The OC Q&A

Ehm, I have a question. I'm waiting to get approved and the council told me to talk to Cassiopeia as my Bio involved her. But the thing is we don't have a Cass, I know we are getting one, I talked to Swain about this but if it occurs at a later time.

What should I do if my bio involves a champion that doesn't have a RPer?

That is dealt with in a case by case basis. Some relationships can be allowed without a current roleplayer and others cannot.

Our Rune policy is that you contact an Admin or the council directly about it. We are keeping what runes we have and don't have a secret because runes are a restricted knowledge in our world. IC, most summoners don't know what rune does what or if it is a rune and not a random scribble, thus most people know of runes, but wouldn't know one if they saw it.

Question: what's the stance on werewolves as an OC, ones that have some control over changing between their human and hybrid forms, but have no choice when it comes to shifting during a full moon?

Mmkay, in order.

The council had a quick internal conversation about werewolves and we've come to the conclusion that we feel they're more of the cursed type. They don't have control over it and it's hardly a good thing, because losing control is the expected outcome. Betting on not gutting your grandmother as she tries to give you milk and cookies would be long odds. The distinction here is that a shape shifter would have (through some means, be they magical or otherwise) the ability to shift freely, on command, and remain in control.

With that said, every OC is a unique case and given the right framing for the character, anything* is possible

As to our rules for character power growth, our rules are fairly simple. Whatever changes you want to make to an OC need to be PM'd to the Council. This can be any or all of Victus, the Council Account, myself. I'm certain even Anivia would be willing to pass the information along to the Council as a whole. Once that's done, it's just like the normal review process. The only rule that becomes more relevant than the rest is that the time it takes to learn new techniques, magics, what-have-you, is just as relevant in a growth scenario as it is in a fresh OC.

Talon spent most of his life and was trained by and with two blademasters, for example, plus he had natural talent on his side. Invest a month and you get a month and that does mean real time.

Finally, and this one I was actually kind of shocked we hadn't put down before, we hate numbers. No one has health, so a damage number has no statistical basis. We tell people in about 100% of cases that we don't want damage numbers, or any number that has to do with the game (mana cost, armor/magic pen, stuff like that) because no one has stats for these to remove.

I recall we once had a very brief conversation about if such a system would help the forum, but it was decided that while it adds more immediate clarity, it gets a little blocky and generic. We're here to write stories, not rub numbers against one another.

(*Anything within reason, obviously. Superman only ever goes down because of deus ex machina- I mean Kryptonite, and that's boring for a lot of people.)