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Hey, whaddup nerds. As you can see, Satoshi's made a thing. A good thing. And, I'm helping. He'll be your GM, I'll be your co-GM, and this post will be to show all y'all the OOC information you'll need:

1: The world isn't set in any continuity of YGO. Anime, manga or otherwise, this is a completely separate universe. Therefor, there's way less restrictions on what cards are plot-important and, thus, allowed to be wielded by the player characters. Still, there's a few ones we think are important to leave out;[list]
[*]The God cards, the Wicked Gods and the Sacred Beasts. These cards are gods, anti-gods and corrupted gods respectively, and we believe they were a big enough deal to be a big deal in this universe too. Deal. Big deal.
[*]Z-Arc: The Dimension Dragons are all regular cards, but their fusion has a legendary status in this world. It's unbelievably rare, and the few who hold a copy have a hard time summoning him.
[*]Exodia: Exodia and his variants are more like a collector's item in this world. The few that have it don't like to play it, preferring to use a deck more tailored to them.
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2: So uh, about dueling. I'll just give you the long and short of it: They're all scripted. Neither me nor sat want any RNG involved with the RP, and for that purpose, we have done away with deck lists and actually playing out a duel. Decks will follow certain guidelines rather than be a set list, think as how the anime decks all have a theme but keep shifting. This also means you can't actually play YGO, so instead you'll have to write up a script and write that out in RP form. We believe this is a lot less restrictive, gets across the character's play style better and makes the both of them seem competent (unless you want it to be a curbstomp). 

All duels will be in 4k life format, too, as 8k is a bit too high to effictively script with and will cause the duels to be longer than they really need to be. Also, naturally, there will be a predetermined winner for each duel. If two players duel and can't decide which character wins, the GMs will decide.

3: You will all play one of the six dorm champions of the elemental dorms while we, the GMs, will play the Xyz and Synchro dorm. So this means you all will be able to play the Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light and Dark dorms but not the Xyz and Synchro ones. Aside from your champion, however, we also expect one more thing out of each of you: 4 NPCs. These NPCs will be the 2nd best through 5th best of each of your dorms and will serve the purpose of both giving your dorm some more character as well as tailoring each dorm to the player's imaginations. With approval, of course. By the way, the five that go pro? They're the top 5 of the winning dorm, so there you go.

4: Deck guidelines, eh? You can use any non-banned card that's available in the game, TCG or OCG. We'll go with the ruling that if it's not banned on one forbidden list but it is on the other, you can still use it. As for Anime and Custom cards... both only with approval. Me and Sat don't mind anime cards if they're not on Nibelung's Treasure level of crazy, but to be sure, we'd like to have them go through us for approval. As for customs, we'll allow each player to create up to 6 with GM approval. We don't want you to completely rely on them, so limiting it to just 6 will make it so you'll only have to create one if your niche isn't filled by another already-existing card.

Also, two more things on this: Just because a character's in a certain dorm doesn't mean their deck has to adhere to that dorm's typing. Dorms are based on personality rather than decks, so while characters with FIRE decks would naturally gravitate to the Fire dorm, it doesn't mean they couldn't have an EARTH or DARK deck. You can also include any extra deck method of your choosing, except...

5: No links, no Master Rule 4, no Cyberse.