Ok, as per the votes going on concerning Rogue Bijū, I am proposing that council members be responsible for appointing a GM to play the part of the rogue Bijū.
If that passes, IF IF IF:
what guidelines for the appointment are required for the council to follow?
what guidelines for the GM's behavior are required?
Mostly I am thinking about a biased situation and how to avoid that. Certainly if it is blatantly clear the GM is favoring one participant over another something would have to be done.
But am I being nitpicky, or does anyone else think this is a required discussion?
My thoughts are this:
Say for instance I am chosen to be the GM. But one of the participants is Asadi? You might think I would play favorites but I would kill him as readily as if his opponent were Yujo.
sorry dear but GMing is kind of sacred to me and I am awfully fond of my soul.
But should I be excluded from the task? Just by our character alignments to one another I might ethically be void from participation in order to keep anxiety about how I would proceed out of the equation.
I know how I would behave, but until given the chance to prove it, it certainly would make people doubt. Should we just avoid that issue all together and say no to Moenkopi GMing this?
Anyway, I am sure there are many other instance where the choice of GM would be unacceptable: village Kage of participant, spouse/family member, affiliation leader/commander...
Secondly, once the GM is chosen, there is the question of what recourse do the participants have if bias or incompetence is detected?
Also, GM inactivity. In the event of such a horrid occurrence and dereliction of duty...I propose replacement in 7 days period. No one need make this complicated due to personal leave or whatever. I don't think replacing a GM should have extensions or the like because they are not going to lose out on their chance to own a bijuu. Their role is supplementary to the main event.