Character Creation
How to Create a Judge in City of Heroes

• How Did Get Your Skills?
• What Are You?
• Putting On The Uniform
• Which Uniform Should I Choose?
• Who Is That Judge?

How Did you Get Your Skills?
Upon hitting the "Create Character" button, the first thing you have to do is select your Origin. Mutation is actually disallowed for this group since mutants would never be allowed to become judges. The remaining choices, Technology, Natural, Science and Magic are all allowed, though Magic would need to be justified from a technical or scientific standpoint. It is allowed for more variety.

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What Are You?
Now you get to choose your skill class. All options here are permitted.

What Are Your Initial Skills?
With primary and secondary skill, all are permitted if you can justify how it came about in your backstory that you can write on your ID card. Examples of skills that would definitely need an explanation would be if you chose to fight with a battle-axe or a broadsword. The same goes for having a fiery aura, ice armor, stone armor, etc. They are allowed, but should be justified on your ID card story.

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Putting On The Uniform

If you wish to join the elite team of Mega-City One judges who are bringing the law to the citizens of Paragon City, then you must adhere to a strict dress code. No exceptions will be permitted within the group.

All judges wear the same base uniform, with the exception of PSI judges (mind powers) who do not need to wear a helmet as it can interfere with their abilities, and Med-Squad judges (healers) who have a specific uniform of their own (more information below). Below is a table listing all the selections you need to make during character creation, based on the phenotype/gender you choose.

To the right is a color table from within the Costume Creation of the game. I have added column and row headings so that the exact colors can be easily referenced in the table below. The codes are read horizontally, then vertically. As an example, the selected color in the image would be listed as (Purple 4-M).

Please note, in order to be able to correctly select the colors for your uniform, you must make sure that the "Copy Current Colors Across Entire Body" shown at the body of the color chart, is unchecked. By default it is checked and if left that way, you will be unable to color individual pieces of the costume without affecting the whole.

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Which Uniform Should I Choose?

Once you have been accepted as a new member, one of the TAC Group Leaders should instruct you on which uniform to select based upon your choices of powers. To give you a starting point though, below are some guidelines:

• Street Judge (link)
  The majority of judges will wear the full outfit, including the helmet. If you are not sure which category you fit into, go for this one.
• PSI Division (link)
  The only difference between a PSI Division uniform and a Street Judge uniform is that they usually do not wear helmets. If you have mind powers, illusion, gravity control, etc. then you are permitted to not wear a helmet.
• Med-Squad (link)
  Judges that wear the Med-Squad uniform will be considered primarily as healers. You should only wear this uniform if you are taking Empathy or if you have another way to heal/protect people and wish to be thought of primarily as a healer

An example of the different uniforms
Left to right: Psi-Div (Judge Orion), Med-Squad (Judge Tealsy) and Street Judge (Judge Perkins)