Mortal New Player Quick Start
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Welcome to World of Darkness: Gotham's Mortal: The Riven New Player Quick Start. This article is designed to help new members of the World of Darkness: Gotham MMORPG community to find their way quickly around the site and the wiki so that they can get right into the game with as little hassle as possible.
Below you will find a step-by-step guide along with tips from the Storytellers 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.
- Read through the Mortal Character Creation Guidelines and start thinking about a concept for your character.
- Identify your play style and consider your availability and set reasonable expectations. Take care to consider character concepts that require a level of upkeep that matches your availability. If you know you can only play once or twice a month, pick something that will be manageable. The Mortal venue accommodates advanced players as well as beginners, it's a great choice for people just starting out in WoD or who have limited free time to RP.
- If you want to play a kinfolk (WtA), acolyte (MtA), or ghoul (VtM) please refer to the appropriate venue. Mortals will not be allowed to switch venue until after at least 6 months of play.
- If you are considering a character who is a member of the Law Enforcement community, use the Law Enforcement Character Creation Guidelines instead.
- If you are completely new to Classic World of Darkness and have never created a character before, see Vampire the Masquerade: Player's Guide, Revised Edition (White Wolf Product Code WW2305) for a complete guide on creating mortal characters. See Vampire: the Masquerade Revised Edition (White Wolf Product Code WW2300) for information on character traits. Mortals do not have their own book.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 may or may not include links, tips, and other information.
- 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 worth a look 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.
- 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 Mortal characters who tend to have a lot of integration with mortal society. Concepts that rely on alternate identities or lead double lives will also find the reading particularly useful. 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.
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