Werewolf New Player Quick Start
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Below you will find a step-by-step guide along with tips from the STs to help you get on your way. So let's start!
Quick Start Steps
- Read our ST Disclaimer and decide if this chat is for you first and foremost.
- Edition and metaplot information. See: Edition and Metaplot
- Register your account with the World of Darkness: Gotham community. This account will automatically register with the website, chat, wiki, and forums. Only one account per individual is allowed.
- Identify your play style and consider your availability and set reasonable expectations. Running a Garou character and developing it takes a bit of a commitment when compared to less intensive venues like Category: Vampire. Because of the renown system and the necessity of packing with other players, it can be quite demanding. Therefore we do not recommend the venue to Casual players with the exception of those seeking to play Kinfolk.
- Read through the Werewolf Character Creation Guidelines and start thinking about a concept for your character. If you think your concept is at all skirting the edge of our creation rules, feel free to Poke a ST before you start creation and run the idea by the staff.
- If you are considering a kinfolk, make sure that you have a player to play your character's True Born family member first and read the following articles: Kinfolk and Kinfolk Character Creation
- If you are considering a kinfolk, make sure that you have a player to play your character's True Born family member first and read the following articles: Kinfolk and Kinfolk Character Creation
- Take a look at the PC Census and see if some of the concepts on your mind aren't already covered or just don't fit within World of Darkness: Gotham's scope.
- Note that at this point you are actually inside the World of Darkness: Gotham wiki and you are looking at a page within it. You can see the different menu items in the sidebar on the left. Take a moment to expand the different menu items to get an idea of some of the major sections of our wiki. Note that there is a search box as well. These will be key tools for you as you move forward. The wiki is designed as the Player's Guide for the community and anything in it supersedes the books. It's a very large wiki. You're not expected to know everything in it. You just should know how to get around so that you know how to look things up and get the information you need.
- Since you're already in the wiki (and presumably logged in), look up where the coffee cup is. See the little menu across the top? Click on the wiki preferences link and take a moment to set up your wiki preferences (Or you can just click the link I provided for you here in this step. Heh.). In those preferences there's one thing that you want to make extra sure is selected. Go to the edit tab and make sure that the toolbar is enabled. The rest of the stuff you can browse through and set up how you like. You can return to the preferences at any time to change up how you experience the wiki.
- Once you have a concept in mind, you are ready to begin Creating Your Character. While you're entering this phase please review the bullet list directly below:
- Understand that this chronicle is set in the most influential and powerful city on the planet with the most densely populated urban areas in the whole United States. So naturally the chronicle is an urban chronicle told from the perspective of urban Garou. It will be completely different from anything that you may have experienced before in a normal WtA game set in a traditional sept.
- Also, the setting is updated to reflect advances in technology and attitudes about sustainability and the green economy. Hence, urbans are thriving compared to their rural counterparts who are not only dwindling in number but also lacking in their ability to affect meaningful change among humans.
- We do not follow the metaplot and so all the crap about the Stargazers leaving and the big bad Anthelios in the sky and everything going to shit is just not happening in World of Darkness: Gotham.
- This is a game where there is an emphasis on actually role playing a werewolf. We are extremely strict about players adhering to the fact that their characters RP out all aspects of their Garou characters including their primal sides. Incoming players must be willing to explore those levels of character to be successful in this game. Please take a moment to review the Werewolf Commentaries section of the wiki and pay special attention to Garou 101. They will give you a bit of a taste of the game's flavor so you can decide for yourself if it's the right game for you.
- If you are planning on creating a kinfolk, your character concept and your history should be worked out with the player of the Garou to whom your character is related prior to you submitting a character to the Storytellers for sanctioning.
- RESTRICTED CHARACTERS NOTE: Players seeking to play restricted characters should Poke a ST to talk over their character with the team.
- Understand that this chronicle is set in the most influential and powerful city on the planet with the most densely populated urban areas in the whole United States. So naturally the chronicle is an urban chronicle told from the perspective of urban Garou. It will be completely different from anything that you may have experienced before in a normal WtA game set in a traditional sept.
