Creating and Changing Things: The General Rules of Development

We here at Player’s Haven believe in growing both as a community and a system. As such we encourage an open exchange of ideas. For story and character ideas, we have the Random Blurbs in the Haven for the Player’s section of the site. For system ideas, we have the Development section.

Development is designed to further the growth of the Haven system. This means many things for player and Storytellers. It means that things might change in between Development Quarters, though never without announcement. It also means that we will have new things coming out. To organize the release of the new things, we now have Development Quarters, periods of three months that are used to develop and discuss any additions.

While it is highly appreciated that you use the standard format when posting in the Development section, the only subsections that it is required is New Mechanics and Retooling. All original entries for these sections that are not in the acceptable format will be ignored. If they are still there and unacceptable at the end of the Development Quarter, they will be deleted.

We here at Player’s Haven are aware that sometimes the discussion of new things is as important as the final decision. As such, we try to keep the discussion of Development topics in a written format and available for future review. This occasionally means things get posted in odd ways, such as HTML pages. It is the plan at this time not to delete these discussions, but archive them.

All additions to the Haven system will be posted in their appropriate section by the primary administrative account, Fate. While access to this account is highly regulated, all additions will be decided upon by a simple vote among the site administrators with a clear two-thirds majority being the deciding factor. Any major changes that make it pass this vote may be appealed by Fate at any time before implementation with a veto of at least three administrators. Major changes are considered to be the mechanical changes to five or more abilities, any change to something out of System Basics, or something that will change how play flows.

The Development section will be checked on a weekly basis for new posts. Any new topics will be added to the linked list of the section in which they were posted. Clean up will happen after approved items have been implemented, usually after the posting for that Development Quarter.