When applying to play an original character from a published tabletop RPG setting, how closely does one need to adhere to the official setting?
I'm considering applying to play a character from a New World of Darkness campaign, but I'm facing the decision of whether to keep her in that specific setting or rewrite her into a more generic urban fantasy setting (which I do also still depends on how things develop as I write a more detailed version of her backstory, but I'd like to know your stance on it). It's complicated by the fact that Snowblind's existing WoD characters are from the classic version, and it's my understanding that NWoD represents a significant setting/lore shift.
I'm still familiarizing myself with the relevant lore, but my suspicion is that the GM who started the campaign from which my werewolf hails probably made some tweaks to the setting to suit the story he wanted to tell. Would my character need to be fully compliant with the NWoD setting as published in order to be applied as a NWoD character? If instead I chose to change her setting of origin and apply her as a purely original character, would it be acceptable to write her into a setting that shares similarities with NWoD, or would I need to change the setting entirely?
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I'm considering applying to play a character from a New World of Darkness campaign, but I'm facing the decision of whether to keep her in that specific setting or rewrite her into a more generic urban fantasy setting (which I do also still depends on how things develop as I write a more detailed version of her backstory, but I'd like to know your stance on it). It's complicated by the fact that Snowblind's existing WoD characters are from the classic version, and it's my understanding that NWoD represents a significant setting/lore shift.
I'm still familiarizing myself with the relevant lore, but my suspicion is that the GM who started the campaign from which my werewolf hails probably made some tweaks to the setting to suit the story he wanted to tell. Would my character need to be fully compliant with the NWoD setting as published in order to be applied as a NWoD character? If instead I chose to change her setting of origin and apply her as a purely original character, would it be acceptable to write her into a setting that shares similarities with NWoD, or would I need to change the setting entirely?