Lotr committee: Plan + strategy The Council of the white Tree

[Smeagollum]

Lotr Players Council: The Council of the white Tree

PC Members & Roles:
1.   The Returned king of Gondor (Sherman)
2.   The Steward of Gondor (Vice-Sherman)
3.   The White Wizard
4.   The Captain of the White Tree
5.   The Prince of Dol Amroth
6.             Secreatary
7.             Cashier

Responsabilities of the PC:
a.   Contact with the different playercommunities
b.   Maintanance, Checking & Updating Formats & CRD
c.   Maintanance, Checking & Updating Errata, X-, R-list
d.   Game development
e.   Designing New Virtual cards
f.   Playtesting
g.   Organizing Tournaments
h.   Judges
i.   PR + Finding sponsors

Roles PC members:
1)   The Returned king of Gondor:
a)   Sherman of the council
b)   Contact with the Webteam
c)   Representative
2)   The Steward of Gondor:
a)   Vice-Sherman of the council
b)   Contact with the Knights of the White Tree
c)    Representative
3)   The White Wizard:
a)   Game & Card design & development
b)   Maintain contact with the Istari
c)   Maintain contact with the playtestingteam
4)   The Captain of the White Tree:
a)   In charge of Tourneys and ratings system.
b)   Judges
c)   Main contact with knights of the white tree: to maintain and coordinate all events and reach out to all players' groups.
5)   The Prince of Dol Amroth:
a)   Contact with Knights of justice
b)   In charge of rules questions and leader of any councils called to resolve serious rules questions: erratas, bans, restrictions, etc. Develops CRD etc. Works with the tournament directors on rules questions.
c)   Online gamecoordinator: Works with Captain of the white tree.
Teams:
1)   Knights of justice: HawkeyeSPF, Olorin, Disco Stu, Elrohir, Elgar and temperary Elessar's Socks
a)   Maintanance, Checking & Updating Formats & CRD
b)   Maintanance, Checking & Updating Errata, X-, R-list
2)   Knights of the White Tree:
a)   Organizing Tournaments
b)   Judges
c)   Main contact of their playercommunity
3)   The Istari:
a)   (Graphic design team) -- Designs the templates and finishes the V-cards, errata slips, creates the pdf
                documents for the CRD, rules, etc.
b)   Design Team -- Designs V-Card sets and themes. Hopefully 3 sets a year.
c)   Gamedevelopment
4)   Playtesting Team -- Works with the design team to playtest V-Sets before they are released. Can be done
                in playgroups or via SdA, gccg, lackey, etc.
5)   Webteam:
a)   Moderators
b)   Techicians
c)   PR & advertising

 
Strategy & Plans

First step:

Fixing crd & cards:  First tackling the daunting task of making existing cards playable again and then look for the production of new cards.

Grow as a universal PC rather than just another splintered group.  Like the SWCCG PC, we will not be perfect, and we will get our fair share of criticism, but we will do a very good job creating a format and cards that everyone can play.  Like that committee, this committee is starting with players who have a background.  This will be mixed with many of you, rabid LOTR fans who just want to be a part of the solution and not part of the problem.  This can work with all types of opinions, compromises, and even differences of opinion.
1. Agree on the current set rotation, if any
2. Agree on an updated X-List, Restricted List and/or Errata to break the big loops, broken-ness etc.
3. Lets start by virtualizing Set 1 (about 20) of the old cards (from Blocks 1-3) and avoid making new images for awhile. This will warm people up.

Mass errata with V-Slips would probably be necessary. I'd rather see the errata's with printable slips than an X-List.

Plan a tournamentsystem and bring up a ratingsystem.

Second step:
Finding Advertisers and sponsors for maintaining web & support big tournaments. For that we would need to contact gameshops and others. Maybe even New Line Cinema and Decipher. Think also on the online game (like how WOW is using the cardgame and vice versa)

Work together with other parties for events and tournaments.

Make a plan so that we can:
1)   Create own virtual cards with new titles and new images. Using new templates and  images.
2)   Allow players to play with or without their new cards. That way the purists can still have their own pre-PC "standard" format unchanged, while the rest can experiments with new cards and new mechanics, trying to balance old card or make them playable again.

For this part we will need an accord with Decipher, NLC and heirs of Tolkien.

