Pig and Whistle Society

Overview

The Pig and Whistle Explorer's Society, more commonly known as the Pig and Whistle Society, is a brand new World of Warcraft guild founded for, and run by, members of the RPG.net forums. It is intended to be a sister guild of sorts to the Blacksky Company. While the two guilds aren't meant to cooperate in game, out of game they should be friendly and cooperative.

The Pig and Whistle Society is an Alliance-side guild, based on the North-American Kirin Tor Roleplaying server. The RPGnet channel (joined by typing /join RPGnet) is a good place for people to meet who haven't yet been introduced into the guild.

Members are expected to assist each other, and to be civil to each other out of character. Normal speech is to be used (no leet-speak!), and all efforts to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization will be appreciated.

News and discussion about the guild will take place in the Other Games Open forum on RPG.net. Relevant topics will begin with the [Pig and Whistle] tag.

In-Game Background

(Draft)It started out 200 years ago as a gentleman's society of sorts, a group of noblemen, adventurers, rogues, explorers and ne'er do wells, centered in the famous pub in Stormwind. The charter has changed hands many times, lost in gambling matches, sold to get rid of debt, taken over by overzealous members, no one knows the entire history. At some point in the last 30 years, it turned into more of a professional treasure hunter's organization, travelling to dangerous remote places in search of the fabulous wealth rumored to be hidden there.

About 2 years ago the guild's leader disappeared in the Isle of Dread. Just recently Nyssala, a night elf who had barely left the forest confines of her home, discovered a piece of parchment in a cavern in Darkshore, The paper proclaimed it's bearer as owner and aministrator of the Pig & Whistle Explorer's Society. Not sure what to do with this, she sent word out that old members could return and new members were welcome; and she set out to Stormwind City, where the Society began two centuries ago.

Guild Rules

The following rules are meant to help with the enjoyment of all. Please read them, and respect them. If any of them are issues for you, contact your guild officer, or Blackbraid directly.

Roleplaying

This is a guild of roleplayers, for the most part, and the server we play on is a Roleplaying server. All names of characters are expected to be within reasonable bounds for that race, per the rules of the server. Roleplaying is strictly optional, but encouraged.

It is suggested that players use the flagRSP addon, although it is not by any means required. It will allow you to add a surname and an outer description that other users of the addon will be able to see. Also, a backstory for your character is not required, but recommended to aid in your roleplaying style. As of the 1.9 update, flagRSP is an "outdated" add-on but still perfectly functional.

All /says and /yells are to be completely in character (IC), with no exceptions. Also, /guild chat is expected to be IC.

/party speak is typically a mix of out-of-character (OOC) speak and IC speak. This may change in the future as the guild's partying becomes more and more specific.

OOC speech is best kept in private tells, and in the RPGnet channel.

Officer speech will also be a mix of IC and OOC, as appropriate by the situation.

Looting Rules

All Bind on Pickup (BoP) items are to be passed on, and discussed afterward. Any roll on a Bind on Pickup item, or any taking of one without discussion and agreement from all party members, is considered EXTREMELY rude etiquette in World of Warcraft, almost to a punishable level.

All Bind on Equip (BoE) items can be rolled on as normal. Only roll Need if you are going to wear that item immediately. Roll Greed if you want it for some other purpose, including selling, disenchanting, sending to alts, saving for later use, or sending to the guild bank. Hit Pass if you don't want to bother with the item at all. If, after the roll is done, someone determines they can use it right away, the item should be given to the person; not doing so is considered quite rude.

If there are any disputes, the highest-ranking officer present, or the Group Leader if no/multiple officers are present, will make all decisions. If there is a grievance in looting etiquette, it should be brought to an Officer, or an officer of a higher rank, if an Officer is the infracting party.

Further discussion and explanation of these rules can be found in the World of Warcraft:Tips article.

Officers

Each class has a guild officer that represents their class. Officers will have invitational powers, as well as access to the officers' notes and players' notes (to add new RPGnet handles if they invite). Officers will be responsible for organizing trips into instances that the players in their respective classes need, keeping discipline in the ranks, and, if the guild gets too big for the Guild Master to handle minor issues and grievances himself, they will represent the general needs of players in their class.

All officers' alts will be promoted to World Traveler, which will be, in effect, identical to the Officer rank. The only distinction is for roleplaying, and to keep track of which class each officer represents.

At present time, all officers are selected by the Guild Master. At some future time, a more democratic process may take place, especially as more and more power is divested into the positions as the guild grows and becomes more influential.

The current officers are as follows:

Player Name	Character Name	Rank	Class
inscrutable	Blackbraid	Guild Master	Warrior
inscrutable	Rinley	Quartermaster	N/A
TRavenson	Ashiria	Officer	Paladin
J'Dai	Cryn	Officer	Warlock
craptastic	Gizbeth	Officer	Warrior
XX	Spyn	Officer	Rogue

We are currently in need of officers for Mages, Priests, Druids and Hunters.

Members

Coming Soon.

Quartermaster

The Guild Quartermaster is Rinley. A guild bank page will be created very soon. For now, please mail anything and everything that you can spare to Rinley. As a new guild, we are a very poor guild. We don't even have a tabard yet, so donations of old gear and silver and gold are definately appreciated.