Switching Positions

If you don't like the character that the game set you up with, you have two choices for switching within a week of the time you enter the game. You may do one of two things:

1. You may request a switch to a specific unplayed position within your nationality [French, English, Other]. This maintains the balance between the 'sides', and helps assure that the more interesting and important positions remain in play. Or...

2. You may request a switch to another 'side' [such as if you got French, but really really wanted to be English]. If you do this you will be randomly assigned to a position of that nationality, no specific choices. This keeps the element of random assignment in play while allowing people to play the nationality they want if they have an insistence on one side or the other. This is 'rerolling', in effect, but being able to choose your nationality.

Either of these options may be exercised within seven days of the time you were first assigned your character. We have easy reference to the list of people who have been in the game less than 7 days.

After seven days in the game [enough time to see what you've got and if you'd like to play it] you cannot switch.

You can always 'quit' a position midgame by not playing it for 21 days and letting it go inactive, in which case you just reregister as usual and take the luck of the draw again.

The only exception to this is players who wish to quit [OOC] a Royal spot, but continue to play the game. We will accommodate this as players sometimes quit Royal spots for OOC reasons [it's a heck of a lot of work, for one thing] and it is important that we have the Royals being actively played [so we can't make them wait 3 weeks to go inactive]. Players who drop out of playing a Royal spot OOC will be assigned randomly to another position within their country. [Once again this prohibits 'Ill quit and become French' tactics.] The former Royal player can also switch positions with another player of their side who is taking over the Royal spot (as that player is likely to have a well developed position.)

Remember that the only reason we allow position switching at all [except in Bedlam] is to make sure people get set up in something they are going to have fun playing. We think these rules will achieve that purpose while keeping the intended random nature of assignments in play.