See +HELP +TIPS for the helpfile, which explains how to turn tips on and off, and if you’d like to suggest any tips to be added, use ‘ex #2936/TIPS*’ to see what the existing tips are.

Cameo characters are intended to be fully precreated and made available specifically for MUSH newbies. They are not generally intended as permanent roles, more as a way of trying out the game. ICly they are supposed to be more minor characters, suitable for getting your feet wet with. Ideally, they should be roles that have an easy time interacting with a lot of different people, rather than relying on for example the members of a single house.

Extras are basically named NPCs specifically intended as characters that can be emitted or referenced in roleplay when you need someone fairly generic but you’d like to have a name and some details to work with. They are not intended to ever become PCs, and that way they can be used more freely. For some more information, and some suggestions that we will be adding soon, see this forum topic.

If you have any suggestions for these types of characters, feel free to submit them via +help cdb submit. When it comes to the Cameo characters, we would also love some help with CGing the ones we decide to create, so do indicate in your submissions whether you are willing to do so as well.

This means that currently logs will have to be submitted via email and Balerion and I will have to add them. Given this, there’s a limit to the volume of logs we can handle, and delays will happen. However, now that we have caught up with the backlog of logs, we’ll try to stay as current as possible.

So, if you are sitting on any logs that you want to show off on the site for whatever reason, please consider preparing them according to the instructions on the log page and sending them in to us. If you log a lot and have hundreds of logs to select from, pick some favourites now and then. 

In order to build up a small selection of Cameo characters, we will need some help, both with concept suggestions and CGing. If you are interested, let us know. Keep in mind that these concepts should be for characters that can interact with the majority of the playerbase (that is, with noble characters) and they should ideally be characters that are in King’s Landing more or less permanently so that players can easily slip in and out of these roles. The idea is that players should stay in these roles for a very limited time period, perhaps a month or two at most.

Players may start requesting these characters right off, though actually processing the requests may take us a little while since we need add in some more alt-checks in various place. Finally, we will note that the policy we have decided on is that alt information will be publicly available via +finger.