Peacekeepers (Previously Speakers)

Moderation. They make sure the smut stays in the pillow fort, the official tracking channels stay clean of clutter, and act as the eyes and ears of the Admin Lead on possible forum malfunctions or tracking errors.

Your road to the Council. Have a new UA you want looked over? An idea for a holiday themed event? Not happy with how certain things were sanctioned? Let a peacekeeper bring your thoughts to the Admin Lead for the Council to see.

Anonymous Complaint System. These individuals are also the anonymous complaint, request, and no confidence avenues for players and staff. At any time you can reach out to a @peacekeeper for an impartial reporting and venting. Peacekeepers can and will bring forward problems as impartially as possible. Be sure to let them know if you want to remain anonymous, they will do their best to resolve the issue without involving the person who reported it.

Your voice. Any matter of player disputes, cheating, or bullying brought before the Council will have a Peacekeeper assigned to each party to advocate and ensure that they get to have their say. Any rulings on these matters will come directly from the Council.

Forum fairies! In certain cases, Peacekeepers who are interested maybe tasked with forum upkeep, special forum theme creations for special events, and character tracking if they are interested.

Benefits:

This position is awarded:

-1 Level Advancement (+1 Level) on a single character of their choice up to Level 16, at time of appointment.

-Can earn up to 10 Staff Treasure points for duties completed each month.

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Magistrate (Admin Lead)

1. Appoint and manage Peacekeepers.
2. Head of Complaints, sanctioning requests, new ideas and forum updates.
3. Organize and present all player requests, ideas, and complaints to the Council at meetings.
4. Bringer of updates to Staff and Players alike after all Council meetings.
5. Update and add any new sanctions, rules, and regulations to forum as quickly as possible.
6. Council and advise the Peacekeepers to keep SCA functioning as smoothly as possible.
7. Forums and discord management.
8. Purging of inactive members.
9. Tracking of all disciplinary rulings, banning, and player kicking.
10. Spreadsheet Wizarding
11. Collect and post Staff rewards for active months.

Benefits:

-Each Lead is granted one bonus listed below of their choosing to a single character of their choosing when they take their post. This occurs only once.

               +3 Levels to a Character below Level 6, to a maximum of 6, or

               +2 Levels to a Character below Level 11 to a maximum of 11, or

               +1 Level to a Character below Level 16 to a maximum of 16.

-Can earn up to 10 Staff Treasure points for duties completed each month.

Character Wizard

Character Creation. Check & approve Characters from creation.

Tutor. Help new players in the community understand and use the character creation process.

Mechanics. Help players to understand and best use the mechanics of their foundry sheets.

Background. Know the more subtle discrepancies in the character created. Ie: A Hexblade Warlock set-up in foundry that has a fiend as their patron in their backstory.

Color-Coding. Be familiar with the different character level colors and restrictions for them. If a character is submitted that has an approval level above Blue Level it is the CW's job to notify and keep up with the necessary approval authorities of the character.

Character Upkeep. Auditing or reviewing of currently active characters as decided by the CW Lead. This might include auditing levels, or spells gained, as well as items.

Character Leveling. CWs are expected to review a character’s sheet at all milestone levels (6, 11, 16) and any character rebuilds for the same issues as a new character. 

Benefits:

This position is awarded:

-1 Level Advancement (+1 Level) on a single character of their choice up to Level 16, at time of appointment.

-Can earn up to 10 Staff Treasure points for duties completed each month.

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Character Archmage (CW Lead)

1. Appoint and manage Character Wizards.
2. Head of Characters.
3. Ensure quick turnaround of character’s approval.
4. Organizing of all approvers needed for each Character.
5. Approve Red sanctioned characters, assigning of other characters to staff.
6. Know & understand the character creation process as well as the color-coded system used in SCA.
7. Manage Character Tracker and update sever as well as Admin team of any holds on classes, races, or backgrounds.
8. Approve and color code newly sanctioned races, classes, backgrounds, and feat.
9. Amend or change character creation process as needed for ease of use for both CW staff and players.
10. Amend or change sanctioning color of Races, backgrounds, classes, and feats for sanctioned material as needed for diversity of server.

 

Benefits:

-Each Lead is granted one bonus listed below of their choosing to a single character of their choosing when they take their post. This occurs only once.

               +3 Levels to a Character below Level 6, to a maximum of 6, or

               +2 Levels to a Character below Level 11 to a Maximum of 11, or

               +1 Level to a Character below Level 16 to a Maximum of 16.

-Can earn up to 10 Staff Treasure points for duties completed each month.

Lore Seeker (previously keepers)

Seekers of the histories! Have a question about our cannon history? Want to know where your character would most likely have come from in the Forgotten Realm? Our Lore team has a strong knowledge of the Forgotten Realms cannon as well as the important events and NPC’s of our server community.

Fact Checking. Lore can and will answer most player questions and will be the ones combing over new character backgrounds for discrepancies in the histories. If you’re not sure about anything in your backstory give @LoreSeeker a shout in the discord.

Forum Historians. The Lore team is currently working on updating the histories section of our Forums to include events from character points of view, and a summary of major past events in out server history.

Continuity. Lore is responsible for the upkeep of our Community Created Continuity and to follow the direction of the Lore Lead as it pertains to their position.

Benefits:

This position is awarded:

-1 Level Advancement (+1 Level) on a single character of their choice up to Level 16, at time of appointment.

-Can earn up to 10 Staff Treasure points for duties completed each month.

