the first place.

In short, Storytellers have asked for the right to be on the Email lists. I'm asking for that right to become a responsibility for those Storytellers who prefer to run the Regent instead of allowing a PC to do so. If they can't handle this responsibility, I feel they should find someone who can.

9. Internet Presence

A. Official Site

i. OWBN.ORG shall be recognized as being the official website of this organization, and that it shall be the primary representation of our organization to the public, insofar as a presence on the World Wide Web.

ii. The ownership of the domain shall belong to the Council who will designate an individual as the registrar of the domain name. This registrar acknowledges that the domain shall be turned over to whomever Council deems necessary in the future.

iii. Content on any site hosted by OWBN.ORG shall belong to the network, or White Wolf, Inc. unless otherwise noted.

B. The section was removed 9/23/08. Reference Coordinator Duties 3.A.vi for the Web Coordinator position.

C. Email Lists

i. Due to the mature themes portrayed in OWBN, all organizational lists not specifically designated by their moderators as ‘safe for children’ are restricted to those members of the organization who are no longer minors as legally defined by their governments.

ii. A Council Member may petition a list moderator on behalf of one of their underage players, who may or may not make an exception for that player. Whatever method the Council Member uses to determine whether they will petition on behalf of a player is left to the chronicle.

iii. Any mailing list, forum, newsgroup, or other form of IC communication must allow membership for the storytellers of any character who is a member of the list/group. Such access may be designated 'read only' at the discretion of the moderator of the list/group. Information and communications from any group that does not meet these criteria shall be considered invalid for use in OWBN.

iv. Chronicles who use an NPC Regent within clan Tremere must have the portrayer of that NPC on the appropriate Tremere lists. If the portrayer is unable, not unwilling, to have their email on the lists then a different storyteller from the same chronicle who is capable of adjudication of that NPC will be.

Joe Long
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