Jeremiah for HST

[Bubba Kush]

Cervantes:
Yes, it would be naive to assume that asimple xp reset would solve the inequality, but that's not what I'm proposing. Try and look at the big picture; a reboot in setting and system necessitates a character reboot and I'm doing this to balance the ooc atmosphere. You seem preoccupied with the mechanical inequalities which, while at times ridiculous, is not my aim. I'm all for xp differences. What you are referring to as stop gap; perhaps you are right, but I have no desire or right to set policy for any HSTs that come after me. I'm taking these measures to do a bottom-up attempt to draw out role-playing and allow interesting characters to have as much power as those who scour the boss for an edge.

Also, my 100xp for starting characters isn't to appease the haunted house workers, it's for everyone. I appreciate the service you gave,I directed a scene last year so I know, but I can't justify allowing some people to keep bonus xp and not others. This is of course open for discussion, but my focus is on the bigger picture. I would love to talk to you at game tonight.

Mike:
Of course all games require competition, but all stories require cooperation. Yes it's backstabbing, but a lot is arbitrary, regardless of how many new rules are put up (what's to stop an ST from sending 3 cops after a distress call, or 10, or 50... see what I mean?)

Larp, believe it or not, is cooperation just as much as competition. I want to foster a lot more cooperation, so that the competition is in good spirits and not taken personal.

[Bubba Kush]

Lol, I'm on my phone downtown; forgive me my typos :-)

[Styx]

I am hearing more and more that 'ECC doesnt need change, leave it alone its fine as it is' and ' if you want all these changes, its better if you start a different game' (the paraphrasing is my own), and I'm starting to think that maybe they're right; maybe starting a different game , and building it right the first time from the ground up, is better than trying to revamp the current game. This game has had two schisms since I've been a part of it, and if the past is any reference, it's about due for another . I'm going to be seriously considering moving to a different game..

[Shah-Khohr of Ventrue]

While I appreciate the verve that you are taking in most of these debates, I can't help but feel that perhaps this is poorly timed. I would, personally, be far more inclined to vote for you if you were an active player participating in the stories and conflicts IC/OOC of game. I feel like perhaps you have built in your mind what you wanted EC to be. When it wasn't that thing, you walked away. Now you're trying to make it something else closer to what you originally wanted it to be.

I'm not against change, but I am generally opposed for change simply for change's sake. I am not terribly inclined to vote for you until I see you taking some practical ownership of the game as it stands. Change can only come from within. You had some good cred going for you till you walked. Why not come play for a year and resubmit for HST?

[Bubba Kush]

Rob:
While it's true that I took a hiatus from game, it was more because I was told by the former HST that I was nt welcome at game. It was more a personality conflict, but I've I'd rather not air publicly.

I do respect your apprehension about my absence; vote for who makes you feel comfortable. But this isn't change fir changes sake, these are tried techniques used to combat the aspects of game that are less than ideal.

David:
This ain't my first rodeo, and it won't be my last.if I don't get elected, no big deal. I know we don't see eye to eye in many of our numerous conversations, but I'm running to see what the community really wants.

With respect to all of you, we on this thread, on the boards, are only part of the Larp community. I wish to share an alternate style of Larp, no more no less. I've got nothing to lose by running and I'll run again in the future.

[Styx]

Jeremiah,
I meant nothing against you at all, my comment wasn't even connected to your thread and I should have posted it elsewhere, my apologies. I think you're trying to give the game something it needs: new direction, and fresh air. While we may not agree on the way to do it, the fact that you're trying is applaudable.

[Iris "Chases-Rainbows"]

You were told not welcomed at the game?

Is this why you didn't bring in the ghoul concept?

Because we have PAs for stuff like that and that is not an ok thing.

[Bubba Kush]

David:

No worries, I just wanted to assure you that, one way or another, I'll be running some sort of Larp in the future.

Toni:

I'll talk to you at game?

[Iris "Chases-Rainbows"]

Not at game tonight. Aaron is stupid sick.

[Bubba Kush]

Stupid sick? I hope it's not contagious, no one wants to catch the stupid

[Barnaby Cuthbert]

I don't agree with this platform for the following reasons:

Cleaning up current narratives here is discussed as almost an afterthought. If you're going to do that without seriously telling a story then there's literally no impetus to come to game until the game is fully reset. This kind of thinking is how resets dump major game populations down to a third the size. The adage: 'Resets kill games' refers to this.

