Holidays 2021 Play-A-New-Character event

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Salutations all roleplayers!

As the nights grow longer and the world is closing down, fret not, for we have decided to run yet another of our "Play-A-New-Character" events during the upcoming holidays.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, this is an event where all participants roll up entirely new characters*, providing an equal start for all in an exclusively low level environment. This is both an excellent opportunity for new players to join in and quickly get involved in the shared narratives, but it is also an effective way of generating an abundance of both exhilarating, immersive and frightening gothic horror roleplay.

So come join us for some of the best online roleplay there is, while meeting up with new and old friends alike!

The event will take place from December 26th (Sunday) 2021 to January 4th (Tuesday) 2022.

Expect a number of DM events and special occurrences to appear in game during the period, but we also invite you to use our forums for pre-planning things with other players. There's a general topic for this purpose here: link

And keep an eye on this topic as we will keep updating it with more info in the coming days. with all relevant info. If you have any questions, please use this topic to post them: link

Looking forward to seeing you there,

- The Ravenloft POTM community and staff.

* (Pre-event characters can still be played, but will not be let in to the core areas, i.e. all areas west of the Svalich Pass near Castle Ravenloft. The exception is pre-event characters that have not yet entered the world, or choose to reset XP and items to the common starting point.)

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Useful info, hints and tips for the event:

- If you are entirely new to NWN, Ravenloft or the concept of actual, true roleplay, we have a FAQ here: http://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=29190.0

- For those new to the server looking for basic info about how to actually play, get all info here: http://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=862.0

- You can create your character pre-event and still use it for the event, as long as the character hasn't passed through the intro-cutscene.

- If you've created a character before the event and have passed through the intro-cutscene with it, there will be ordinances available that allows converting pre-played characters to be eligible for taking part in the event. This however entails loosing all acquired items and XP.

- Remember that while finding people to revive a friend or the sufficient gold to have an NPC do it will be hard during the event, the XP loss of using the shaft of light in the Near Ethereal to restore you to life is very small at lower levels.

- All pre-existing characters have their starting points relocated to points outside the zone of the event if logging in while it's running. If you would like to avoid this, simply refrain from logging on to that character during the event.

- Rentals will be extended by two weeks to accommodate those with rentals.

Special Rules for the event

- Players that prior to the event own characters that are members of a faction is allowed to make a new character for the event that starts out as a member of this faction. The exception to this rule is characters of the Ba'al Verzi, the Dawnslayers, the Van Ritchen Society and the Fraternity of Shadows factions.

- Players that prior to the event own a AMPC or MPC character can make new characters for the event that start out as AMPC. They will have a maximum lifespan of the event.

- Players that do not prior to the event own an AMPC or MPC character but wish to make one for the event can apply for that on the usual AMPC terms. We will however be more lenient toward accepting such AMPCs compared to usual.

- Players who do not want to take part in the event but rather roleplay their existing characters outside the zone of the event is allowed to, but have to make up their own IC reasoning as to why they ended up outside the zone.

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In order to keep the event from being overrun with AMPCs for the NCE, we are placing a limit of twelve openings; the first twelve that are approved will be featured in the NCE, the others submitted that are approved will likely have to wait until after. As an aside, please try to get your applications in within a week before NCE starts on the 26th of December; meaning, you will want to submit yours before the 19th of December.

Please do not forget to refresh your rentals in Dementlieu and Barovia before the event starts if you have them!

[Soren / Zarathustra217]

The Play-A-New-Character event has now begun!

We encourage you all to not only consider this as an opportunity to experience some excellent gothic horror roleplay, but also as an occasion to form new alliances and friendships, both IC and OOC - in part for the sake of your characters' own survival, but also to strengthen our community as whole.

Additionally, we hope to welcome many new players for this event as well as many returning old - especially this time around where the Enhanced Edition has just been launched. Please do your part to make sure these people feel welcome and allow them to easily become a part of things. Some may be unfamiliar to how things work, so have patience and help them figure it out.

And as always, strive to hone the fact that this server is about gothic horror roleplay. We expect that the circumstances of the event will quite naturally lead to it in abundance, but please help us preserving and furthering that atmosphere in your roleplay, and take your part in building and enhancing it too.

Looking forward to meeting you in game. Now let the roleplay begin!