Seems everything interesting happens while I'm away...
As most of you probably now, I'm currently on vacation and can't really take part in the debate actively. But what people (especially
Mac 
) have said looks good and I agree with the majority of things - Tolkien themes and co-mods recommended but not obligatory, you must play five games before modding and so on. And I'm very happy you agreed on sending ordos role PMs too because it gives everybody a nice feeling of the start of game AND prevents confusion (careless player on admin thread: "hi why haven't I got a role yet?" mod: "um..." OR uninformed player: "have the roles been sent out already?" mod: "yes" everybody else: "ok, that person's an ordo and so on...)
There's one objection to the general lines of the discussion I have, though.
Why should it be the standard that the ranger can protect himself? It wasn't like that in the begininng, and it wasn't like that for the first several
years of BD werewolf, and it has just suddenly become a trend, which is something I personally dislike (and
Nogrod and
Aganzir are against it too, so you have three veteran players opposing the idea
). Gotta dash now so I won't give you more grounds for my dislike but
Aganzir feels very passionate about this so maybe she'll be back to write a novel on the topic...