| OOC | Out of Character |
|---|---|
| IC | In Character |
| MC | Membership Class. A bonus given to players for service to club |
| Downtime | The time that passes between games. Players submit what they want their character to have done leading up to the next session |
| Proxy | Sending your character to a game that you can not attend in person |
| ST | Story Teller - in other systems, a GM or games master |
| Coordinator | The person in charge of organizing the game. The STs handle story and plot aspects of the game, the Coordinators handle everything else. |
| Venue | The location of an actual game, and the basic unit of the club. Usually each Genre has its own Venue...quite frequently it's the same physical location, but different games. Domain+Genre=Venue |
| Domain | Typically a Domain corresponds to a City. A domain typical consists of several Venues. |
| Genre | The Cam plays several White Wolf Games. At the moment, we play Vampire: Requiem, Mage: The Awakening, and Werewolf: The Forsaken. A Domain can have several genres... usually one Venue per Genre |
| VST | Venue Story Teller: The ST running a the local game. |
| VC | Venue Coordinator: The Coordinator setting up the local game. The VC is responsible for setting up, shutting down, organizing Drink and Snacks, and so forth. |
| DST | Domain Story Teller: Responsible for coordinating the in-game plots and storylines for a Domain. Most games are reasonably self contained, but since they are happening in the same city, sometimes what happens in one game will effect other games. Such as when someone blows up a major landmark... yes, it has happened. |
| DC | Domain Coordinator: Co-ordinates the activities of the various VCs. Is usually responsible for hiring the hall, paying the rent, banking and so forth. |
| NST | National Story Teller: Handles in-game plots and storylines for the entire country. |
| NC | National Coordinator |
| DNC | Deputy National Coordinator |
| AVC,AVST,ADC etc | Most positions can have assistants... thus ADC is Assistant Domain Coordinator, and so forth. |
| Cheese | A slang term, generally meaning character
abilities that are powerful out of proportion to the cost. No system is
perfect, and most game systems have the potential to be rorted. WoD is
no exception... Cheese or Cheesing is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it isn't misused... but building stupidly optimized characters and then using them to kill or dominate other player characters is frowned upon. |
| Newbie | A new player. New players are encouraged...please play!! and it is club policy to actively involve new players in plot, and avoid killing off new characters until they've had a chance to get used to the game. This is not an excuse to abuse the the system, though... |