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Lore Lord (Lore Lead)

1. Appoint and mange Lore Team
2. Head of Server Cannon
3. Know-it-all of the Forgotten Realms
4. Organizer and preserver of in game histories and changes to those histories.
5. Evaluating of all new sanctioned material for setting value
6. History/setting referee

 

Benefits:

-Each Lead is granted one bonus listed below of their choosing to a single character of their choosing when they take their post. This occurs only once.

               +3 Levels to a Character below Level 6, to a maximum of 6, or

               +2 Levels to a Character below Level 11 to a maximum of 11, or

               +1 Level to a Character below Level 16 to a maximum of 16.

-Can earn up to 10 Staff Treasure points for duties completed each month.

Dungeon Master

A Dungeon Masters job is not one of knowing all the rules or giving all the players what they want.

 

Run games. It is the job of a DM to organize and run games that further the overall story of the ongoing world of the 'In-character' community.

Game referees. Also known as cat-herders, stern overlords, but most of all they are storytellers.

Plot Management. DM’s are asked to provide a short synopsis of their plot and the outcome of said plot to further the Server histories after each game in the forums.

Rules & Mechanics. DM’s should have a decent knowledge of DND game rules, mechanics, and general know-how. They are also responsible for answering questions in the Mechanics and role play coordination chats in the discord.

 

DMs come in different tiers and types just as Adventures do. Most new DM’s will start at T1 and will have to prove themselves to be promoted to the next tier. DMs with lots of experience may be promoted faster than new DMs.

 

Tier 1 - Local - Levels 1-6: These adventures take place in or around major metropolitan areas and have little impact on the Setting World. They are encouraged to focus on Character Backstory and Growth, allowing the Players to become comfortable with new characters.

Tier 2 - Regional - Levels 5-11: Adventures in this Tier have impacts on the Cities they are in and the surrounding communities. There is a high chance of garnering the attention of local Nobility, for good or ill, and characters will begin interacting with Organizations and NPCs that have larger reaching influence.

Tier 3 - National - Levels 10-16: Quests with this Tier deal with Nobility and Organizational Politics and Intrigue that has a great effect on the shape of the Sword Coast and its Neighbors, even requiring the adventurers to travel outside of the Sword Coast itself.

Tier 4 - Global - Levels 15+: While these are the rarest of Adventures, they have the largest impact on the Setting World, dealing with NPCs such as Elminster and Manshoon, Royalty, and even perhaps Deities.

Social Dungeon Master (Court Masters): These are those who organize Play-By-Post activities for the community in order to facilitate Roleplay. This can be a grand ball or a small get-together for a wine tasting or a Festival celebrating a Deity. They may also be asked to help run role-playing for a plot or play NPCs. These DMs may NOT run combat or major plots.

Probationary Dungeon Master: ANY Dungeon Master that is new to Dungeons and Dragons, our Community, Online Role-playing, OR Foundry. Probationary DMs are restricted to Tier 1 games for a minimum of three (3) games. Plot and mechanics involved MUST be gone over fully with an established DM. DM Lead will decide when the probationary DM has proven themselves capable of being promoted to a full DM. During the Probationary time, if a situation is deemed to have gone too far out of control, the possibility of Retroactive Continuity may be considered.

 

Benefits:

-1 Level Advancement (+1 Level) on a single character of their choice up to Level 16, at time of appointment, and at each promotion of tier. In total 4 level advancements (can be used on a separate character each time granted) for reaching Tier 4 Dungeon Master.

-DM’s are awarded the same reward as is awarded to characters who are in their games at the same time as the characters. While the AP and TP of the DMs awards will be numerically the same as the players, this award is considered staff and follows staff reward rules of no limit and can be distributed as they see fit.

-DMs will receive a bonus allotment of 5TP per calendar month if they run four or more games in a month.

-Is not limited to the max of 10tp per month.

-Mentoring: If a player wants to be a DM but has never done so before, and an active DM can assist with the training of that player, they will earn extra TP above and beyond the rewards listed above at the discretion of the DM Lead.

-Social DM’s will have a standard award for their games. (1AP and 2TP) Social DMs awards are the same as regular DM awards. No other awards to players other than AP and TP can be granted without approval by the DM Lead. Social DMs do not receive a Level Advancement until after their first 3 events run as a Court Master.

-Probationary DMs will use the standard AP/TP rewards system, and may NOT grant ANY other boons, items, or gold to players. Probationary DMs will receive the same as regular DMs with the exception of the level to a character, that will be given when DM has been promoted to T1 DM.

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Puppet Master (DM Lead)

1. Appoint, Manage and Promote DMs.
2. Head Game Master
3. Manage sever storylines to prevent clashes or plot derailers.
4. Keeping up with the ‘in-character’ impact of the game on server.
5. Server-wide ‘Dungeon Master’s resource’ for all things 5E.
6. Tracking players' opinions of DMs and games, to prevent any ‘dancing’ situations.
7. Approve all storylines created for use in the server.
8. Check all new Sanctioning for game-breaking features.  

 

Benefits:

-Each Lead is granted one bonus listed below of their choosing to a single character of their choosing when they take their post. This occurs only once.

               +3 Levels to a Character below Level 6, to a maximum of 6, or

               +2 Levels to a Character below Level 11 to a maximum of 11, or

               +1 Level to a Character below Level 16 to a maximum of 16.

-Can earn up to 10 Staff Treasure points for duties completed each month.