Mod Philosophy

Who We Are

The moderator team in When the Wind Blows is comprised of Cass and Gwen. We have worked together as moderators online for about 4 years now and have gamed together for far, far longer. Among the games that we have been involved with are "The Carnivorous Wardrobe," "Hand of Glory," "Seventh Sense," "Machines of Destiny," "Wands and Order," and "Regulation."

You will find that we like creativity. We aren't afraid to try out new ideas and shake up the world of traditional roleplaying. That said, we do have the ability to acknowledge a mistake and move on. We ask anyone who applies to this game to meet a basic set of expectations but we would also like to present to you a part of what our role is. If you need clarification or have questions about any of these, please just shoot us an email.

What You Can Expect From Us

We believe that the role of moderators in a game is not to babysit the players, nor is it to force-feed plot. We are here to facilitate a game, simply speaking, and these are some of the things we hope to provide:

• We will help to facilitate communication between players.
• We will help to organize plot and run global plots and subplots as needed.
• We will provide structure for the game and the group, both in a game and meta sense.
• We will make the utmost effort to respect our players and to try to keep an open channel of conversation about all things, good and bad, with the game. Even if it is something that we don't want to hear or don't like, we will always try to treat our players with respect and open a dialogue rather than shutting down.
• We will provide a setting and atmosphere in which players can play AND worldbuild through collaborative community effort.
• We will always try to communicate with you about what we're doing and where we want to go.
• We will enforce the rules as necessary.

What We Expect From You

But the moderators are not the only thing that makes a game work. We need players to meet a certain set of expectations, all of which we will do our best to serve as examples of. That said, as part of the covenant between mods and players, this is what we would ask of you:

• We're going to have some new ideas and ways of playing. Give them a chance before deciding that you don't like it - we always like feedback. Tell us what works, but also what doesn't. That's what the mod email's for.
• Show respect to your fellow players and to your moderators. Respect isn't just using polite language. Sometimes, respect means being direct even if it's something we don't want to hear. Polite is an attitude, not a set of words.
• Trust the moderators to listen to you and to make the best decision that they can for the game. Understand that we are here to make our players happy; that said, we have to look at what is best for the game as a whole.
• Take responsibility for your actions. This includes OOC drama, yes, but it also includes things like plot. If you set something up, then disappear for three months, be understanding of the fact that others may need to move on.
• We don't believe in retributive gameplay. Whatever happens in other games doesn't have bearing on When The Wind Blows - don't bring drama from there to here. Particularly with so many players in two games at once, we ask you to leave the other game at the door when you log on to play in When, and vice versa.
• Come to us with situations that you can't handle. We don't want or expect to be the arbitrators of every little disagreement - we're all adults. We expect players to try to resolve issues between themselves first. That said, there is no reason for you to come to a point of feeling that you need to leave the game before you come to a mod. It is much, much harder to deal with something that's already hit critical mass then trying to avoid that state to begin with.
• Feel free to share your ideas, come up with new things, and invent, create, and have fun!

How to Get in Touch

Easiest way? Shoot us an email. We can be reached at whenthewindblows AT gmail.com.

If for some reason, you are asking a mod question and you send it to only one moderator's personal email, we WILL forward it to the other mod. We've set the mod email to forward to our personals - please, save us the time and just use the gmail.