| Character Creation Guidelines; MANDATORY -- CHARACTER TEMPLATE CONTAINED WITHIN | |
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| Czernobog | Mar 2 2017, 01:20 PM Post #1 |
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Best Influence.
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So you want to make a character. Great! We're here to help you out, but please take a moment to look over this guide to cover some basic points. General Guidelines At the bottom of this page, you will find the Character Template. You will have to fill this out for any character you create, and there are certain things that we need you to be sure of so that your character can be approved in the minimum amount of time. If you're new, then Guideline 1: Look at other people's characters. Before joining up, you should probably have lurked a bit, so find a handful of character applications from people you think are good writers and read their applications. tl;dr: lurk for a while before apping a character Guideline 2: We greatly prefer too much information to too little. So, get a couple of paragraphs down for each of the big sections – personality, history, and appearance. By “a paragraph” I mean that you should have several lines – preceded and followed by a blank line – on the same general subject. You want to talk about your character's family history? Great! Give us a lot of detail. But put a line break between that and the inevitable horrible tragedy that follows. tl;dr: make sure you've got enough material that someone else can understand your character, and make sure it's readable. Guideline 3: This RP takes place in a small city in Japan. Your character should have a reason for being there. This is much easier if your character is a Japanese National or other legal resident. tl;dr: No demographic is prohibited, but ethnic Japanese characters will receive less scrutiny than western characters, and if you app a North Korean character, please have a good reason. Guideline 4: No direct connections to prior canon characters, and get approval from other players before you say your character has a connection to them. Guideline 5: This is a Persona RP: your character does not have other super special powers. Moreover, you cannot be a robot, shadow, dog or other such creature. Guideline 6: There are less than 100 legal handguns in Japan outside the possession of the police. By default, your character cannot have one. If you want to change this, you must give a compelling, well-thought-out reason. tl;dr: No guns. Persona Guidelines Okay, now for your character's persona. We use an expanded elements system mixing all of the previous persona games together, meaning that the options are: Physical, Fire, Ice, Wind, Lightning, Water, Earth, Dark, Light, Gravity, Force, and Nuclear. A lot of options. Please note that we don't consider "Psychic" or "Ailment" as damage types. You can have as many Resistances as you want, but each must be balanced by a number of Weaknesses. If your character Nulls an element, then they must take two Weaknesses to balance it out, and the number goes up to three for Absorb or Reflect. You can have up to three skills from the Lower Tier-1 section of the Master Skills List to start with. This number will grow, and you will replace skills over time. The most you can have is eight skills, and you gain new skills by participating in ruins threads, combat, or significant personal development. Ask a staff member for advancement if you are interested in advancing a character, and if it's been more than a month since your last advancement, and you've been active with that character, you should be approved. If you have trouble thinking of something, field the question to the staff or the community at large and we'll help you out. But we'd really prefer it if you didn't take a persona someone else has taken. We really prefer that the persona reflect a mythological figure (including, admittedly, modern mythology such as might be found in popular culture.) Please note that you can use any arcanum for your character, but you should avoid using Fool or World unless you have staff permission. Also, do not use Arcana from outside of the Rider-Waite deck: No Jester, no Hunger/Lust, etc., and please put the name in English (Despite P5 using French -- this game is based largely on P3 & P4, which use anglophone names.) Characters without Personae Due to the nature of Rebirth as an RP site, characters without Personas are not typically allowed as player character options. This is due to the exact nature of interactions between characters that tend to occur: while Rebirth is absolutely a highly character driven site, much of our character interactions end up involving Personas and the ruins, and characters who lack Personas, as a result, will be inherently cut off from interactions with Persona-using characters. For this reason, characters who are never intended to obtain a Persona require special staff permission to be run. Before applying for your character, you must discuss with the staff your plans for your character once approved, to ensure that you will be able to run your character with the restrictions playing a Persona-less character imposes, as well as make sure that your character's plans will not cause issues within the setting itself. If you wish to play a character of this type, please either send a private message to a staff member detailing