On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:40:53PM -0500, Karen J. Cravens wrote: >http://forums.white-wolf.com/viewtopic.php?t=19615&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 What I notice in particular is that every GM and _every repeat player_ in these games has to have a Camarilla membership. Which is something you have to pay for, at $20 a year. Surely that's going to put off some casual players... and how many new members are they going to get? Is that Big Money for them? (I doubt it, but it can't hurt...) >Now, granted the Phoenyx doesn't charge anything (not even eyeball time; >we pay the costs out of our own pockets, not via ads) and never will, but >hypothetically, what if we'd gone the Meetup route and charged GMs for >mailing lists/forums. What if the GMs (some of 'em, anyway) passed the >hat to cover the charges? Would we fall under the "conventions" loophole >since I suppose our hypothetical fee would be the same no matter what game >you ran? I'd seek clarification from WW. Given the specific clause about charging to cover premises rental, I think it could go either way, so I'd want a written decision. (My policy for the mailing lists I run is to have no advertisements or other charge, but to encourage users to send money or buy things off my Amazon wish-list. This seems to work quite well.) >I mean, I can appreciate WW wanting to license all the bootleg for-profit >LARPs out there, but this seems a bit like... well, like Meetup's >ongoing(?) faux pas. I don't know about Meetup... I don't think it can be a liability thing, since it's still legitimate to run a free LARP using the WW name, which would surely expose them to just as much risk. >(Optional reading: the articles on BoingBoing, Slashdot and elsewhere, >the behemoth that (I'm told) is the RPG.net thread on the subject, and so >on.) > >-- >Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/ -- Roger, gaming grognard Lots of role-playing stuff: http://tekeli.li/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
