Character Generation Guidelines.

All characters for Crossroads will be built using the base character generation rules within the Revised Laws of the Wild published by White-Wolf.

Within this book there a few things which they fail to mention in regards to building your character. Also there are some things deemed necessary by the Storytellers to help keep the realism and balance of the game.

• All characters submitted for approval must do so in tandem with a character history. Under no circumstances will a character sheet even be considered without a character history. We are not asking for a short novella. All that we ask is that you talk about you characters life before his first change and any Merits, Flaws, or abnormally high Abilities or Traits. The staff reserves the right to disallow any character we feel is simply a consortium of stats.

• You are welcome to submit any character for this game, but be advised, that not all tribes are appropriate to this setting. In addition, should you wish to sumbit a non-standard type of Garou outside of the 12 basic tribes, or any other character which is not Garou, you will find the likelihood of the submitted character being accepted diminishing the further away from the norm the character's concept is. This is not to say we will give a definitive no, but it is likely

• The freebie point chart was omitted from the final printing of the Laws of the Wild. Due to this, we will define here, what the costs for each item is at character gen.
  • Traits cost 1 Freebie Point
  • Abilities cost 1 Freebie Point
  • Backgrounds cost 1 Freebie Point
  • Basic Gifts cost 3 Freebie Points
  • Rage costs 1 Freebie Point
  • Gnosis costs 2 Freebie Point
  • Willpower costs 1 Freebie Points

• The only Gifts, Merits, Flaws, etc, which can be used at base character gen, are those which are found within the Laws of the Wild book. If a player wishes to try to find and learn something which is not within this book, they will find it difficult, though not impossible. The point to be remembered is that if a non-standard Ability/Gift/Merit etc, is allowed within the game, all players will be notified before each game, and it will be posted on the web page. So if you hear of this, you can be assured that a PC has it.