Character & Pic Inheritance Rules

We've been getting the occasional occurrence where someone wants to take a character from a member that has now become inactive.. Or, in some cases, where a member is willing to hand over ownership of one of their characters to someone else. So we felt it was a good time to lay down some ground rules on such things:


Taking someone else's pics
Generally we already allow people to use the same pics as another member's character (or preferably the same character model in a different pic), as long as you seek permission from the member that held the character originally.

If you wish to use the pic of a character but the member who owns her has become inactive, please ask a mod for permission before hand


Handing off characters & taking characters from an inactive member
The important distinction to make here is that you would be taking on the history, personality and previous matches/RPs they had. It is actually a lot of work to ensure you are playing a character true to how a previous member played her.

You need permission from the person that originally owned the character (obviously). If that member has become inactive (no longer posting on the forum) then their characters can not be taken for a period of 1-2 years after they became inactive (we may make allowances, this is only a guide line so if you have a character you want to adopt please ask).

In either case you must also ask a mod if you can do so (even if you have direct permission from the owner of the character). In addition, if the character was included in extensive previous RPs, permission will have to be granted by any player that had important storylines with said character (thus giving members a say before one of their favoured rival characters is taken by someone else).