As you can see I stole a lot of your ideas 
In the comming period I gonna plan chatsessions for the proposed teams )on Friday and saturday'. First will be on friday 25th of june. I´ll let you know within 2 days witch team will be on that chatsession. You can  give your opinion on plans, suggest new things and if enough support alter the plan or strategy.

I didn´t put names in. But I´ve got a list with people who want to be involved.

Kind Regards,

Jan Willem

[Smeagollum]

Hi all,

As promised I would let you know about the first chatsession. I want to plan this comming friday 26th of june. This will be about:

)   Knights of justice:
a)   Maintanance, Checking & Updating Formats & CRD
b)   Maintanance, Checking & Updating Errata, X-, R-list

I think this is the thing that needs the most attention. Everybody who's interested in this part is welcome to join the discussion. Please note that it's not to discus a single card. This discussion will be about the strategy and goal. I like to plan this chat at 20.00 CET (Amsterdamtime). I like to have Hawkeyespf and Discostu to be part of this! Please inform me if the date or time is inconvinient!

Regards,

Jan Willem

[MR. Lurtzy]

Where at?

[Smeagollum]

at the chatfuntion of tlhh

[Gil-Estel]

you'll run in to the problem that is most likely to happen. 8PM here means 2PM in the US and almost 4AM australian time. So I don't know whether it will be the most effective chat. You might want to consider to start a chattopic, where people can debate concerning this subject. This way people can react in their own time. You could start the topic with a short introduction and ask specific questions. Especially the short introduction is important.
Make sure people react in let's say the weekend. If it is important to people they will, or otherwise will let you know they can't make it.

[macheteman]

maybe you should do both. a chat lets you talk in real time, which would be nice, but you don't get everyone involved because like gil said, the time difference. so maybe the best solution is to go ahead and have the chat, and also open up a thread here.

my 2 cents

-mm

[Smeagollum]

god idea. dontknow how to that, but i am ure omebody dos and that everything will work out fine.

cheers, jw

[HawkeyeSPF]

I won't be able to make it, I'll be at work at that time.

[Elessar's Socks]

Agreed with Gil-Estel. Hopefully more people can contribute to a topic. I'm a bit concerned that we might lose some momentum from the community if too much happens behind the scenes, or have efforts brushed off if people feel they can't / don't have a chance to have their say.

In case I miss it, the questions I'd bring to the chat session are:

- Who has the final say on rulings?
- Who decides what makes it into rules documents?
- Who gets "write access" to rules documents?

[MR. Lurtzy]

Wasn't there supposed to a meeting today, about an hour ago?

[Smeagollum]

Wasn't there supposed to a meeting today, about an hour ago?

No 22.00 cet amsterdam time is aprox about 33 minutes. I'm online now.

[Olorin]

hmmm... structure is a nice idea... but it is a bit blowed-up for my taste... I think it needs to be cut down to keep the structure clear... everyone should know how everything's going on... without always have to look on that tabel above... IMO

[jdizzy001]

I hope this is in the right area, but if you begin to produce virtual cards, will you eventually branch out of LOTR and leek into other movies?  For example, what if there was a set of virtual cards using scense from the movie Willow which worked with LOTR TCG?  Or dragon heart? I know your working on fixing broken cards first, but this is just an idea to keep the ball rolling for awhile.  You could even come up with a few new cultures to stick them in so as not to disrupt the flow of the actual card game.

[Smeagollum]

I hope this is in the right area, but if you begin to produce virtual cards, will you eventually branch out of LOTR and leek into other movies?  For example, what if there was a set of virtual cards using scense from the movie Willow which worked with LOTR TCG?  Or dragon heart? I know your working on fixing broken cards first, but this is just an idea to keep the ball rolling for awhile.  You could even come up with a few new cultures to stick them in so as not to disrupt the flow of the actual card game.

I like the idea. I think Battlewarg allready mentioned this idea. But at this moment we are not ready for this. First we need to have everything organized. After that we can see if we can do this (new virtual sets with new images and cardtitles) legaly.

[jdizzy001]

If you can produce them legally, I would like to help.  I've been making VC's on my own for a while, including creating templates for new cultures.  It was a personal hobby.  I don't know what help I can be, if nothing more I can throw in some ideas now and again.  Anyway, thanks.