Character Building

I just want to start and say that I'm really happy that you guys are going to participate in this big story we're all going to make together! To start I just want to remind you guys that this is a **Political Intrigue** game with heavy **Mystery** and **Problem Solving** elements. Just letting you know so you don't make your character really good at dungeon crawling when we won't be doing a lot of that.

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### Themes

* Corruption
* Power
* Betrayal
* There is no good and evil

## What's Banned?

### Races

* Githyanki
* Githzerai
* Shifter (they aren’t banned but please don’t play one they’re really bad)
* Kalashtar
* Warforged
* Astral Elf
* Autognome
* Giff
* Hadozee
* Plasmoid
* Thri-kreen
* Simic Hybrid
* Vedalken
* Verdan
* Locathah
* Kender
* Deep Gnomes
* Duergar
* Eladrin
* Drow
* Fairy
* Harengon
* Satyr
* Shadar-Kai
* Gnomes (don’t ask me)

### Items

Remember this is a high fantasy world. I don't want anyone asking me for a laser canon or how to invent guns.

If you asked for a really powerful weapon before and I said no, don’t ask for a different powerful weapon

### Homebrew

If you ever want to share some homebrew I’ll be happy to look at it and determine it’s validity. If you want to find some good homebrew I suggest checking out people like a pointy hat or some dnd supplement material that is made and balanced.

## Rules

### Rolling

Roll all of your stats, re-roll the lowest, and then show me. If I deem your stats to be too unbalanced (either all too high or all too low) then I will make you re-roll.

### That Random Section No One Ever Fills Out

I don’t require you to fill out alignment on your character sheets but I highly suggest you fill out the bonds, flaws, and whatever the other ones were. It’ll help you keep your character in mind and roleplay them better (because this is a heavy roleplay campaign)

## Character Before and During

### Expectations

I expect you to come to the sessions ready to play. Have spells prepared if we ended the last session with a long-rest.

Remember that characters are dynamic and not stagnant. Try and incorporate character growth but also remember that your character won’t turn from a genocidal murderer to a peace-loving monk overnight!

I need real physical goals that are achievable. An example would be that your character needs to find something or needs to talk to someone but also remember that what is going to keep your character with the party once you achieve that goal.

Your character has to have a reason to join a party and stick with them. Maybe they want friends or maybe they need help with a certain thing and need people to help.

I want a well-thought-out and planned house that follows each of the house guidelines. I also want a well-thought-out backstory that shows three things:

1. Your character’s personality
2. Your character’s past
3. How your character ended up where the first session begins (which I will release after further thought)

I also expect you to know certain things about the world. You don’t have to know the name of the current king of the Kerejaan Suya but you do need to know what religion you worship and basic facts about it.

(also please put your character’s pronouns cause if we don’t clarify them before then there can be some confusion during sessions)

### During Sessions

I don’t have many rules because most of us are familiar with each other’s play styles and I’m sure we’ll all work on creating a welcoming environment for anyone who is new to the table! Just remember:

#### Come Prepared

I shouldn’t have to ask for you to open everything but I know I will anyways but here’s the list of everything you should have opened (I’ll let everyone know if anything changes)

* Dnd beyond character sheet (if you use another software or paper I at least need an updated PDF)
* Roll20
* Have Vexara unmuted
* A document for taking notes or some other software
* You can choose to have the Wiki open but don't worry too much about it (just don't refuse to roll history checks because you can just see things on the wiki, this is so we can keep information organized!)

#### Veils and Lines

I know we haven’t used this term before but this is what we used the consent checklist for before which I won’t require everyone to retake (for like the 5th time) but I just want to remind everyone what we can do and what we can’t (including me)

* **Romance** is okay and I’m fine if you romance NPC’s but only romance other PC’s with the person’s permission
* **Sex** is a nono, we can elude to it but we are NOT acting it out. I’d hope none of you guys wanted that because that’s weird
* Do not **emotionally** or **physically abuse** other characters because that’s weird!
* **Sexism** is okay but never go too far
	+ An example of okay is having a mainly male-run world (which it is) having only male heirs
	+ An example of not okay is…rape…obviously
* Something that I will never describe in detail is **torture** and anything involving **physical restraint**. That’s weird!
* This is a political intrigue game so remember that you WILL be **manipulated** but if anything ever goes too far remember you can always message me!
* I will always talk to you about **character deaths** and I’m not the kind of person to kill off a character during battle. If that ever happens we will work out a way for revival if you really don’t want to die!

**If there is anything personal that is not okay then please let me know!**