Research Process

The Research Process

As per this post on the MoA Forums:

All Research should be recorded here.

One active research topic per character is permitted. If you are abandoning or setting aside current research, please note so in the old thread before beginning another. This thread will then be locked in favor of your new research thread. All journals must have your character's name clearly noted in the title of the journal that is visible from the forum. For example:

• Timmy's Research [Timmy Lightweave]
• A study in abjuration [Alena Moonsorrow]
• Leeya's Light [Jeremy Jengins]

All information should be in-character, or noted otherwise if it is necessary. You cannot post in another person's topic without permission, which should be clearly noted ahead of time if such permission is given.

Please focus on the in-character aspects of research, and how your character is developing with it. You may end up with a result very different than what was originally intended, so try not to force the research into a specific feat or spell that you know exists. (You can, of course, use such ideas as a framework to begin with).

Only new spells and feats, or new aspects of them, can be researched. You cannot research a free feat already available to be taken in game - although you can record your progress achieving those aspects within your character journal if you so wish, before taking those feats or spells on level up.

Research can also be geographic in nature. As the title of this forum states it, "Research and Exploration", a character can decide to explore an uncharted region of Eramere. That's one reason as to why the Overland is so large.

To proceed, a character must demonstrate that he is gathering the resources necessary to perform an exploration. I will not give any example of how to do so, but imagine the American continent was mostly unexplored and you was living on the east coast. How exactly would you travel/explore the western coast? How exactly is up to each player.

Once a DM judges the character has gathered enough resources to explore a new region, an "exploration" event will be made in which the character might or might not discover something new entirely.

The mapping team will not release any new areas unless they have been discovered by players doing exploration.