PC Lottery
As many of you have heard, we may have more players interested in Crossover than we can accommodate at any given event. This is partially due to the limitations of our site, since Brantwood has beds for about 70 players. Also, we want to make sure that we have the staff, NPCs, and other resources available to entertain all of our players. I'd very much like to allow everyone interested to play, but that may not be possible.
Because of this we are capping attendance at each event initially at 55 players. This number will rise as more NPCs sign up, to a maximum of about 70.
To distribute the available player slots as fairly as possible, we're going to use a lottery system. Preregistration for the opening event will open on January 2nd, and we'll post a link to a signup form here that day. At midnight on January 8th, we'll close the form temporarily, and on the 9th we will randomly select people who have preregistered to get the available player slots. Anyone who doesn't get a slot will be placed on a wait list, the order of which will also be determined randomly. As more NPCs sign up, or if any PCs who preregistered drop out, players on the wait list will get the newly available slots, in order. PCs who preregister after the 8th will be put at the end of the waitlist if there are no available slots.
(It's important to remember that people who are put on the wait list for the first event, will not be excluded from the game entirely. We'll see that people who miss the opener get a fun introduction to the game world the first time they attend.)
To help keep things running smoothly, out of consideration for your fellow players, please preregister only if you know you can make the event, not just to "save a spot" in case you want to play. Also, if it turns out you can't attend, please let staff know as soon as possible. Players who preregister, but fail to show up with no notice, may be automatically wait-listed for future events at our discretion.
Event NPC Incentives
We'd like to encourage players who are on the wait list to NPC that event. We'll make sure that anyone who does so isn't exposed to spoilers about the ongoing story.
Players who choose to NPC an event (whether they're on the wait list or not) will get a .5 CP bonus for their Crossover character, and the opportunity to take that character into play for a couple of hours during the course of the event so that they don't have to entirely miss the game. Also, people on the wait list who NPC the event may be given available player slots if other people can't make it at the last minute. (In this case, we'll still respect the order of the wait list.)
Finally, any player who NPCs an event is will be guaranteed a PC slot at the next event they plan to attend, so that nobody has to miss multiple events in a row.