Allowing the re-inventing of old characters is a terrible idea. Not allowing that is the reason that the very successful Inigo Montoya clause exists.

Multiple in-character locations provide a sense of immersion, that there is a world out there. Taking those from regular game play is a bad idea. Having the anarchs and the cam and the people on paths all stuck in the same room all the time is a bad idea. It leads to near constant Elysium breaches, time bubbles and mass combats. That's a factual result of what you are proposing, and it simply isn't fun.

Tossing out the rules for the purposes of arbitration leads to cops and robbers "Bang, you're dead." "No I'm not." "Yes you are." Ultimately it creates the perception that the storytellers don't want to learn or use the rules. That creates the perception of unfairness and constant arbitration creates the perception of unfairness. It doesn't matter if those things are true or not, the perception will always exist, so it's somewhat poor decision making to toss aside human nature in that regard when the answer is available: Learn the rules and use them, hire those that do and carry a book, then promote learning of the rules (rather than obfuscating them).

It's a deal breaker that you haven't regularly played this game non-stop for over a year. I don't like it in my ASTs, I won't accept it in my HST ever.

The things I like about the platform are the general idea of a reset. It's getting to be time. The execution you suggest is completely inadequate to the game's needs in my opinion though.

There's honestly nothing else I like about this platform except for your interest in running and the discussions that it has caused.

That said Jerimiah you are a fine gentleman with an excellent singing voice that I hope will get to role-play with more in the future. I hope that my opinions are not taken personally, as I consider us friends, and none of these opinions are those I haven't expressed to you aside in private conversation.

[Bubba Kush]

Chris,

No worries, your opinions are as valid as any. I'm afraid there's bit a whole lot I can say in response since you are asserting that these methods simply won't work.

You say my platform will unleash mass combat, time bubbles and Elysium breaches... which already exist in spades.

This may not sound like it works in practice, but I assure you it does. We can argue game theory all night, so I'd rather hear if YOU are capable of arbitration, if YOU would leave game over a reset, etc.

My running for HST won't tip any apple carts, and I am willing to negotiate.

Regardless,I am rejoining ECC no matter what. I just think it's time that the player base has the freedom to express alternate ideas for Larp, because ECC isn't the only successful model.

If you don't like it, don't vote for me. But these methods do work and I can't wait to show you, in this Larp or another.

Nothing wrong with new ideas. I just don't think any individual on the forums has any right to declare what ECC is or is not; the body Will decide through election, open dialogue, and natural evolution.

Don't stop the friendly debate, it takes a village to make a Larp

[Barnaby Cuthbert]

Certainly nothing wrong with new ideas, and I very much appreciate the discussion and debate. Good luck!

[Bubba Kush]

So some last notes before the vote...

My staff currently sits at three members, all off whom belong to other HST staffs and do not wish to affect the election by appearing to 'jump ship'. Should I get elected, the total co ST count should be 6.

My main focus of platform is to shift the focus of the games bureaucracy away from mechanics and more toward character decisions. In short, game should be about a cooperative relationship between players and sts, not an elaborate game of mechanical mousetrap.

I have new ideas, all of which would no doubt receive an ECC makeover if adopted, but the reason I'm campaigning for said ideas is to show solutions to common complaints at game.

Most importantly, a lot of ideas I hear around Larp are very similar. Some would argue that the way ECC works now is the only way it can work, which couldn't be more wrong.

In any case, see you tonight.

[Bubba Kush]

So some last notes before the vote...

My staff currently sits at three members, all off whom belong to other HST staffs and do not wish to affect the election by appearing to 'jump ship'. Should I get elected, the total co ST count should be 6.

My main focus of platform is to shift the focus of the games bureaucracy away from mechanics and more toward character decisions. In short, game should be about a cooperative relationship between players and sts, not an elaborate game of mechanical mousetrap.

I have new ideas, all of which would no doubt receive an ECC makeover if adopted, but the reason I'm campaigning for said ideas is to show solutions to common complaints at game.

Most importantly, a lot of ideas I hear around Larp are very similar. Some would argue that the way ECC works now is the only way it can work, which couldn't be more wrong.

In any case, see you tonight.