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CHARACTER CREATION

Welcome to the first step in creating a character to interact in the XPG universe. There's only a few notes to get you on the right track.

Players are allowed a total ofthree (3) active characters at any one time on XPG. A player may have one (1) Feature or Cannon Character (FC or CC), and two (2) Original Character (OC). A player may choose to havethree FCs, or two FCs and one OC, but not two/three OCs. Your first character must be a FC. There is only one exception to this rule; As Marvel has notoriously few gay characters, XPG will allow a gay/lesbian player to make a gay/lesbian OC as their first character or revise an FC as being gay if a reasonable argument can be presented.

Original Characters in XPG are characters that do not exist elsewhere. This includes characters created and in use on other sites. We have seen players bring in characters that they use elsewhere and have pre-conceived notions about. Those notions don't always work elsewhere. To avoid such problems it has been decided that XPG prefers their OCs to be completely original to our game. If you believe you can adapt an Original Character to XPG, discuss it with the Moderator and see if the app will be allowed. If you choose to ignore this request and submit an OC in use elsewhere, and it is discovered (the site does extensive automated searches every day so it will be discovered), the OC will be removed and you will be banned.

XPG is based in the Marvel Movie-verse at the end of X2: X-Men United, excluding the last ten minutes of the movie. On XPG, we assume that Jean Grey (Psyche) was intelligent enough to get in to the X-Jet, then move it rather then standing outside and drowing. Please keep this in mind when developing a character's background.

As we are based in the Movie universe, we are not using supernatural or alien backgrounds. As you create your background, please keep that in mind. Longshot was reimagined in the Movie Universe with a new background as a mutant.

If you are interested in a certain character, look at the Cerebra files before creating an app. There is an available section showing already completed bios of characters that are up for grabs. Non-aligned, allies, and rivals listed in Cerebra are NPCs and not currently available for play.

Restricted powers - If you do want to try and bring an original into the game, we do have a few restricted power sets that will get the application deleted without a review:

The following overused powers are currently on XPGs restricted list:
Telepathy
Telekinsis
Shapeshifting
Probability alteration
Precognition
Matter creation and alteration
Healing others
Empathy
Animal metamorphs

For a list of available powers, skills and other resources with which are available to build your character on XPG, please explore the links below.

Advantages • Disadvantages • Equipment • Natures • Powers • Skills • Resources

Any character that too closely duplicates those already in play will be refused. Yes, mutants are diverse and powers will duplicate but what's the fun in playing a clone of another existing character?