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<blockquote data-quote="L4W Facilitator" data-source="post: 4470575" data-attributes="member: 77122"><p><strong>5. Place your character in the queue</strong></p><p>It is no longer required, or even necessarily helpful to email the judges with your character submission. Instead, when you feel that your character sheet is ready for submission, insert a link to your wiki page on the <a href="http://l4w.wikia.com/wiki/Approval_Requests" target="_blank">Approval Requests</a> page, under the appropriate list (typically "Needs two reviews").</p><p> </p><p>Also please add the following to the bottom of your character sheet:</p><p>[code][[Category:L4W:Requesting Approval]][/code]<strong>6. Review Process</strong></p><p>To avoid errors two people (called character checkers), at least one of them a Senior Reviewer, will look at your sheet.</p><p> </p><p>The character checkers will review your character sheet as soon as they can, but feel free to ask for a review on the forums. </p><p><em>REMEMBER: If you've deviated from the patterns provided, or you haven't used the character summary you may find that it takes the judges a long time to get around to trying to decipher your sheet. Do consider that this is a shared world; and that you are playing with a lot of other busy people (especially DMs).</em> </p><p> </p><p><strong>7. Notice of Approval Process</strong></p><p>The character checkers will edit a section at the bottom of your character sheet, either with details of any changes that are needed, or with a comment indicating approval. When your character gains an approval, they will be moved to the appropriate list.</p><p> </p><p>Once you have two approvals your character is officially approved (provided all concerns, requests and where necessary changes, have been made). A link to your character page will be placed on the <a href="http://l4w.wikia.com/wiki/Approved_Characters" target="_blank">Approved Characters</a> page by a Senior Reviewer, and ideally they'll inform you that you've been approved.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Editing after approval</strong></p><p>You can continue to edit your character sheet after it has been approved, it's <em>your character sheet </em>after all.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">So you can make notes on details of your current status, or about your adventures, or add to your backstory but the changes will have no official effect until you level up and submit your character for approval again.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><strong>Playing before Approval</strong></p><p>You can join adventures before you are fully approved, <u><strong>provided you have received the permission of the DM running the game</strong></u>, but you cannot earn experience without having two approvals. </p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">Character Status Page</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: white">Once you've been approved, please head over to the <a href="http://l4w.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Status" target="_blank">Character Status page</a> and add your PC to the list in order to help out prospective DM's and other Players know who's out there.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong>Leveling up</strong></p><p>When you gain enough experience to level up, edit your character sheet, email the character judges again and add the following code to your character sheet. [code][[Category:L4W:Requesting Approval]][/code]The approval process is the same as for the initial character submission (i.e. <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=7-9" target="_blank">#7-9</a> ) above.</p><p> </p><p>Every time your character gains a level, you can retrain one feat, power, <em>and</em> skill. If new character options have been approved for play in L4W since your character’s last approval of submission or level-up, you may additionally retrain one new feat, power, and class feature (when selectable) from the new source(s).</p><p> </p><p>Once in your character’s career, you may do an overhaul of your character. This is a single opportunity in that character’s career to recreate all mechanical aspects of the character except for class, race, and basic character concept. The overhaul must be approved as per the normal rules for character approval, and requires DM permission if the character is involved in an adventure.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Reporting Errors</strong></p><p>If you encounter problems setting up your sheet, you can try consulting the discussion thread for <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/240705-character-template-bugs-assistance.html#post4459099" target="_blank">wiki templates</a> or <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/living-4th-edition/273129-discussion-use-google-spreadsheets-place-wiki-character-sheets.html" target="_blank">spreadsheets</a>, depending on your sheet format.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L4W Facilitator, post: 4470575, member: 77122"] [B]5. Place your character in the queue[/B] It is no longer required, or even necessarily helpful to email the judges with your character submission. Instead, when you feel that your character sheet is ready for submission, insert a link to your wiki page on the [url=http://l4w.wikia.com/wiki/Approval_Requests]Approval Requests[/url] page, under the appropriate list (typically "Needs two reviews"). Also please add the following to the bottom of your character sheet: [code][[Category:L4W:Requesting Approval]][/code][B]6. Review Process[/B] To avoid errors two people (called character checkers), at least one of them a Senior Reviewer, will look at your sheet. The character checkers will review your character sheet as soon as they can, but feel free to ask for a review on the forums. [I]REMEMBER: If you've deviated from the patterns provided, or you haven't used the character summary you may find that it takes the judges a long time to get around to trying to decipher your sheet. Do consider that this is a shared world; and that you are playing with a lot of other busy people (especially DMs).[/I] [B]7. Notice of Approval Process[/B] The character checkers will edit a section at the bottom of your character sheet, either with details of any changes that are needed, or with a comment indicating approval. When your character gains an approval, they will be moved to the appropriate list. Once you have two approvals your character is officially approved (provided all concerns, requests and where necessary changes, have been made). A link to your character page will be placed on the [url=http://l4w.wikia.com/wiki/Approved_Characters]Approved Characters[/url] page by a Senior Reviewer, and ideally they'll inform you that you've been approved. [B]Editing after approval[/B] You can continue to edit your character sheet after it has been approved, it's [I]your character sheet [/I]after all. [INDENT]So you can make notes on details of your current status, or about your adventures, or add to your backstory but the changes will have no official effect until you level up and submit your character for approval again. [/INDENT][B]Playing before Approval[/B] You can join adventures before you are fully approved, [U][B]provided you have received the permission of the DM running the game[/B][/U], but you cannot earn experience without having two approvals. [B][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]Character Status Page[/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=white]Once you've been approved, please head over to the [URL="http://l4w.wikia.com/wiki/Character_Status"]Character Status page[/URL] and add your PC to the list in order to help out prospective DM's and other Players know who's out there.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT] [B]Leveling up[/B] When you gain enough experience to level up, edit your character sheet, email the character judges again and add the following code to your character sheet. [code][[Category:L4W:Requesting Approval]][/code]The approval process is the same as for the initial character submission (i.e. [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=7-9]#7-9[/URL] ) above. Every time your character gains a level, you can retrain one feat, power, [I]and[/I] skill. If new character options have been approved for play in L4W since your character’s last approval of submission or level-up, you may additionally retrain one new feat, power, and class feature (when selectable) from the new source(s). Once in your character’s career, you may do an overhaul of your character. This is a single opportunity in that character’s career to recreate all mechanical aspects of the character except for class, race, and basic character concept. The overhaul must be approved as per the normal rules for character approval, and requires DM permission if the character is involved in an adventure. [B]Reporting Errors[/B] If you encounter problems setting up your sheet, you can try consulting the discussion thread for [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/240705-character-template-bugs-assistance.html#post4459099"]wiki templates[/URL] or [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/living-4th-edition/273129-discussion-use-google-spreadsheets-place-wiki-character-sheets.html"]spreadsheets[/URL], depending on your sheet format. [/QUOTE]
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