After discussing it with the staff, we have decided to add in a new way of expanding your characters. Equipment. This has been added in for many reasons.
1. To prevent people from saying that have stuff randomly without any indication of them ever having it. For example someone pulls out a random bag of gun power and throws it at you to make a huge explosion. Where did the bag of gunpowder come form? Well thats now stopped because if it doesn't say you have it in the equipment thread, then guess what ladies and gentlemen. You dont have it.
2. The equipment thread will allow people who want their character to have some awesome and creative weapon that can do something spectacular that they just couldnt figure out how to put in your shikai/bankai or resurrections and what not. It allows you more access to think. The equipment is just like designing kido, it will be monitored and has to be approved.
Now for the important part, you can create equipment upon your characters creation or in an RP like area that will soon be put up for you be able to put in how you designed it. Things are more likely to be accepted if we see how it is designed then if you just pull it outa nowhere. If your character uses equipment it much be in this thread otherwise it is not allowed. Even if it is posted in your application you need to post it in the equipment thread.
For the posts, post your characters name and equipment, then place down the equipment you have, what it does, what it looks like, all that good important juicy stuff and the admins will come to approve it. If you add equipment then post saying its been updated and we will come check out the new equipment. If you update your equipment after its been approved and use unapproved equipment without informing the admins about any of this, you will lose the ability to have any equipment, and if the admins see fit, may even get banned. So please dont try and cheat, and remember your equipment may be approved by one moderator and disapproved by another. But dont let that deter you it is a way of creating your people to be more powerful without the use of all these insane abilities.
There is a limit on the amount of equipment a character can have. How this limit will be deicded isn't fully worked out yet. So for now everyone has a limit of 5 pieces of equipment per character. This does not mean you have to have five pieces of equipment but that you can. Dont feel a need to think up five things when one is enough.