Just a brief response to address number 2, since I'm still swamped.
Your character has to be approved before you can be awarded any experience. Your DM can choose to award XP whenever they see fit, as long as it's not too ridiculous. Thus, usually a DM will simply avoid awarding any experience until all of the players are approved. If, say, you take three months to get approved, your DM may get impatient and give an XP award, that you would miss out on. But I've never seen that happen, and I can't imagine it happening without some more serious problem that would probably get you kicked out before that.
So, practically speaking, it's nothing to worry about.
Ok, that makes sense. Another possible way around: is there any rule for L4W stating that when a DM awards XP it must be equally rewarded to all players? If there isn't, could the DM just "bank" what XP you would get, then when you're approved give you (and only you) an XP award equal to what you missed?
But yes, with the speed most PbP games go, adventuring for a few weeks or even a month of real time without approval likely wouldn't make you miss out on any XP.
I suppose there's no reason a DM couldn't award xp to some players but not others, if he or she wanted. I'd probably want to discuss it with a judge first, if I were a DM considering that.
Thought I'd mention again that I'm interested in helping with character approvals. I know all of the judges are very busy, but I'll wait until at least one of you gives me the go-ahead - I don't feel comfortable "self-authorizing" myself. (That and I don't really have any sort of list of characters who have actually been submitted for approval )
Thought I'd mention again that I'm interested in helping with character approvals. I know all of the judges are very busy, but I'll wait until at least one of you gives me the go-ahead - I don't feel comfortable "self-authorizing" myself. (That and I don't really have any sort of list of characters who have actually been submitted for approval )
Certainly, always happy to have another hand help out!
I'll update the "status mail" we have going on what needs to be done, and send it to the email you submitted your PC from. Cov, how do you set up so that Sessadore have auto-forwarded submissions?
You have to log in to the judge email account and add a filter that forwards messages whose subject contains "L4W Character" to the appropriate email address. There are a couple of filters like that already for the other trial character judges.
I use firefox (or chrome, increasingly) for my normal browsing, so I keep IE logged in as the judge account both here and in gmail. Makes it easier to do stuff like this and editing the approved character list.
Hehe. Actually, I don't think it's ever been stated explicitly, so: no reviewing your own character, whoever you are. Not that I think this was unclear to anyone, but it's worth having on the record.
You have to log in to the judge email account and add a filter that forwards messages whose subject contains "L4W Character" to the appropriate email address.
Alright, think I got it right.
Lord Sessadore, please check your email to see if you got the character submission I just forwarded to the judge email to test the filter.
Hmm, another question on procedure. If there is a character who has been reviewed by 2 people already, but they stated changes that need to be made and so withheld approval, do we usually have those same 2 people wait for the changes and approve?
Hmm, another question on procedure. If there is a character who has been reviewed by 2 people already, but they stated changes that need to be made and so withheld approval, do we usually have those same 2 people wait for the changes and approve?
If the corrections are made and the comments addressed, I don't see why the original reviewer would have to be the final approver. So yeah, if the problems are fixed (and you don't find anymore), you can give an approval.
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I could use an approval. Both Covaithe and Lord Sessadore have reviewed me and I made the changes they recommended. L4W:PC:Les Ghentel (Dawn Raven - ENWiki)
I could use an approval. Both Covaithe and Lord Sessadore have reviewed me and I made the changes they recommended. L4W:PC:Les Ghentel (Dawn Raven - ENWiki)
Honestly I'm not sure on the procedure in your case, Dawn, since your character has already been approved by two reviewers... It's probably better if it is re-reviewed by one of them.
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I could use an approval. Both Covaithe and Lord Sessadore have reviewed me and I made the changes they recommended. L4W:PC:Les Ghentel (Dawn Raven - ENWiki)
It doesn't have to be me that checks things again after the changes I asked for, but it does need to be another full judge, since your other approval is from a trial judge.
I'd like to be able to promise that I'll get to this quickly, but I think I'd be lying if I did.
Hah! Time is of no essence. Les is not even in a game yet. Simply sitting around staring blank-faced at other adventurers and wondering what to do next.
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