Quote:Originally posted by Reijin
I'll give you one more entry if you wish, GJ. Just make sure to let me know in advance and to be ready with any changes involved.

Quote:Name: (Keep it within racial parameters. Eg: Nameks don?t have the name Joe. Also, We don?t allow backslashes, dashes, underscores, or anything like that as part of a name.)

Race: (Pick a race, sticking to the guidelines below. Understand that if a race is filled out you can?t join as it, so don?t even try. I don?t care if you can write better than Stephen King.)

Appearance: (This is where you describe to us how your custom character looks. If I see: ?Oh, he looks like Goku? I will hunt you down and drill holes in your head. It should be ateast a 150 word paragraph detailing anything on your character. Age, weight, height, hair color, eye color, skin color, hair style, and any distinguishing marks are a must. If you fail to bring your character to life, you?ll be turned down.)

Personal History: (Let?s hear about your character?s past and how he fits into our world. Remember: he/she cannot affect anything already established by our universe. Eg: You?re not the long lost son of Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, or anything like that. This portion needs to be atleast 500 words long.)

Fighting style: (Pick a fighting style. Try to leave it to a couple words or so.)

Starting Planet: (Earth, Vegeta, or Namek)

Three Best Moves: (Pick from your favorites from the series, or make up your own. Keep in mind that any custom moves are subject to rejection by the staff.)

Roleplay Sample: (You might ask why this needs to be here if you already had to write a character background. That?s because custom characters are a privilege not given out lightly. So, show us you?re willing to put in the time and commitment to develop this character. 300 words minimum. This roleplay will be under harsher criticism than one for a featured character.)




Races: By choosing to be a custom character you?re admitting that your character wasn?t strong enough to play a role in the series. As such, you?ll take a hit to your stats; depending on how many customs have joined before you. This makes sense as there can only be so many powerful warriors from any race. All decreases stack with the decreases gotten by switching characters.

Nontransformers: Whether alien or human, these beings are more numerous than the other races. As such, custom characters are more numerous in this bracket. However, the slashes to stats remain the same. The first 3 to join will take a -25 stat hit. The next 2 to join take a -50 to each stat.

Androids: These mechanical beings are strewn throughout the DragonBall series. However, the limited number means that they are rare. Only 1 custom android will be allowed, at a -25 per stat penalty.

Changlings: These are aliens, or other creatures, that change their form as they grow more powerful. They needn?t be of Freiza?s race, but they do need to transform into different forms. The first 2 to join will enjoy a -25 stat decrease. The next 1 to join will be at a -50 decrease.

Nameks: A peaceful race that keeps to itself, it?s hard to think that any would become a warrior if they could have peace instead. Still, there are exceptions. The first 1 to join will have the -25 stat penalty, followed by the second who will take the -50.

Saiyans: The rarest species in the galaxy, and also one that most wish to join as. To control the racial balance, only 1 person will be allowed to join as a custom saiyan, with the -25 penalty.



Lastly, MIA should remain as it is. People will want these custom characters, and if the slots fill they?ll need to feel that there?s a possibility that they?ll open up again. ^_^

Quote:Although, custom characters have to be taken for granted. There are only a few ways to stop the custom character system from being overthrown, and that would be to tackle the amounts of racial requests available on the RPG and make the availability a little less then usual. This would ensure a healthy balance between the races that are available to be chosen. For example, the most rare race that is almost always forgotten would be the human race. Although there is an entire planet based solely on them, no-one ever signifies them and refers to them as the most customizable race in the entire universe. So for example, increasing the amount of custom humans and nameks available and decreasing the amount of other races for custom characters to be created, there would be a stable fixture of both races without overdoing it.

Yet another rule. The CDBZ universe is free and adaptable to almost everyone, that is because they are allowed to choose the history of their character and they are able to make their character how they want them to be. Bringing and developing a custom human character that is somehow, biologically related to Tien would screw up Tien's biography entirely and may restrict him to certain things that he wouldn't want to be tied up to. That's why you must start a history from scratch if your character is to have one at all. On that note, a custom character born into the CDBZ world musn't interlude or make any unreasonable changes to the storyline. The fact that every character on Chubbs has to play in that same universe should be enough of an incentive for you to abide by this rule, so don't rest assured that your character will be allowed to join the RPG stating he lives on a planet just left of Namek, and that it is the biggest planet in the system, so on, so forth.

As far penalties come into play, it isn't beneficial to scare people away from choosing a character they would adore to build on. A watered down penalty is a good way to make sure that they understand how important it is to choose a character of high request. If the penalty on one race, a race that isn't selected very often, was less, then it would add to the amount of members who want to join as that breed of warrior. Although members wouldn't exactly think highly of a stat deduction, there are other ways to guarantee that the amount of members for one race abbreviates from becoming overly popular.

A customized character, is completely sketched out by the creator and therefore everything about them should be original in the member's head. But as custom characters are ninenty-nine percent made up, they need something to back up that fact. Having your own image and appearance is what I mean. If Android 17 was currently taken on the roster and someone wanted to join as him, with custom character availability, they would have the chance to make an android with a bandana hanging around his neck, blue jeans and long, straight jet black hair simply because they had been denied 17 as a character. When making a custom character, it should actually be custom, and not based entirely off another character.

Transformations: Racial transformations such as transformations for Transformers would take almost twice as long to acquire. With the exception of the rare racial transformations such as Super Saiya-jin due to their already expansive time requirements. Although, if you roleplayed at high standard to gain such a technique, you would be classified to gain it at normal requirement time like the other members, but only if you roleplayed at high quality.

Capacity on amount of players per race:

Android = 0/10

Namek = 0/10

Changeling = 0/3

Saiya-jin = 0/5

Human = 0/10

Transformer = 0/5


The MIA system is a system that allows staff to keep an eye on who isn't roleplaying at the time. Characters from the show, are always in good hands unless the person whom is playing them mysteriously goes MIA, then there's a problem, because they stand at risk of losing their character for falling inactive. But with custom characters, that wouldn't be an issue, because they aren't in a position where they need to be available. So bringing in the member in-activity scheme would only plough the custom characters setting into destruction.

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