1) Account Details
- 1.1) Canon Characters
- You are not permitted to create canon characters. Most of those names are already registered and will be allowed to people the admins select. If you'd like one, ask. You are also not permitted to register non-canon relatives of canon characters without Admin approval. Characters in play with those names have been approved. To request Admin approval for either a canon character or canon relative, please PM either Gellert Grindelwald or Arcturus Black, if you have an account, or contact them before attempting to register the name.
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- 1.2) Character Restrictions
- Your characters will be human, unless you have prior arrangements with the admins. Non-human characters are currently capped, as are most rare wizard powers.
- Races: Anything other than 100% human
- Powers: Animagi, Metamorphmagi, Parselmouths, Legilimency, Occlumency
- Nations of Origin: None, at this time
- Backgrounds: Abusive childhoods, light-aspected characters
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- 1.3) Character Names
- Your character must have both a first and last name, with a space between them. You may not select as your character name the name of another person, or a name which violates any third party's trademark right, copyright, or other proprietary right, or which may mislead other users to believe you to be an admin, or which the admins deem at their sole discretion to be vulgar or otherwise offensive. The admins reserve the right to delete, or alter any vulgar or otherwise offensive character name.
In the short form, don't name your character "Alan Rickman", "Pepsi Cola", or "Hugh Jass".
Please also refrain from giving your character a canon last name without prior approval of the administrators. - Top
- 1.4) Registering Accounts
- We know that you probably want to get started, so here's a guide to doing just that! Don't skip any steps, and you'll probably be playing in a day or two.
- Read the Rules (which you're looking at now!) and the Setting. Look over the character application and consider what kind of character you'd like to play.
- Create a user name that is the first and last name of your character.
Examples: Isaharia Ickle, Mehetabel Prince, Martin Miggs
- Register that name and put in a valid e-mail address. You will need to retrieve the confirmation message so that the board knows you're not a spam-bot.
- Following the instructions in Apparition Licensing, fill out a character application, wait to be approved.
Until your account is approved, you may only post in the OOC forums. Posting to the rest of the forums will be disabled until that time, but you can still read them. - Read the Rules (which you're looking at now!) and the Setting. Look over the character application and consider what kind of character you'd like to play.
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- 1.5) Multiple Accounts
- Currently, each user is permitted to register more than one account. The present limit is ten (10) characters total: up to six (6) OCs and four (4) Canons. Canons, of course, can only be gotten from the Admins.
Anyone who is using a lack of PIDs or multiple PIDs to get around this will probably be caught and is likely to be banned.
If you are approaching these limits, please consider them before creating any further characters. All characters presently in play are grandfathered in under this rule, but if you have surpassed the limit, we will not approve any more accounts for you. - Top
- 1.6) Using the Account Switching System
- Account Switching is installed for people who have more than one character. It allows the player to switch between characters without having to log out and back in, and prevents the player from having to re-find the thread s/he meant to reply to. By following the simple directions below, you can set it up for your characters.
Primary Account:- Log in to the account that you want to be your primary. This will most likely be the first account you registered here.
- Go to your User Control Panel and click on the "Manage Linked Accounts" tab.
- Re-enter the password for your primary account in the box marked "Master Password."
- Then enter the username and password for the account you'd like to link in the boxes below.
- Press "Submit". You should receive a confirmation that the accounts are linked, and when you return to the Linked Accounts page, you should see the linked account both in the "Switch User" dropdown and the "Linked Accounts" list at the bottom.
Now, from any page, you should be able to switch between your accounts by way of the "Switch User" dropdown at the top of every page. - Log in to the account that you want to be your primary. This will most likely be the first account you registered here.
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