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Narrative Adherence - This game is for readers and writers, please try to catch up on posts with details you might've missed between postings as this may influence your actions or render the outcome moot. In addition, please make posts that are longer than one sentence to describe your actions and give us something to work with.
A final note here, please try to make sure that you don't post the actions of others, just your own character. In other words, never post what another character is DOING, just what you want them to do, or conditionally, what you hope and wait for them to do. This then gives them agency(
and for yourself) to do whatever it is they want their character to actually do.
2.
Courtesy - Please be courteous to the players in this game, banter is fine but as soon as someone complains to me then it becomes an ISSUE. If these issues are not resolved by the parties involved then I must make a choice. Often that will mean unceremoniously being ejected from the game. This always has ramifications on the game for everyone involved, so please also try not be too sensitive to other people's off-hand comments, anyone can make mistakes. Caveat: Absolutely no posting politics, just don't do it.
So please stick with this main idea:
we are all here because we want to play this game and have fun.
3.
POSTING & RATE - Please be prepared to post to this game at least a few times a week to keep things rolling. This is especially important during action. Otherwise things that should take a few days of posting turn into months of waiting on other people. If you know you will need to take some time, help me make an exit post to remove you from the game's scenes for a particular length of time.
I'll even be candid and upfront so you don't have to explain or make excuses: I don't care about the reason you aren't posting.
Of course I'll be sympathetic to your RL issues, but understand that posting is
required for pbp games. So please respect our game enough to drop in to say
"NPC me for this week" or something similar if you have stuff come up.
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3a. If I don't hear from you within 4 days(over half a week), I will take action on your behalf and you will not get experience awards from the time you are missing. It's only fair.
3b. If I do not hear from you longer than two weeks I'll put you into NPC status and you will take a backseat in the action, perhaps wounded or taking on more of a support role.
3c. If I don't hear from you within a month, I will write your character out of the game, and probably try to replace you.
All of these can be avoided if you only make sure to drop me a quick message. So please do that if you want to remain in the game.
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So quick refresher for new folks and returning old folks for posting:
Quick Note: I don't make people roll for everything they do, unless it is in combat or under some kind of duress. Consult the books to understand what your power levels can actually do for effects. You should also expect that if you have a high strength and you punch average humans,
they die (any ranked over Remarkable would do it) because you didn't say you were pulling the punch. Same goes for powers and other attacks. You can choose what rank you want to use below your own for damage.
All rolls are made using the universal table for determining success. I sometimes add modifiers and decide what color difficulty is needed beyond just a green. The dice roller is set up to default to the 1d100 we use. Reference your stat rank and find the column on the table, then add your roll to the table's left side to cross reference.
Universal Table thread:
link to a message in this game
The Format I like people to use for your posts typically posted at the bottom of your post for clarity, any color should stand out from the rest for easy reference:
OOC: [Put your roll here] State your intended action and rank. [optional: list your result color]
4. Finally, although not really a Rule, I would encourage you all to ham up the drama, as I will be basing much of my awarded karma for well played characters, with realistic personal lives. Making choices that are hard and have many possible outcomes always nets you awards for roleplaying and this sandbox should have all kinds of choices available. If you want to have your character work on something in particular for their own personal story, private message me with your ideas and we can spin out some yarn in that direction.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:48, Fri 22 Jan 2021.