Quick question about dojos

MidKnight · Jan 21, 2002

Dojos can align themselves with more than one brown belt right?? I though I read it somewhere but can't access it right now (for obvious reasons.)

Wicht · Jan 21, 2002

If they could I did not realize it - I will have to look at the rules again...

Wicht · Jan 21, 2002

hmm...

I just discovered there is nothing on taking oaths in the advancement page...

I was thinking but I may have it backwards that fighters can only pledge themselves to a single brown belt but could be joined to more than one red belt.

Like I said I may have it backwards.

Phoenix8008 · Jan 21, 2002

Well Wicht, the Oaths don't happen till Great Master which is the rank above Brown belt. This (and the other 'Master' ranks) were never put into the rules because they were still being playtested I believe. Luckily I printed them out before all those threads dissapeared, so I have hard copies here.

Under 'Brown Belt, Dojo Grandmaster' it says "Existing or new Green Belts may ask to serve the Brown Belt. The entire Dojo becomes part of the Grandmaster Group record."

So it does not say that a dojo can serve multiple Brown Belts, but it doesn't say you can't either!

As for the Oaths, they also don't say one way or the other if one fighter can take Oaths with multiple Masters. Flavor wise, I would think that this should not be allowed, but that's my take.

graydoom · Jan 21, 2002

Wicht said:
hmm...

I just discovered there is nothing on taking oaths in the advancement page...

I was thinking but I may have it backwards that fighters can only pledge themselves to a single brown belt but could be joined to more than one red belt.

Like I said I may have it backwards.

Sadly, the dojo grandmaster, enlightened master, and so on never got really, truly finalized and as such never got added to the advancement page, IIRC.

I remember it being that you can pledge yourself to only one brown belt or dojo grandmaster, but can pledge yourself to as many enlightened masters as you want.

MidKnight · Jan 21, 2002

I don't know if that would be the case or not - but the problem that arises is this:

Lady Tsin is on hiatus and seemed to be killing off her character in her last posts (all of which are on the old boards, which I didn't get the chance to look over before they were closed.) With her gone, there is no leadership - now I know that I'm a poor substitute for her, but I believe that she was attempting to hand over the 'reigns' of leadership to another when she held the tourny. Most all of the active dojos had sworn allegence to her, but with her gone, it becomes meaningless and pointless.

Wicht · Jan 21, 2002

I think the rule ought to be only one dojo master at a time for a dojo - but thats just my take.

Oops about the oaths - I was thinking they kicked in earlier...

Sadly, under the current set up, dojos that were pledged to Lady Tsin may not switch their allegiance - strange but true - we got to make it a little better for the newer rules - my suggestion is this - a person who wants to switch teachers may do so, but must prior to doing so, drop their dojo style and win a fight without it - as soon as they win that next fight, moving from say yellow 1 to yellow 2 sans dojo they may join another dojo. You may not switch dojos by winning a fight if you did not declare you were switching before the fight started and swore off allegiance to your old dojo. In other words you have to burn your bridges.

Phoenix8008 · Jan 21, 2002

That sounds like a good method for changing alleigences, Wicht. I like it.

graydoom · Jan 21, 2002

Wicht said:
Sadly, under the current set up, dojos that were pledged to Lady Tsin may not switch their allegiance - strange but true - we got to make it a little better for the newer rules - my suggestion is this - a person who wants to switch teachers may do so, but must prior to doing so, drop their dojo style and win a fight without it - as soon as they win that next fight, moving from say yellow 1 to yellow 2 sans dojo they may join another dojo. You may not switch dojos by winning a fight if you did not declare you were switching before the fight started and swore off allegiance to your old dojo. In other words you have to burn your bridges.

Sounds good to me! And makes sense, at that!

MidKnight · Jan 21, 2002

So the semi-final word on dojo alignment is that they cannot change (even though the player has left the game)?

Wish I would have thought of that when I was deciding between brown and red belt...