Camarilla Master Storyteller journal

QUOTE(jadedeath @ Nov 29 2006, 12:17 AM)

I'd say that if you storytell in a global org like the Camarilla... don't have your character in the same org... play in an independent game... I've seen it many MANY times and it never works out... from Camarilla {horror stories} to the S.U. to the OWBN... I've yet to see it cause anything but problems on one level or another one person eventually fucks it up for the rest of 'em and we have situations like people approving shit that will eventually help themselves...

best bet is to run a massive org and just hang with your friends and play in a smaller one...

Logan

And that's something that works just fine for some folks. However, that really gets hairy in some instances - in essence, like one of the replies on Alex's LJ said, you'd be asking the ST in question to not ever do the thing they joined the club to do. I know, I know - the "obvious" response there, then, is "Well, don't be a Storyteller". The fact of the matter is that we then wouldn't have enough Storytellers to go around. While that may or may not be an acceptable loss to those not in the club (I don't know everyone that isn't in the club - or in it, really, for that matter), it would really suck for the people that *are* in the club. It's sometimes hard enough to find ST's as it is, in some areas.

In addition - let me use my own position as an example. I'm the Assistant Regional Storyteller (ARST) for the Forsaken venue in my region. What that basically entails is that I can create plot for the venue across the entire region, introduce NPC's, settings elements, history, that sort of thing - with local ST support and involvement, to be sure. I see local ST reports every month, but they rarely, if ever, go into enough depth on any given plot that I know all the ins and outs of said plot. Hell, even my local ST doesn't give me full disclosure on the plots he runs, and he uses me as a brainstorming tool all the time. Between that and the fact that I tend to make either very focused (my last character was a Klaive Duelist, and his solution to pretty much anything was "kill it"), or some sort of supportive teacher role (for instance, my next character will hopefully be a member of the Lodge of Ashes, and I hope to use him to get other PC's to question the use of fetishes, and their roles and relationships with spirits), I feel that I'm not particularly swayed by any "inside knowledge" of any plot. I don't take leadership roles, I don't "solve" plot for anyone, and I sure as hell stay as far away as possible from any plot I myself have written. So, I think that someone in a role such as mine is relatively free from that complication.

Now - a local ST, who is actually running games (I got to run 3 sessions at a Convention, and that's pretty much it as far as what I've actually *run*, first hand - at least in the Cam) - that I can see a much more "hands off" approach on. Maybe even at the Domain level - maybe. But certainly at Regional and higher...we just don't have the first-hand knowledge of every single little local plot that's going on everywhere (at least, I know I don't, so I'll make a few presumptions) to make that really that much of a CoI. I'm certainly not trying to say Regional + storytellers are "better" than the lower-level ones - I'm just saying that we don't have enough info to be "dangerous", in many situations.

Hope that made some sense. And, as always, that's just my opinion.