• Character Creation
• Progression
• Wages
• Incentives

Welcome to ADBZ! In order to get started, you’re going to first need to pick a character.

You can pick from any available canon characters or create a custom one. Reference this page to see if the character you want is taken or not. You can also ask around on discord. You should register for an account and then request for your account to be approved in the #staff-requests section on discord. Once you have an account, post your Join Form in this forum. Note that the join form contains three separate posts, one for your character info, one for your inventory, and one for keeping track of your experience.

The Race you pick is probably the most significant choice you'll make at character creation. Each race has an identity that defines what they are good or bad at. You can adjust this within your first month. After that, you'll have to use game mechanics to change your race.

Your inventory should be empty at this point, so you don't have to worry about filling it out.

You start off with 1000 experience points which you can spend on improving your stats and skills, among other things. You don’t have to spend any experience at this point if you don’t want to, but we have a handful of example beginner character builds for you to look at. With the amount of experience you've been given, you should be able to start on par with a weaker Z-warrior from the saiyan saga while still having plenty of experience to spend once you become familiar with our systems.

Note that Canon Characters start with 100 in each stat on top of the 1000 experience that you get to distribute. The tradeoff is that you are expected to be more active (posting at least once every couple weeks) and to play their personalities somewhat accurately. Nothing is wrong with playing an evil Goku, but playing him as a tech genius cyborg is questionable. Canon characters are slated to recieve other benefits as well, down the road.

You don't have to fill out the Personality, Appearance, History, or Extra sections at this time, if you don't want to.

After you are approved, a staff member will move your sheet to another forum. From this point on, you can spend your xp as you see fit, just make sure to keep it up to date.

You’re allowed to redistribute your experience at any time during your first month of play, so don’t feel the need to think too hard about how to spend your points. You’ll want to read over our Skill Tree and Stat systems at some point to get a better idea of what you want to build.

You accumulate more experience by roleplaying. Writing will always be the primary means of progressing your character. You can write solo or with others. Writing with other people is more rewarding in terms of experience. Some skills require collaborative roleplay in order to unlock, so you are further incentivized to interact with others.

Where you write matters. There are various sectors to explore, each with their own cluster of planets. There are various benefits and drawbacks to each sector, but I won’t touch on those at this time as new players can roleplay in any sector during their first month. All you really need to know is that travelling within a sector is fast and cheap (for example, Earth to Namek). Travelling between sectors is something you can only do once per real life month.

You are allowed to roleplay with anyone in your sector on any planet within that sector. You can still roleplay with people in other sectors, but those are Telepathic Threads which take place in a dream-like reality in which anything can happen. These roleplays still give you experience, but do not count towards any mechanics that require thread counts. They are also not canon – nothing you do in Telepathic Threads affects reality.

By now you should be ready to start writing, so feel free to start or join a thread. You should aim to write at least 1500 words in a thread, although the minimum is 450 for solos and 750 + 3 posts each for collabs. Rewards cap out at 3000 words per thread which comes out to 20 xp in a solo or 30 xp in a collaborative thread. If you are writing more than this then you should break your story into separate threads.

Completed threads must be submitted for Canonization in order for you to claim rewards. This is so that staff have a general idea of what's going on in your thread and can verify that it doesn't break the setting. At worst your thread may need edits or might be impossible to canonize, but you will still get rewarded for the words that you wrote.

After you write your story, you will be given experience for your efforts. Additionally, you will now be able to claim wages which you can use to buy essentials such as senzu beans, advanced weaponry, etc. located on the Items Page. You claim wages once per season (3 months) by posting in the wage claim thread for the current season. Any wages that you do not spend are LOST at the end of the season, so it is important that you actually spend your money. If there’s nothing in particular that you want, you should purchase Condesed Ki which is the primary crafting ingredient in this game. You will find a use for this item one way or another, or will be able to sell it to a player that needs it.

Since wages expire, some things can only be purchased with a group effort or a build that focuses on generating money. The cheapest way to increase your income would be to use a skill point to join an alliance, organization, or business.

Here at ADBZ, we like to incentivize consistent activity. There are regularly events that boost the experience you earn if certain milestones are met. There are also seasonal objectives that players can meet to earn extra rewards.