Now that the main app info is up...
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m_legacies_oocHere's the one for support characters:
1. Talk to the person you're looking at making a support type for to make sure they like the idea and want that char around.
2. Do not overshadow the main hero. Sometimes support can do things the main char cannot, but they shouldn't outclass them. If this were a comic, remember whose name is on the front cover.
3. Don't expect people to play your support ahead of their main, or in overall team plots.
4. Despite #3, if you wish to, and its appropriate, support chars are often welcome in plots.
5. Work up a profile for that character too, like you did your main.
6. Check with mods. Provided you've followed rules 1-5, no other application should really be necessary. If I'm wrong, it may eventually grow in that direction... but for right now, getting the sidekicks, love interests, adventuring crews, etc. of an approved hero is intentionally pretty easy - we want to encourage people to play them, and in doing so, help flesh out those other heroes.
1. Talk to the person you're looking at making a support type for to make sure they like the idea and want that char around.
2. Do not overshadow the main hero. Sometimes support can do things the main char cannot, but they shouldn't outclass them. If this were a comic, remember whose name is on the front cover.
3. Don't expect people to play your support ahead of their main, or in overall team plots.
4. Despite #3, if you wish to, and its appropriate, support chars are often welcome in plots.
5. Work up a profile for that character too, like you did your main.
6. Check with mods. Provided you've followed rules 1-5, no other application should really be necessary. If I'm wrong, it may eventually grow in that direction... but for right now, getting the sidekicks, love interests, adventuring crews, etc. of an approved hero is intentionally pretty easy - we want to encourage people to play them, and in doing so, help flesh out those other heroes.
