Most active personas in the club are ranked PC, which stands for "Player Character". These are the main characters that posts are written about. However, there are several other categories of "Non-Player Character" (NPC):

NPC: These are characters with a walk-on role in posts - an example might be a drudge who brings a message to a Lord Holder that the Weyrwoman has arrived and would like to speak with him. They can be written about by any member of the club and do not need to have persona sheets approved. In general a post should not be centred around them if there is a PC available to play their role.

ONPC: Owned NPCs are the close friends and family members of a PC persona. This includes: parents (including foster/step parents), siblings (including foster/step siblings), children (biological, step, or fosterlings), and a current weyrmate or spouse. ONPCs (also known as Attached NPCs) can be added to the persona profile of the relevant PC using the persona profile form.

ONPCs cannot be written about by any other member without the owner's permission. ONPCs may have persona profiles, but these are not required - to create one just fill in a new persona profile form as for a PC. If a persona profile is created for an ONPC, it must be approved just as a PC's profile would.

ANPC: Adoptable NPCs can be submitted by any club member, although only the owner of the Level One persona at a location may submit ranking ANPCs for hard-to-fill positions. Once the ANPC sheet is approved by the Persona Approval Team, the sheet becomes the property of the club until a member (or lurker) chooses to adopt the persona and make him or her their own. Any abandoned personas may be slated as ANPCs.

Any member may create a PC, ONPC or ANPC character, but members must first create a PC before they begin creating adoptable personas or NPCs.

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