Requirements for becoming VEKN Prince

 

 

Note: A player has to be at least 15 years of age to become a VEKN Prince. The name and e-mail address of the player will be displayed on the White Wolf homepage. He is also required to submit his postal address and phone number.

 

 

A VEKN Prince is required to do the following:

 

·         Make himself familiar with the game. He has to have a good knowledge of the rules and be an active player himself. He has to make sure that

·         Organise regular play in his domain. Best are weekly gaming nights at a store or a public location, but any method is acceptable. Players should be made aware of the gaming sessions.

·         Keep his players informed about current errata, rulings and clarifactions (www.white-wolf.com/vtes/rulings.html), as well as news about expansions, events, etc. A mailing list of some kind greatly helps here. Other Princes in the vicinity may be of help here.

·         Organise tournaments on a more or less regular basis, or find someone who does for him. For these tournaments the VEKN tournament rules and rating-system are to be used. In some cases there might be too few players in a city to organise a tournament, the prince should then focus on demo-games. This in no way prohibits a player becoming prince of his particular city.

·         Apply for sanctioning (see http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/veknTournament.html) with VEKN when planning tournaments

Sanctioned tournaments require the use of the most recent VEKN tournament rules and erratas and rulings from White Wolfs official NetRep L. Scott Johnson (LSJ).

·         Make a list of planned activites in his city so that it can be displayed in appropriate ways.

·         See to it that players in your city enter themselves into the WW VTES-player database (www.white-wolf.com/VTES). Princes should elect Primogen; they help the prince in handling the citiy’s affairs. The VEKN will make sure that other princes in the given geographical area take advantage of the information you provide.

·         Promote VTES in every way possible, this may be through advertising, demo-playing, tournaments, or whatever way the Prince deems suitable. Especially demo-ing is a key to spreading the game. A Prince should always have a number of easy-to-play sample decks with him.

·         Act as a contact where new players can go to when in search for other players, cards to trade, or general information about VTES. Answer rules-questions from new players, and help them through their first steps.

 

The above points are just a rough guideline, and though the VEKN asks the Prince applicant to stick to it, there may be exceptions, but not without good reason.

 

 

Some useful resources for VEKN Princes:

 

The URL of the VEKN-homepage is

                        www.white-wolf.com/VTES

A list of current VEKN Princes is displayed there, along with the players database, a demogame, cardlists, errata/rulings/clarifications and tournament rules for VTES.

 

Another useful resource is the VTES newsgroup:

                        rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Also, there is the Yahoo VTES-club:

                        http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/vtes

You can also subscribe to the VTES-L mailing-list, where VTES related topics are discussed and questions can be asked. Simply send a mail to

                        listserv@oracle.wizards.com

with subscribe vtes-l <first name> <last name> in the body of the message (with no subject line).

 

Support for Princes in a number of ways:

 

·         They will be part of a mailing list, in order to discuss topics related to the game and to relay news very fast. This mailing list is called the Conclave. It is not open to anyone, only Princes, the game designer and WW-staff can read and post messages there. To become authorized a Prince needs to be officially appointed, the VEKN membership director then takes care of adding the Prince to the mailing list.

·         They can download an easy to handle tournament report sheet for sending back results of tournaments. The Archon can be found at the bottom of www.white-wolf.com/VTES.

·         They can get lists of local players in their respective geographical area via the player-database (www.white-wolf.com/vtes/member) if there already are entries.

·         Princes get a block of VEKN numbers (see the prefix in the VEKN Prince-list), that they have to allocate to individual players the first time they take part in VTES tournaments. These numbers identify the players world-wide, and also enable them to have a VTES-rating.

·         Princes can apply for prize support for any VEKN tournaments they are holding. The instructions can be found at www.white-wolf.com/vtes/veknPrizeSupport.html. They just have to make sure that all the guidelines are followed to the letter.

 

The job of a VEKN Prince is a very important one, it is the key position in bringing new players into the game, and providing the existing players with news and support and at the same time voice the opinion of the local players to the VEKN. Being VEKN Prince bears a lot of responsibility, the VEKN Prince is the person players should go to when they have problems or any ideas. He is also the one who elects Primogens (local group contacts) that assist him in his task.

 

 

VEKN membership director

vtessupport at white-wolf.com