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LRA - Myths and Facts
Ok alot of people have been spreading alot of inaccurate or misconceptual information about the LRA as a whole wanted to clear this up quickly and concisely for the record, hope this helps please direct your questions to myself should you have any supercannuck@gmail.com and i'll try my best to straighten them out.
Here we go in a myth/fact format.
Myth: White Wolf owns the LRA.
Fact: White Wolf does not own the LRA, we entered into a licencing agreement with White Wolf, instead of bartering back and forth what the license would cost us for the rights to use the material and getting into some large numbers both parties agree'd using the Cam Number for Members system was the lowest cost most fluid process for us. It allows us to present to teh members of both organizations a more diverse group of games and meet the needs and desires of all members.
Myth: The LRA and the Camarilla are competators and it's bad to be in both orgs.
Fact: This is complete fabrication, we have looked at this very closely and to be honest the two organizations are not only complimentary but also allow both orgs to reach a larger audience through cooperative advertising and membership sharing teh goal is to create a larger group of members in both organizations to role play and form lasting friendships with, if I remember that's why we started doing thsi in the first place.
Myth: By having a camarilla number you automatically get an LRA membership.
Fact: This one is only partial myth, the truth is your Camarilla number entitles you to join the LRA this is true, as a requirement to LRA membership you need to go to www.lra-rpg.com and fill out the membership form. Your application will be quickly processed and you will recieve a confirmation e-mail. Since the LRA uses different structures and rewards from the Camarilla this is done for tracking purposes and to generate LRA centric membership and communication lists.
Character based Myths.
Myth: I can play any character I want in the LRA even if it is the same concept as my old Camarilla Character.
Fact: While this was origionally true, we have since taken a long look at this, and revised it to, you may portray any character concept including your old Camarilla one in all venues that are not currently running in the Camarilla under the OWoD. This means that you cannot portray the same concept in Changling and Mage at the current time.
Myth: The LRA will be running the same stories as the Camarilla.
Fact: This could not be further from teh truth, the LRA is not only running different stories we're also looking at many possible changes to Cannon over hte next 3 years. Understand the the basic premise as it comes to Cannon is that Cannon is not changing in hte OWoD so therefore the LRA could not possibly run the same stories, our goal is to run new stories based on the actions of the players and to work towards allowing the players to dictate the direction and scope of the stories covered.
Myth: The Camarilla Mage/Changeling venues and the LRA Mage/Changeling venues overlap.
Fact: This is not true in any sense again the venues are separate and using information from the other organization is not only against teh rules but also against the spirit of the agreement between the orgainzations and the strucutres of the agreement.
Myth: The LRA is not going to support hte entire World of Darkness.
Fact: This is not true we are in the process of hiring AGST's for the Mage, Mortals and wraith venues. These should eb up and running in teh next 3 months.
Myth: the LRA is trying to run an elders based game.
Fact: This is simply not true our creation rules do look this way at first glance, heck even I thought it, however the facts are we are seeing a non elders game rapidly forming which is representatvie of alot of the different ideas and such presented in the source materials. Yes Elders do exsist and yes anyone can play one with approval but it's interesting to see the reverse happening.
Myth: Charles Bailey is really the dark lord of the sith and I am his evil apprentice.
Fact: Simply false...really it is....we are not the dark lords yoru looking for....move along.
Well those are the ones ican think of off the top of my head again any concerns questions or such please e-mail supercannuck@gmail.com.
Michael Lee
Global Coordinator
Live Action Roleplayers Association
Here we go in a myth/fact format.
Myth: White Wolf owns the LRA.
Fact: White Wolf does not own the LRA, we entered into a licencing agreement with White Wolf, instead of bartering back and forth what the license would cost us for the rights to use the material and getting into some large numbers both parties agree'd using the Cam Number for Members system was the lowest cost most fluid process for us. It allows us to present to teh members of both organizations a more diverse group of games and meet the needs and desires of all members.
Myth: The LRA and the Camarilla are competators and it's bad to be in both orgs.
Fact: This is complete fabrication, we have looked at this very closely and to be honest the two organizations are not only complimentary but also allow both orgs to reach a larger audience through cooperative advertising and membership sharing teh goal is to create a larger group of members in both organizations to role play and form lasting friendships with, if I remember that's why we started doing thsi in the first place.
Myth: By having a camarilla number you automatically get an LRA membership.
Fact: This one is only partial myth, the truth is your Camarilla number entitles you to join the LRA this is true, as a requirement to LRA membership you need to go to www.lra-rpg.com and fill out the membership form. Your application will be quickly processed and you will recieve a confirmation e-mail. Since the LRA uses different structures and rewards from the Camarilla this is done for tracking purposes and to generate LRA centric membership and communication lists.
Character based Myths.
Myth: I can play any character I want in the LRA even if it is the same concept as my old Camarilla Character.
Fact: While this was origionally true, we have since taken a long look at this, and revised it to, you may portray any character concept including your old Camarilla one in all venues that are not currently running in the Camarilla under the OWoD. This means that you cannot portray the same concept in Changling and Mage at the current time.
Myth: The LRA will be running the same stories as the Camarilla.
Fact: This could not be further from teh truth, the LRA is not only running different stories we're also looking at many possible changes to Cannon over hte next 3 years. Understand the the basic premise as it comes to Cannon is that Cannon is not changing in hte OWoD so therefore the LRA could not possibly run the same stories, our goal is to run new stories based on the actions of the players and to work towards allowing the players to dictate the direction and scope of the stories covered.
Myth: The Camarilla Mage/Changeling venues and the LRA Mage/Changeling venues overlap.
Fact: This is not true in any sense again the venues are separate and using information from the other organization is not only against teh rules but also against the spirit of the agreement between the orgainzations and the strucutres of the agreement.
Myth: The LRA is not going to support hte entire World of Darkness.
Fact: This is not true we are in the process of hiring AGST's for the Mage, Mortals and wraith venues. These should eb up and running in teh next 3 months.
Myth: the LRA is trying to run an elders based game.
Fact: This is simply not true our creation rules do look this way at first glance, heck even I thought it, however the facts are we are seeing a non elders game rapidly forming which is representatvie of alot of the different ideas and such presented in the source materials. Yes Elders do exsist and yes anyone can play one with approval but it's interesting to see the reverse happening.
Myth: Charles Bailey is really the dark lord of the sith and I am his evil apprentice.
Fact: Simply false...really it is....we are not the dark lords yoru looking for....move along.
Well those are the ones ican think of off the top of my head again any concerns questions or such please e-mail supercannuck@gmail.com.
Michael Lee
Global Coordinator
Live Action Roleplayers Association
