How to participate in PF, part 5: Tips for starting a guild.
1-What is your guild about? Be sure you can answer that question in 1 simple sentence, like "research magic artifacts" or "support a certain official character" or "run a library for children."
2-Create a guild sheet introducing your guild. Here is a very good example:
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Here's what this example does correctly:
*It describes the guild and membership requirements very well.
*The guild theme is very simple and straight forward.
*The artist provided detailed references for guild uniforms and a high quality image of the guild crest. Uniforms aren't required, plenty of the best guilds don't have them!
3-Make sure you have all the tags right, including a guild-specific tag. I'll do a run down on the tags when the event starts. Please wait!
4-Post updates on what you plan to do every chapter. Are you going to invade an enemy during chapter 1? Or defend against an aggressor?
5-Drive your guild's story! Make another guild your rival or just show some slices of guild life.
6-Communicate with your members! This might be hard if there's a language barrier, but participants create their own private forums or twitter accounts, doing whatever they can to discuss guild stuff.
7-Have fun! There's a lot of pressure to go crazy and do elaborate uniforms, logos, specialized character sheets, etc, but try not to stress.