The first round of characters is in, but these guildlines still apply to any characters that wish to join after the game start. The characters will have 100 points to start with. You can spend points on the following for your character: The Four Attributes
Yup. That's it. Only attributes can be bought initially. You may hold up to 50 points back for future expenditures, though. Like walking the pattern. If there is one, that is.... I will hold a modified auction for attributes. Each player will submit an initial bid privately to me for each the four attributes. Once I have bids from everyone, I will inform you privately of your character's current rank in the group per attribute. At that point, you may pass, or submit an additional bid for one or more characteristics with previously unspent points. On receiving everyone's response, I will again notify each player privately of their ranking. You may bid even if you passed in a previous round. This will continue until I receive a pass from everyone. Any bid is considered a commitment, as per a standard attribute auction. Each of these attributes will be split into two sub attributes once the campaign starts, with each sub attribute having the initial value of the parent attribute. Your characters have no artifacts to start with, except for what works locally within their home realm. There is no good stuff/bad stuff in my campaign, except for what you generate from your own actions. You may have a single point shadow to start with. You get this for free. You can know abilities from your native realm. However, they will not immediately map to standard Amber/Chaos powers. So you could be a powerful magician from your home realm, but you haven't learned to control magic outside your native shadow. Initial 'powers' will have no cost, and will not immediately map to anything significant. Your character knows nothing of Pattern, Logrus, Trump, Amber, the Courts, or Ygg. Your character may know about shadow (kind of like a master mage knowing about the Astral Plane). Your character may even have traveled shadow, provided you convince me with an excellent character concept. No one is from a world more advanced than the movie Blade Runner. GM caveat: no characters have children when they start. You can blend that into your background if you wish. Have some fun with your character. You can go for the ultra realistic, or you can go for high camp. I don't personally care if you want to gender bend. Men may play women and visa versa. Or... other, if you can convince me it's a viable character concept. However, I do expect all players to respect the comfort level of the people they are playing with. If you're not sure, please ask. Once the campaign starts new characters will start with 100 points, plus one half the average number of experience awarded to the other players, or the lowest amount of experience awarded to a single player minus 1, whichever is less. All powers, abilities, artifacts, etc., are acquired through game play. I will be running a partial power system. As the characters learn about various elements of the campaign I will post those elements along with their 'cost' in experience on the web site. It does not take 50 points to walk the pattern, or 45 points to assay the Logrus. If they exist... Once I have a full group of new players, I will give all players a day (or two) warning before starting the auction. Once the bidding is over, I will require each player to submit a character sheet. The following info is required:
I reserve the right to kick back or reject a concept. Nothing personal, but I do need to make sure the characters will actually fit into campaign. Each character will have a web page on my site. I will maintain the pages, but you are more than welcome to give me material for your page. Material will count as contributions. I expect experience to go up to 5 points awarded per month. Contributions will not receive 'extra' experience, but are more likely to get you up to the max experience award for the month the contribution is received. I expect the standard experience award will be about 3 points. 5 points will be for exceptional effort/character work/etc. Well, if this campaign sounds good to you, e-mail me at hmace@elfworks.com. Send me an general concept of what you might like to play, although realize it may not survive the attribute auction.
Webpage last modified: May 12, 2002
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