Welcome to the 2018 Annual Rules Vote! Thank you for taking an active role in the future of MECCG!
Please take note of the following:
- Voting will remain open until midnight on Tuesday, June 26th Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-07:00).
- You may change your vote as many times as you like during the voting period, however, the only vote that will count is your most recent vote when the polling period ends.
- All votes will be hidden until the voting period ends. Once the voting period is over, the final vote tally for each poll will be revealed. Individual votes will not be made public, except for Council Member votes on Status Quo items (see below) - these votes will be revealed after the voting period ends.
- The items on the ballot are separated into four categories, which are: Errata of Cards; Errata of Rules; Clarifications of Cards; and Clarifications of Rules. Both errata and clarifications issued as a result of the 2018 ARV will become official rules and integrated into the appropriate rules manuals. These rules will be used by all organized tournaments and events which are recognized or affiliated with the Council of Elrond. It is expected that most casual playgroups will likely adopt these rules as well. The difference between an erratum and a clarification is: an erratum is a change or alteration to a known rule or card text, whereas a clarification is a communal decision to interpret a card or rule in a specific way. Both errata and clarifications serve the purpose of making the rules of MECCG more concrete, which reduces confusion and makes MECCG more palatable to all.
- Three ballot items are listed as “Status Quo” ballot items. Status Quo items will be defined as such in the Additional Comments section of the topic. Your ROC defines a Status Quo item as: "One which means "No Change" if the issue is absolutely clear. If the issue is unclear, then it is not a status quo item." We used a very strict interpretation of this definition, which is why only 3 of the 42 ballot items were given this label.
Per our Charter: http://councilofelrond.org/charter-2/ , no more than 1/3 of Council Member votes may be in favor of the status quo in order to allow a change from the status quo. We currently have 8 acting Council Members, which means that 3 Council Members voting in favor of the status quo will prevent the status quo from changing, regardless of the number of total votes. For "non-Status Quo" items, a simply majority of all votes cast will determine the outcome.
- Finally, and this is extremely important:
You are not required to vote on every ballot item. We encourage you to vote on as many items as possible, but the decision on which and how many items to vote on is entirely up to you.
However, we ask that you please only vote on items which you both understand and have a clear opinion on. Voting for an item just to cast a vote, or to vote like you think a friend did, without giving it proper consideration for yourself, is dangerous and ultimately harms our game. We thank you for your cooperation and understanding in this regard!
Below these instructions you will find an index of links to navigate to each polling topic, broken down by category.
If you have any questions, please ask them in the Questions thread: viewtopic.php?f=144&t=3361
Please do not post questions or comments in the polling topics.
Most Sincerely,
Your Rules Oversight Committee
ERRATA OF CARDS
Ballot Item # 2 - A Malady Without Healing
Ballot Item # 39 - Akhorahil the Ringwraith
Ballot Item # 24 - Cave-Drake
Ballot Item # 40 - Come at Need
Ballot Item # 12 - Deep Mines
Ballot Item # 38 - Fear! Fire! Foes!
Ballot Item # 37 - Fever of Unrest
Ballot Item # 21 - Fortress of the Towers
Ballot Item # 22 - Freeze the Flesh
Ballot Item # 14 - Galadhrim
Ballot Item # 32 - Great Bats
Ballot Item # 29 - Guarded Haven
Ballot Item # 23 - Healing Herbs
Ballot Item # 18 - Hidden Ways
Ballot Item # 17 - Hide in Dark Places
Ballot Item # 1 - Leaflock & Skinbark
Ballot Item # 35B - Neither So Ancient Nor So Potent
Ballot Item # 31 - Old Cache
Ballot Item # 36 - Old Road
Ballot Item # 28 - Open to the Summons
Ballot Item # 26 - Paths of the Dead
Ballot Item # 25 - Returned Beyond All Hope
Ballot Item # 6 - Ringlore
Ballot Item # 10 - Shelob & The Will of Sauron with Doors of Night
Ballot Item # 41 - Spies Feared
Ballot Item # 4 - Strider
Ballot Item # 20 - The Fortress of Isen
Ballot Item # 19 - The One Ring
Ballot Item # 3 - The Under-Leas (hero version)
Ballot Item # 13 - The White Tree
Ballot Item # 33 - Token of Goodwill
ERRATA OF RULES
Ballot Item # 42 - Multi-player Games
Ballot Item # 7 - Removed from the Game & Removed from Play
Ballot Item # 34 - Special Orc and Troll Rules for Fallen-wizards
CLARIFICATIONS OF CARDS
Ballot Item # 9 - A Chance Meeting / We Have Come to Kill
Ballot Item # 35A - Neither So Ancient Nor So Potent
Ballot Item # 11 - Smoke Rings & Weigh All Things to a Nicety
Ballot Item # 8 - We Have Come to Kill & Ringwraith Followers
CLARIFICATIONS OF RULES
Ballot Item # 27 - Beginning / End of Phase & Turn
Ballot Item # 16 - Movement to a Site in Play
Ballot Item # 30 - Ready to His Will
Ballot Item # 5 - Region Movement for Hero Companies
Ballot Item # 15 - When a Company is At a Site
2018 ARV - Voting Instructions & Master Index - BEGIN HERE
If anybody was looking for the three SQs, they're: #12 (Deep Mines), #24 (Cave-drake) and #35a (Neither so Ancient Nor so Potent).the Jabberwock wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 3:37 amThree ballot items are listed as “Status Quo” ballot items.