Pre-Liminary Round 2: Reijin's Group

[Reijin]

Custom Characters

Here's the setting: We've decided to integrate Custom Characters into the RPG. Here's your dilemna: We already have an established character base, and in a large majority of the cases, the person playing the established characters does not want to lose the character they've so handily crafted.

Each of you will create a lengthy and detailed rule page on what you believe would be the best way to incorporate a custom characters system into this site while keeping a few things in mind.

1 - The custom characters either have to be done so that the racial split does not upset the balance.

2 - The custom characters will not be able to affect the other members of the established universe or deny any of the "facts" created by our world.

3 - What penalties or bonuses would you allow someone starting with a custom character? What form of rules would you hold them under as far as character creation is concerned?

4 - How will this affect MIA? Would you abolish it (Custom Characters need no freeing really), would you lengthen the time, would you shorten it? This is not one where you just change it to how you like it, but instead only change it b/c it supports your product.

For this excercise, I'm looking for who will be able to impress me with the most innovative and yet thought provoking of answers. I want to see something that actually makes me think "Holy shit, that's the perfect answer." We've seen many various answers to these questions, and frankly, I've never been impressed with any of them.

This will be a very difficult task for you, as I have no idea what I will like, but a very good idea of what I won't like. You may extend this, if you wish, to small modifications of other parts of CDBZ such as equipment or racial abilities or even add a new system to here, as long as its entire role is in support of the primary goal: custom character rules.

This will give you an idea of what its like to create a small update that actually ends up causing other minor "patch" like changes in order to fit it in. What normally is a seemingly small task ends up being more than you'd think, in the end.

Oh, to make this even more difficult: You are to PM me your drafts of this information. I will allow each of you two drafts from which I'll respond with my various opinions or critiques on them, suggestions on direction or straight out hatred, and then you'll get the third and final chance to impress me with posting the finished product directly onto the board.

Hope you are up to it