- You will notice that our character sheets are quite expanded. This additional information helps STs understand your character so that they can ST your character without a lot of back and forth checking and rechecking of facts. However, it may be tough to sit down and write it all in one go, so you can at any time submit your character sheet to save it in the Character Dossier and come back to it later by clicking on the Character Dossier link in the main Website.
- When you are creating your character history remember your audience. You are creating a history and that audience is comprised of the ST and you. The only reason you write one at all is to make it a matter of record what you intend to play. We don't particularly LIKE reading them. These histories should convey your character's main idea. If you are playing a werewolf then draw us a picture with words about a werewolf. That means not spending a bunch of paragraphs on his life as a human and a short epilogue of being a werewolf (if metis talk about being human, they can just make a homid). All that tells me is that you have no idea what you're doing or how to make a werewolf.
- Once you have finished creating your character, create a sanctioning ticket. This is how STs will know that you are done with your character sheet and ready for them to review and accept it. You can expect a response time within 24 hours. As with new player proposals, we put a priority on your sanctioning tickets.
- You can track the ST's progress in sanctioning your character at any time through the Character Dossier link in the main Website and then click the appropriate tab to view your open tickets. This is the way the ST will engage you to request any changes or clarifications to your character sheet.
- After all your changes are made and the ST has accepted your character sheet, the ST will provide you with any appropriate starting information and instructions. This will include links such as WtA Player Handouts and other info.
- Then the ST will close the ticket.
- All characters will be marked as Sanctioned in the database at this point. Players need to totally log out of the website and log back in to see the change in the chat.
- With your character done and sanctioned, you can go to the CHAT LINK ON THE MAIN WEBSITE and select your character from the drop down list, then you will log on to the chat with that character. You are now ready to RP.
- If you're new to chatting or just plain new to WoDG, having a look at the How To... is worthwhile so that you can learn about how to use specific tools like the Dice Roller.
- IMPORTANT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION: To advance a character you must learn how to use our Character Dossier with respects to managing your character after sanctioning. Please review: Character Development and Experience articles.
- IMPORTANT COMMUNITY GUIDELINES: Now that you are part of the community, it's probably a good idea to familiarize yourself with our Chronicle Policies.
Optional Additional Steps
Questions?
If you still have questions after reading the wiki, place a post in the Poke a ST forum and the ST team will have a look. Please do not FPM.
- Take a look at the Players' Portal.
- Review how to use Player Pages.
- Review how to write wiki pages.
- Use the knowledge you acquired from the reading to create a Character Profile in the Character Profiles section of the Players' Portal and refer to the Wiki Cheat Sheet if you need hints on wiki mark up.
- If you suck at wiki, or need additional help you can refer to our Tips and Tricks Technical Forums and either beg someone to set up the page for you, or ask for help getting your page started.
Note: This is all optional, but as a segment of our sanctioning process we will create a Character Profile page for every player character as it's part of our internal Storyteller Character Development procedures. If you don't create a Character Profile, the page will just be left blank.
Character Creation Tips
- Take a quick look over the House Rules area of the wiki. Any changes there might impact the way you want to spend your points.
- Garou 101 is an article the STs have put together for both veteran and players new to WtA. It's worth a read for all.
- We use Secondary Abilities and so that might be worth a look to see how we run them when figuring out how you want to set up your character.
- Some expansions have been made to Backgrounds that might be different from what you are normally used to. This can have a big impact on some Garou character concepts who tend to have a lot of layers of Kinfolk and alternate identities to act as a buffer between them and humanity. In order to set your character up in the smartest and most strategically effective way, you will want to look this area of the wiki over thoroughly.
- If you are thinking about taking Pure Breed please read the Pure Breed article first.
- Werewolf Systems is likely worth a quick look during the Character Creation phase as there are some modifications that may impact your decisions on how you want to spend your points.
- While there pay close attention to the Urban Social Adjustments and Urban Umbra Systems articles.
- Taking a look at how Gifts stack up against other venues is also important so I will recommend taking a good look at the Crossover Rules.
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