Post by Aerhyn Nirayn on Aug 8, 2003 23:53:55 GMT -5
I'm just going to go over some general rules that will keep you from getting in trouble with other players or board staff.
Posting Length - We'll make this one simple. Your posts must be at the very minimum five sentences in length. There is no maximum, however there is a competition for the longest posts (measured by words). You will get warnings for posts shorter than five sentences, and three or four words doesn't count as a sentence.
Cursing - Cursing is allowed. Pretty much anything is passible and if it's not then it's in the filter system set up by the admins.
Sexual Content - Alright, here's the thing. Yes, sexual relations between characters is permitted. I don't want to see any porn on the sight though, and I don't want to see just smut. If your character engages in sexual activities, then it has to have some sort of purpose in your character's life. It has to take a toll on them either emotionally or physically or something. Remember there are no spells to just get rid of pregnancy or any other consequence of this particular action.
Powerplaying
There are many types of powerplaying. The most common being...
- Controlling other people's characters in posts. (Technically even saying whether a spell hits them and how it hits them is powerplaying, but for that, depending on the spell, I'll let slide)
- Omniscent Characters. You may know everything that goes on with the board but your character doesn't! Keep this in mind! This goes right down to knowing other character's name without being introduced. Your character doesn't know everything you know, they only know what they were there to see or have been told.
- Convinence. When in peril, most likely being hunted by another character, a escape route magically appears out of nowhere and you escape easily. This may be fine for certain situations, but we've been seeing it everywhere. If you do something, tough, you have to face the music.
All of these are punishable by warnings followed by the little ban button.
Killing or Murder? - -Okay how to phrase this. Killing is allowed, Murder is not. You cannot kill other people's characters without their consent, meaning it has to be played out by killing and not murder. The only people allowed to murder are admins, and that will only happen if someone is being permanently banned.
Killing Example:
Joe posts: *stabs Bob*
Bob posts: *Bob dies*
Murder Example:
Joe posts: *stabs Bob and kills him*
-Once your character is dead, he/she is dead. They DON'T come back to life. You CAN become a ghost though.
Movement - I'd prefer it if I could follow everywhere your character goes by reading topics in order, but I'm not going to reinforce this. I do ask you not to be roleplaying in more than three threads as a single character at once. Once one thread is finished, feel free to begin in another.
Posting Length - We'll make this one simple. Your posts must be at the very minimum five sentences in length. There is no maximum, however there is a competition for the longest posts (measured by words). You will get warnings for posts shorter than five sentences, and three or four words doesn't count as a sentence.
Cursing - Cursing is allowed. Pretty much anything is passible and if it's not then it's in the filter system set up by the admins.
Sexual Content - Alright, here's the thing. Yes, sexual relations between characters is permitted. I don't want to see any porn on the sight though, and I don't want to see just smut. If your character engages in sexual activities, then it has to have some sort of purpose in your character's life. It has to take a toll on them either emotionally or physically or something. Remember there are no spells to just get rid of pregnancy or any other consequence of this particular action.
Powerplaying
There are many types of powerplaying. The most common being...
- Controlling other people's characters in posts. (Technically even saying whether a spell hits them and how it hits them is powerplaying, but for that, depending on the spell, I'll let slide)
- Omniscent Characters. You may know everything that goes on with the board but your character doesn't! Keep this in mind! This goes right down to knowing other character's name without being introduced. Your character doesn't know everything you know, they only know what they were there to see or have been told.
- Convinence. When in peril, most likely being hunted by another character, a escape route magically appears out of nowhere and you escape easily. This may be fine for certain situations, but we've been seeing it everywhere. If you do something, tough, you have to face the music.
All of these are punishable by warnings followed by the little ban button.
Killing or Murder? - -Okay how to phrase this. Killing is allowed, Murder is not. You cannot kill other people's characters without their consent, meaning it has to be played out by killing and not murder. The only people allowed to murder are admins, and that will only happen if someone is being permanently banned.
Killing Example:
Joe posts: *stabs Bob*
Bob posts: *Bob dies*
Murder Example:
Joe posts: *stabs Bob and kills him*
-Once your character is dead, he/she is dead. They DON'T come back to life. You CAN become a ghost though.
Movement - I'd prefer it if I could follow everywhere your character goes by reading topics in order, but I'm not going to reinforce this. I do ask you not to be roleplaying in more than three threads as a single character at once. Once one thread is finished, feel free to begin in another.