Game/Rules

Game-Wide House Rules & Character Policies

Character Age

Your character must be, look, and in all ways act 18+. You may not mention that your character 'looks underage', state or imply your character is childlike or underage mentally. This is grounds for immediate banning.

Professional Training

We do not use the Professional Training merit.

Prosthetics

Using a prosthetic allows you to temporarily replace the condition with the rules of the prosthetic. It does not relieve the condition per se, but replaces one set of rules with another. Your character then reverts to the condition once they are no longer wearing the prosthetic.

Sexual Assault

Sexual assault in backgrounds is permissible; that is an unfortunate reality and also can be a part of CtL theme. This must happen off-camera. Mentioning that your character was assaulted at seventeen = okay. Writing it out in detail so staff has to read it when I review your background = WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, don't.

Sexual assault committed by STs in a plotline, or by PCs on either NPCs or other PCs, regardless of OOC consent, is grounds for immediately being permanently banned from From Dusk Till Jawn.

It's one thing if you want to, say, hunt rapists for sport outside a bar at close, but no actual assault can occur as part of RP in any way, including plots, on-screen Durances, etc.

Shared Merits

Any group may take shared mundane merits (Resources, Contacts, Allies, Safe Place, etc.) even if their core book does not specify that they are able to do so, with the following restrictions:

• The group has three or more members.
• The group has a linking merit such as Mystery Cult or Hobbyist Clique, or a sphere-specific family group such as a coterie.
• Only members who possess the above merit(s) or are in the group and have contributed to the merit in question can directly access it.
• For groups who natively are able to share merits, the contribution rule applies, too. If Bob, Clarice and Alice are in a motley, and Bob and Clarice have both purchased Resources 2 and declared it shared, and Alice has purchased no Resources or has decided not to share her Resources (see below), then only Bob and Clarice can purchase things directly with the shared Resources. Bob can, however, buy a car for Alice and give it to her.
• The group has a single shared Resources pool for purchases; when that Resources pool is spent for the month, it's spent for everyone. You don't get to make 3 Resources 5 purchases if you have a group of 3 with Resources that add up to 5. Once the merit is shared, the Resources pool is treated the same way as if it was a Resources pool for an individual, e.g. the group has one pool totaling the number of dots that they have; the individuals no longer have separate Resources pools.
• Regardless of the number of members, shared merits cannot ever go above 5 in effect unless specifically written in the book that it can go above 5. This may mean in a group of six or more, that some members do not have access to the shared Resources pool. You may purchase dots above five for access purposes only, that is, if you have seven people in a group, and each has Resources 1 (shared), you still only have Resources 5, but everyone has access to it directly. Members may choose to maintain their own Resources or if joining an existing group, may choose to invoke Sanctity of Merits and use those dots for something else, or may keep dots for access purposes.
• Example: Seven Changelings, each with Resources 2, create a motley. They may choose to split their Resources pool, having 1 (shared) and 1 (mine), or Sanctity that second dot, or keep it, but that would honestly be a waste.
• An existing group may have only one shared Resources pool. You cannot have ten members and have two Resources 5 (shared) pools.
• Characters may choose to share some, all, or none of their share-able merits. It is up to a character to determine, when the group is formed or when stats are purchased, whether that stat is shared. You may change your mind later. Staff may decline to let you change your mind a bunch if you keep saying 'yes it's shared,' 'no it isn't.'
• The obvious exception to this is things like Safe Place, Hollow, etc. If Bob buys Hollow dots for the Shiny Things Hollow, and Alice also buys dots for the Shiny Things Hollow, those are shared by default, since they're for the same physical location.

Status & Mantle

These stats are limmited to 3 at character creation.

Status Actions

We have a system in place for using your status to effect change within the game. You can read about it here.