Experience

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Introduction

Character on Antarok earn Experience for various tasks undertaken by their author. Experience is spent on Skills, Merits, Arcana, and CNPCs.

Solo

A story written by oneself. Minimum 450 words total to submit for review and earn XP from them. On Antarok, there is no pressure to collaborate with others, and you may write by yourself for as long as you wish. 150 words written solo is worth 1 XP, up to 1500 words for 10 XP.

Collaborative

A story written with others. Each participant must write a minimum of two posts, the minimum word count being 150 words per post, and they must each reach 450 words total to earn XP in a review. 100 words collaborative is worth 1 XP, up to 1500 words for 15 XP. Threads in roleplay boards without the Solo or OOC tags are assumed to be collaborative.

Review

On Antarok, writing is writing. When you finish your story, you can reply to your post with a summary and how much XP you earned based on your word count. Then, submit it for Canonization so that we can verify if what you wrote believably happened.

Skills & Merits

• XP is earned from Solo or Collaborative threads and spent on Merits or progressing Skills and Arcana.
• Player characters begin with 250 experience that may be allocated freely towards Skills, Arcana, and Minor Merits.
• Players from forums with a similar XP system as Antarok may transfer up to 1,000 bonus Rebirth XP.
• 'Starting Package' XP is spent by subtracting an amount from the 'Skill Ledger' located on your Character Sheet.
• Add any bonus XP from your chosen race, but this cannot cause a skill to exceed 250 XP.
• Minor Merits cost 0 XP, plus 25 XP for each Minor Merit purchased before it.
• Merited skills may begin play at 0 XP - Novice.

Skill Values

00/250 XP: Novice Skill

25/250 XP: Apprentice Skill

50/250 XP: Journeyman Skill

100/250 XP: Expert

250/250 XP: Master Skill

Compounding Merit Costs

00 XP: First Minor Merit

25 XP: Second Minor Merit

50 XP: Third Minor Merit

75 XP: Fourth Minor Merit

100 XP: Fifth Minor Merit

Examples: Purchasing an Apprentice skill would be represented as having a 25 out of 250 XP in that skill, and you would be left with 225 XP. Your first Minor Merit is free, your second costs 25 XP, and your third costs 50 XP. If you wish to begin with an Arcana, then you will need to expend a Minor Merit worth of XP to buy it. This means any character can usually - if not Reborn - only afford up to 5 forms of Arcana aside from Theorems and, if a Ghost, Syphon.

Bonus Catch-Up Experience

If you have earned less than 1,000 XP from the Rebirth system, then you may earn double experience from Solo and Collaborative Thread XP, or Development Reward XP. This bonus experience must be tracked on separates line in your Experience Ledger, tallying up the amount in the name. Example: 10 Bonus Experience (10) then 15 Bonus Experience (25) should you earn 15 XP more for a total of 25 Bonus XP.

Bonus XP is a system shared across all of your accounts - you should never exceed 1,000 XP in total across all of your characters. You are free to add this amount in retroactively if you forget, just make sure it goes in your experience ledger right below its source.

Occasionally, events orchestrated by our community will award Catch-Up Experience for achieving specific goals.

Experience Ledger Example
Source                Change  Total
Rebirth Exp       (50) | 50 | 50
10 Thread 1            | 10 | 60
10 Thread 1 Bonus (60) | 10 | 70
15 Thread 2            | 15 | 85
15 Thread 2 Bonus (75) | 15 | 100

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