This pulling Inspiration from Al-Anon's Twelve Traditions, which seems to help keep a large organization functional.
It may feel a bit saccharine for our purposes, but the strength in the source inspiration shouldn't be dismissed lightly.
- Our common interests should come first; personal enjoyment for the greatest number depends upon unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one authority—a creative force that expresses itself in our group conscience. Game leaders are but trusted servants—they do not govern.
- Gamers, when gathered together for mutual enjoyment, may call themselves a gaming table, provided that, as a group, they have no other personal agendas. The only requirement for play is that there be a desire for collective amusement.
- Each gaming table should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another group or the community as a whole.
- Each gaming table has but one purpose: to enjoy the game. We do this by participating in earnest ourselves, by encouraging and supporting our fellow players, and by welcoming and accepting new players to the community.
- Gaming tables ought never endorse, co-mingle or lend our stories to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, intellectual property and prestige divert us from our primary entertainment goals. As separate entities, we should always seek consent and collaboration if these stories expand into other projects or products.
- The gaming groups ought to be free and open, declining any required fees.
- Gaming tables should remain forever non-professional, but any donations will go towards server expenses.
- Our group, as such, ought never be organized with mandatory roles; but gaming tables may form responsibilities directly related to those they serve.
- The group has no opinion on current topical issues; our collective play ought never be mired with public controversy. However, stories at the tables may include broad themes present across historical time frames.
- Our invitation policy is based on attraction of friends and acquaintances rather than mass public promotion; we need always maintain some degree of personal connection between members of the overall community. We need guard with special care the respect and dignity of all members.
- Creativity and congeniality are the central foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.