Organizational FAQ
What is required to join One World by Night?
1. Be active as a chronicle for a minimum of 6 months or 12 game sessions within a one-year period, whichever is longer, prior applying to OWBN for membership.
What do I do once I have reached the requirements?
1. Contact the Admission Coord office directly at as they are currently in the process of revising our admission forms.
Things to Include
- a copy of your written disciplinary procedures.
- Include a copy of any house rules.
What happens now that I have applied?
Once you've applied The Admissions Coordinator, a Sub-Coordinator, or a duly appointed representative will be assigned to the Application to review it and work with the prospective chronicle to work out any questions or concerns from the Genre Coordinators. They will then work with your chronicle to shift/adjust any plots that need to be modified to fit into the OWBN structure.
After that the Probationary Vote happens.
Possible results for the initial Admissions Vote are:
a. Admission to OWBN for a 6 Month probation
b. Denial of admission
What happens when my chronicle is admitted?
If admitted to OWBN for trial membership this means that the Probationary Chronicle for a period of no less than 6 months.
Probationary Chronicles have the following rights and responsibilities to the
network:
1. Adherence to all OWBN Bylaws, Genre Guidelines, Rules and Regulations.
2. May not transfer any characters that exceed the guidelines of Sections 2, 4, 9, or 10 of the Character Regulation Bylaws to any other OWBN chronicle without an exemption vote by Council.
3. Is allowed to have their Storytellers on the OWBN Storyteller e-mail list and their Council Member on the OWBN Council e-mail list. However, the chronicle does not gain voting privileges until they are
considered a Full Membership chronicle within OWBN.
4. Is allowed to have interaction with other chronicles in the OWBN shared-universe and have OWBN PCs interact with their game.
5. May put up characters to Council for R&U Notify and/or Vote.
6. During this time the Chronicle must align all past or present Chronicle Items (Player Characters, Plots, NPC's etc...) with full adherence to the Bylaws as if the Chronicle was always a part of
OWbN.
Note:
During the 6 month Trial Period, the Admissions Coordinator, a Sub-Coordinator, or a duly appointed representative shall be assigned to work with the newly voted chronicle to help them adjust to membership in OWBN.