[quote=Anima]
I think I should mention something about the technology with regards to armor. Given that growth and various innovations could have potentially occurred within the rebuild, armor would no doubt look considerably different than that of the ME series. To that end, if folks would like to use armor concepts from Halo, select ones from Starcraft, and others, feel free to. If there's a considerable problem with the armor chosen, I will bring it to your attention.Hopefully this helps y'all out. I'll have my character up soon and a writing sample. If I'm asking everyone for a sample, I find it only fair that I provide one myself.
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I think I may have found the central instigator of our current predicament.

As you can see from what I quoted, I did in fact say armor concepts can be used from other titles to account for current tech development. Unfortunately, this is where the misunderstanding occurred.

When I said armor concepts of other titles could be used, I was referring strictly to appearance. Because this is a Mass Effect roleplay versus a crossover, this universe will abide by Mass Effect constraints. What this means is anything that you could do or may have witnessed in any of the Mass Effect titles are absolutely fair game. However, if folks begin to pull in abilities from other titles, then I will flat out reject it.

This isn't meant to be a downer on your creativity. As Silver said, if I'm not mistaken, this is a ME roleplay first and foremost. What I meant to say was allowing non-ME armored appearances, not non - ME abilities.

Let me also address races now. After thinking about it, I think this just presents a plethora of problems. Because of that, I'm asking everyone to use only ME races. Sorry to folks who wanted to create one, but from where I'm standing, that's too great of an undertaking to implement.

To summarize my disgusting little spiel:

Using non - ME armor for appearance sake is okay. Anything other than that is not. Going forward, please keep this in mind: if it occurred in any of the ME titles, then it's golden. If not, then it's not golden.

I hate giving speeches like this because it makes me feel like a (insert that naughty word here). If there's a problem with anything I said or any uncertainty, feel free to talk to me. As a GM, I'm here to make this a fun and enjoyable story for all. 

As I alluded to in my previous post, I will be posting a rule/expectation section on my initial post. To make this story work, everyone who is a part of this needs to abide by them to make this an enjoyable experience for all. Please look for this tomorrow. I'm moving back to uni, so I don't have time to type it up now. My sincerest apologies for that.

Okay, I think I addressed the major issues. Hopefully the phone type didn't make this too hard to read. It may have auto-corrected somewhere, but I think I gave a pretty thorough edit. Thumbs are tired...