your character idea and plans, or contact a staff member in the IRC chat. Wildcard Guidelines So you wanna be a wild card? It's much more difficult to be a wild card than a single Persona user, as stated in the rules. Here, we'll lay down the guidelines for applying, and what exactly you get out of it. An important note is that you are not allowed a wild card as your first character! Only read this if you already have a regular character. What you get You get basically as many Personae as you want, but you will have to put each of them on your profile as they show up. (I.e, you have ideas for pulling out a super tiger monster of super proportions later. It doesn't need to be on your profile right away, but it needs to be there by the time your character summons them). Admins do reserve the right to reject your Personae if we think they are too powerful, or if we think your current roster is too powerful. After you're approved, please start to keep a 'compendium' of your Personae on your profile. You can have up to ten Personae equipped at a time. This way, we can keep battles a little less hectic and confusing, by making it so that we don't keep having to flip to your profile every time you change. You can change Persona once every two posts. There is a reasoning behind this. While in the games, you could exploit a boss by constantly shifting your Personae and covering your weakness, that would make for major god-modding in an RP. This way, you can't just keep switching in response to people's attacks. For example: let's just say you switched your Persona in your most recent post in order to cast a buff spell on yourself. Now everyone completes the rest of the post cycle. Your next post comes up. You cannot change Personae in this post. You have to wait for the next cycle after this one to change again. What you don't get You don't get any special leadership privileges, and neither does your character. You definitely don't get the right to god-mod. You also don't really get bragging rights, you jerk. What we expect from your profile In the rules, it says you need to make your profile really good. This does not mean however, you need to write 1,000 pages of text. Length does not equal quality. All we want is a well written history and personality. Please don't slouch on it, as lazy profiles will be rejected as wild cards, where as they might actually get passed as regular characters. You don't need to do anything special for appearance. Just type a good description or post a picture. Please have a good reason as to why your character should be a wild card. The biggest reason you might not get approved may very well lie in a shaky reason. A simple "Oh the gods smiled on him when he was little" does not cut it. It can have something to with their personality, or with their history, so you can include it in there, though if you'd like to you could possibly put brackets around that part so we can find it easier. Another option would be to put it at the bottom as a note of sorts. In the rules we also ask for an RP sample. For normal characters, you don't have to do that, but we'd like you to do it here just so we can see that you are determined to get a wild card and are putting actual effort into it. This doesn't have to be Victor Hugo quality, but don't be lazy. Staff Moderation of Character Creation Okay, last big section before the character template but this is a very important section, and is laying out the duties, responsibilities, and limits of staff involvement during character creation. Please pay attention, because this directly influences how we will behave during the process of approving and disapproving characters, and relates to what you can expect from us. During character creation, staff members may:
During character creation, staff members may not:
In short, we are leaving all of the necessary information to make a character out for you to review. It is on you to make the character, and it is on us to make sure that you can do that. However, administrating and moderating this forum is tantamount to having an additional job, and many of the members of the staff are juggling a lot of responsibilities. Please be understanding, and try to make the game fun for everybody. Character Template And now, the part you've all been waiting for!
By 'the other stickies,' we mean all the stickies in this forum. Here, have a list of clubs Weakness/Resist Policy
And here's a picture of the Taiyoutono uniforms, courtesy of our old head admin. And here's some more pictures of the Taiyoutono uniform, courtesy of the birdmin. And while we're at it, here's some pictures of the Reitaku uniform too. If you need to source your image, look here. Edited by Czernobog, Mar 4 2017, 12:50 PM.
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| Czernobog | Mar 8 2017, 10:29 AM Post #2 |
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Best Influence.
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Best Practices So, if you follow all of the guidelines above, your character should be approved. But you don't want to just succeed, do you? No, you want to succeed with style! So please take into account the following best practices to make sure that your character slots into the game easily and you have the most fun, right? So, with that in mind, I present to you our best practices for character creation:
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