Mage/Approval Procedures
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These are the approval procedures for the Changeling sphere on From Dusk Till Jawn.
Background Review
- It is permissible for a background to be as short as a handful of bullet points as long as the following items are covered:
- Where the character was born and grew up
- Awakening Details:
- How old was you character when they Awakened?
- What did your character enjoy most out of the experience? Think big.
- What did your character enjoy least out of the experience? Think big.
- What lesson did your character take away from the experience? Think big.
- How does that experience guide your character now, beyond the obvious? Think big.
- How did the character join their Order? Is it the first Order they joined?
- Are any Imbued Items or Grimoires explained?
- Justification is not required per se, but we need to know where the items come from.
- Did the character inherit the item, create it, etc.?
- What do you do for your Order, or why don't you currently belong to one?
- Want ties to NPCs? Talk to staff! This is encouraged.
- If you want to have Order, Assembly, or Consilium status higher than 1, please explain what services you performed to merit this increase.
- You may not enter play with a position within the Consilium. Those will all be earned ICly.
- You may be a newcomer or a longtime resident - please read up on the Lesser Convocation of the Northeast to read about the Martyr's Tree's sister consilii.
- You may only start with a Status 1 or Status 2 position in your order. All other positions must be worked for ICly. No one Order Status is without a position/job/expectations in their Order.
- If you have Inferior Arcana higher than 2 or Common Arcana at 5 at character creation, please state which sphere NPC or approved PC taught you.
Sheet Review
- Order, Assembly, and Consilium Status are capped at 2.
- Purchase of Inferior Arcana higher than 2 or Common Arcana at 5 at character creation if the character will have been taught these Arcana by a sphere NPC or approved player's character.
- Check the math on the sheet.
- Don't forget that mastering common arcana and becoming a disciple or better in an inferior arcana costs extra XP!
- 2.0 has flat costs.
- Check Willpower, Defense, Wisdom, Speed, and other derived traits. Now check them again. Did you check them again? Are you sure you did? Better check again.
- Review any Imbued Items and Grimoires
- Equipment must follow our posted guidelines and the rules in the 2.0 rulebooks.
- All Custom Imbued Items (unless direct Conflict of Interest) must be approved by DadHoc
- Review mundane equipment
- All custom mundane items (unless direct CoI) must be reviewed by DadHoc. Use the custom item guide for prelim review.
Finishing Steps
- A basic wiki is mandatory for approval.
- Must have:
- Your shadow name in your infobox.
- A description for your Long Term and Immediate Nimbus.
- Your full title as Recognized by the Consilium. (Examples can be found on the NPC pages.)
- Name (whatever name or names other characters will call them)
- Order (and dots of Status)
- Consilium or Assembly Membership (and dots of Status)
- Categories set for Order, Path, and Legacy, so the page populates in all the right places
- Please make sure they haven't copied the template from the NPC page -- that's only used for NPCs.
- Any easily-seen/understood/noticeable merits/effects (Rigid Mask, Gentrified Bearing, etc. -- if you can see its effects when you look at a character or if they affect most/all interactions, it should be on the wiki. We don't need someone's Resources 5 on there, but we DO need stuff that other characters will easily notice.)
- Brief description of Mask, Mien, and Mantle
- 3 RP Hooks. They don't have to be much, but they should be SOMETHING for other players to say 'ahha, we can RP together because you sometimes hang out at Bob's Bar/you're from New York and I was once there'
- Order position.
- If someone is playing an Apostate or Unnamed, please make sure they are aware that they will have an uphill climb and a lack of IC resources to depend upon.
- Once the sheet is ready, make a copy of the sheet to the FDTJ Google account
- Make sure you've reviewed the Beat Tracker help file with the player
- Set the 'approved' role on the Discord