Rattannah Rules for his games.

1. Third Person, Past Tense Please.
2. No explicit Sex
3. please play only one card at a time. You may play two cards at once occasionally if it doesn’t become common. You may never play all 3 at once however.
4. I am blind and will not provide art for what I do. I don’t require art of my players, though I do expect them to write out descriptions of characters and actions over the course of the game, whether they have art or not.
5. If you have trouble getting a card of yours to fit a scene, I offer mind-melds in which I will suggest something for each of your named cards, though in most cases I offer no help for wild cards.
6. I have a strong idea for most of my stories so please follow the instructions on challenge outcomes closely.
7. If you go for a month without posting, or you cut it close 3 times, I reserve the right to kick the player if I so choose.
8. swearing is okay, but less is more.
9. I am LBGTQ friendly in my games and allow such characters. However, in advance I warn you that due to lack of exposure on my part, I may use gendered pronouns by mistake for a non-bianary character, though I will try not to do so and will correct if possible if it is pointed out to me.
10. player conflict is welcome in a game, but it must not reach the level of complete sabotage, in my games all characters are more or less on the same side, though they can disagree and vary widely in worldview.
11. If a player is getting upset at character conflict, pull back, even if it isn’t being honest to your character. Player comfort is more important than character realism on this front.
12. If you are triggered, please notify me and the group as soon as this happens. It is not my intention to make anyone uncomfortable beyond the typical suspense of a story. I never want it to become too real or harsh for you but I can’t fix my problems unless I know about them.
13. You may make minor moves with other player characters, for example, you can have them ask simple questions like “What is that over there?” or “Where are you going?” to faciliatate your character’s moves. You may also have them do minor things to help you out for example: writing them fighting if a battle has already broken out, having them open a door or help you move something that they have no obvious reason not to help you with, and the like.
14. You may not however, dictate large parts of another player’s character’s history, and major revelations of new information about the character without the creator’s permission are not allowed.
15. NPCs created by players are semi-public property, with more control resting in the hands of the creator and narrator. However, unless there is a strong reason, players cannot monopolize their own NPCs and things like other characters talking to them or meeting them in public situations and contexts are to be allowed.
16. In my games, creating custom cards is encouraged at both character creation and later in the game.
17. I encourage cardless moves, but if they are played in the context of a challenge, you must not make significant progress at completing the goal in either direction unless you play a card as well.
18. I would prefer that racial, ethnic, sexist, and other forms of prejudicial slurs not be used in my games or be used very sparingly in games with a historical context for them. For example, a game in the 1920s might allow for the use of the word “Cripple.” For a handicapped person, but it would be inappropriate in a modern setting because it is considered vulgar.
19. do not assume the sexual orientations of fellow characters, though with my permission you may choose the sexuality of NPCs unless it conflicts with something I need for the story.
20. please get with me if you choose to leave the game so we can get an exit for your character. Leaving is fine but it can be disruptive for those who remain. Please tell me if you want to leave so we can do something that will not shock the game so much when you leave.

1. all characters should be original characters. Any character from the DC comics universe submitted as a character will be flat-denied.

2. we are not worried about canonical Batman and a basic idea of Batman and certain major characters is all that is required, something you could get from watching a couple movies or a coupel episodes of any cartoon version is enough. I will probably most closely follow a “Batman: The animated series” vibe to it though the setting is darker and Gotham is in a worse state. the next few rules below can help define some stuff that needs defining.

3. Harley Quinn is still evil and generally with the Joker.

4. The Riddler and Penguin are solidly villains, but Batman tolerates their lesser crimes as they both often work as informants of much larger threats.
5. The Riddler is Sane. and not as violent as many other villains except to his targets and those who take a direct part in stopping him. I am using the “Edward Nashton” secret Identity name for him rather than “Edward Nygma”.

6. sane criminals go to Blackgate prison. Only insane criminals go to Arkham Assylum.

7. Catwoman is morally ambiguous but has not yet solidly joined any heroic teams like the Justice Lague. She is a thief but tends to ally with heroes against city-wide threats. though a villain, Penguin and the Riddler are much the same.

8. Poison Ivy’s hypno-pollen works on all genders and is more of a mind-control agent than a love drug
9. The Current Batgirl is Cassandra Kane, not Barbara Gordon who has been Oracle for several years now.
10. Dick Gracin is currently nightwing, Tim Drake is Robin.
11. The rest of the DC Universe exists, but I’d prefer we keep mostly to the Batman Mythos in this story.
12. You are to create a member of the UCS, which is sort of a super-hero branch of the GCPD.
13. Metahuman powers are okay, but you should still be vulnerable to normal weapons and attacks. Use Batman metahuman villains as a benchmark if you need to, you should be weaker than them. uses of technology, magic, and so on should follow the same rules.
14. You might have a codename similar to a superhero, but your real name is public knowledge and most people refer to you by your real name, though your membership on the UCS might not be public knowledge.
15. Any relationships you have with existing DC Comics characters are as an ally or a foe and should be professional. You cannot be Batgirl’s best friend, Talia Al’ghoul’s former lover, or anything like that. You probably have fought a supervillain at least once or been at the site of a major crime or worked loosely with on eof the heroes of the city but you know no major characters on a personal level. your relationships are professional. You probably know the real names of supervillains who have been arrested before, but you probably don’t know the secret identities of any of the heroes who don’t publicly fight crime with their real names.
16. I keep invitations opened up for 2-week blocks until I have enough submissions. Then I pick the characters that I prefer for the story all at once.