Re: Voting stuff

[Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>]

> Hirudo as players
> Materials for weapons
> new Race chart
> Elves as priests

I have the following list of open topics:

1-Swimming in Armor (need an official errata on the subject)
2-Armour Materials
3-Weapons Materials
4-Capped Mods
5-Drowning Rules
6-Material definitions
7-Range of Missile Weapons
8-Elves as Priests
9-Hirduo as PCs
10-Materials Availability/Cost chart
11-Race Chart

The question then becomes are we voting on setting specific
stuff, campaign affecting stuff or rules. 

Item 11 is setting specific and Galein GMs should definately be
voting on that. 

Items 9-10 are have campaign wide affects, all GMs should be 
voting and setting coordinators should be having a deep discussion 
about the impact of these rulings on their settings.

Item 8 is could be anything. If its can they be priests it could
just be setting specific. If its can elves cast divine spells its
a rules question.

Items 1-7 are rules questions. With the current system they cannot
be voted on. They can have the hell discussed out of them and
suggestions can be made to Dan, but Dan writes the game rules so
you can't just vote to change them and expect anything to happen.
Unless your adopting a set of local rules for either your setting
(in which case it _MUST_ be isolated from the rest of the campaign),
or the campaign in general (in which case I'd wager you alienate 
Dan)... I really don't think any of you are ready to open that can
of worms.

I'm a big believer in, "If you want to have some say, do some work",
so in keeping with that:

Setting Changes: Only people who are actively producing material and
moderating in a setting should have a vote on setting specific 
changes. (e.g. I don't GM in Galeia or write material for it, so I don't
expect a vote.) As I see it, there are currently three Campaign Approved
settings: Centralia, Rugtero and Galeia. I'd normally define Campaign
Approved as well documented, heavily played and multiple-GM usable.
However I guess a campaign vote to give something the Nod also counts :)

Campaign Changes: Anyone who can vote in a Setting Change can vote
in a Campaign Change.

Rules Changes: persuade Dan. He layed out rules on how to get a change,
use 'em.

Also when I say GM, I don't mean GMming once qualifies you. I think you
have to be a contributor. I think we can track pretty closely how many
times X GM moderates in Y setting. Plus I think that would turn out to
be a damn interesting list. It would also encourage several people to
GM more if they were going to fall of the voting list if they didn't
moderate X times/semester.

Just some thoughts.

						-Steve