Channel Play Guidelines

1) Shamus & Shaman is a Free-Form Role-Playing channel that focuses on WhiteWolf's World of Darkness Series by White Wolf, but all players from all systems and forms are welcome. We do ask that gamers from diverse systems try to compromise of difference of rules and gaming systems.

* If you are puzzled as to how to adapt a different style to our gaming, please do not hesitate to ask a channel operator, designated byt the @ symbol next to their alias, and they will give you ways to tailor you play to try and fit in. *

2) Because Shamus & Shaman believes in fair and equal gameplay, we ask that Godling players play them with fairness and practicality. We won't turn away heavily powered characters, but using them to intimidate and battle is not good gaming.

3) Shamus & Shaman, being a FFRP style channel, doesn't use dice, allows for actions and their results to work on the honor system. The style and substance of the gaming takes precedence over rules and dice. Please be flexible, and not toss around or bicker over specific rules .

* We are currently play testing new systems to assert some control over some plot lines. The use of each system is at the descression of the storyteller, therefore will change. Dice are used to assist in gaming, ask those you play with if they do, but they are optional *

4) Fighting is a natural part of some games, but Shamus & Shaman is meant to be a meeting place of peace for all kinds. Please if you cannot avoid fighting, use the stage area or the alleyway outside to resolve your fights.

5) The World of Darkness setting we use in this channel includes people unaware of the supernatural beings and forces. These "Sleepers" constitute a serious danger to White Wolf style characters, if they discover or witness characters being or performing supernatural things. Please respect that even if you are not playing within this system, many of us are, and being in a physical or other form, doing magic and its like, and things like that, will hinder, hurt, and seriously endanger the characters who are in this system. Just keep your true nature hidden.

6) Shamus & Shaman has a setting based in a small fictional modern city in California, so please think about the repercussions of large visible and violent acts, such as blowing up buildings, having war-sized firefights, and nearly any large effect of magic. This setting is a shadowy dark reflection of the world we live in now. Do something large of action, and the FBI will hunt for you, camera crews will show up, and even worse other supernatural agencies will come for your head on a silver platter.

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