OOC: Extradition Options

[Kiedo]

I know the standard protcol for forum based runs is generally putting up the OOC and IC around the same time, but I have some things to iron out before hand, and it gives those of you who have yet to turn in sheets, a chance to tinker a little longer (and those of you who have to make revisions).

Let me first begin by congratulating those of you who have made it in and welcome you to possibly a slightly different style of play than your used to.

I would like for everyone, to post a brief background (try to limit it to a paragraph, though for some characters this will seem like an injustice), I'd like this for book keeping purposes and for refrence by anyone who cares to look. Don't include things you wish to keep a mystery or that you feel other characters wouldn't know about your character, after a few late night drinking sessions.

As a GM who deals with new players alot (new to the system and the group), I have found the easiest way to make everything go smoothly is for everyone to introduce themselves, so post a short blurb about yourself, including your name(or if you don't feel comfortable sharing that then a nickname) and your level of roleplaying expirence. As an example of what I'm looking for I'll give you mine (I usually go clockwise around the table starting with myself, but since we have no table...).

My name is Jacob, I have been playing shadowrun since around the time third edition came out GMing most of that time. I have hosted games at the local gaming shop, and have maybe 25 campaigns and 30-40 one shot runs under my belt(including five DS runs, two of which I was a player). I have tried other roleplaying games, like big eye small mouth and D&D, but my true loyalty lies with the first one I ever picked up, Shadowrun.

I have a few questions and a few stylistic requests regaurding the run.

1. Do you want to be a pre-established group or do you want to be smaller groups (like 2's and 3's) that will be joined together for this run.

2. If you'd like to be a group, do you want to have a group leader, and have a group name (this is of course optional, and would only come into play during negotiations and things like that)

3. At what pace are you able to post? We will move at the pace of the slowest player so nobody falls behind (unless that happens to be once every two weeks and then we'll have to work something out). I myself can post a few times a day, since I'm self employed and set my own schedule.

4. I know for sure that for two of our players, this will be thier first forum based run, so I would like to ask the more expireneced forum runners in the group to help out in anyway needed, such as with forum tags and things of that nature.

5. Concerning style, I divide the forum based runs into chapters, including a prologue and epilogue, I award karma at the conclusion of each chapter, and also refresh edge then. I give bonuses for excellent roleplaying, and occasionally offer trivia questions and things like that for bonus Karma, more on that in a minute.

6. When you make a post in the IC thread please include a date/time/location stamp in yellow ([ color=yellow ] in front of the text and [ /color ] behind it, with out spaces of course). Important places and names should be bold ([ b ] name [ /b], again without spaces), thoughts and subvocal communications should be in italics ([ i ] thought [ /i ], no spaces).

7. If your character has a commlink, which is most if not all of you, tell me what mode your in and how your devices are set up, I will assume this to be the case for the rest of the run, unless otherwise noted.

8. In the run if there is something character specific, like the results of a perception test I will put the results in spoiler tags ([ spoiler ] results [ /spoiler ]), this doesn't mean you shouldn't read it if your not that character, it's just to say space.

9. Post all dice rolls in the OOC, in spoilers, and any other out of character things here. I will try my best to answer any questions promptly and resolve conflicts in a way everyone can be happy with. In the IC thread turn off your signature, if you have one.

10. And this is the most important rule, Above all else stay true to your character and have fun.

Those of you that are new to the forum based style, feel free to test any of the tags I've given you in this thread, or by PMing me with them (they work in PMs too).

And beyond that welcome to my world.