These are the official rules of the site, and they have been posted here for reference. The breaking of these rule or any rules will result in temporary or permanent ban (from the discord and/or the site.)
Any person or persons who violate the rules directly will be innocent until proven guilty. Judgement will not and shall not be passed upon any member, or members of this site until they have appealed their case to the Moderators of your particular RP section fairly and with equal time. If the disagreement cannot be solved or the accused feels the judgement is not right or fair, they may appeal to the admins The final decision of discipline up the Admins, but everyone is allowed to defend themselves.
If you are NOT given this right, PM or Email me or any of the Admins
By signing up for this site and by reading these rules, you have given us your consent that you understand the rules of this site and will abide by them, and that your results for breaking these rules are at the discretion of the Moderators and Admins after all sides have been heard and all of the evidence and stories have been considered and discussed properly by all Moderators and Admins.
All decisions on disciplinary actions are final, but may or may not be changed depending on the actions (good or bad) of any said person who has been sentenced.
These rules listed below may ALSO be subject to change at the discretion of the Admins and necessity but notifications will be given aptly before any permanent changes are made.
Also, anyone caught with a minor offense will not face discipline and will be let off with a warning (depending on the severity of the action and the amount of evidence against them. All of this is considered and at the discretion of the Moderators.) Be warned, too many warnings can result in disciplinary actions
OOC (Out of Character) Rules
1. No member, AT ANY TIME, should be found posting sexual, harmful, shameful, hurtful, offensive or spam-related content, pictures, videos, links or otherwise. Any one found in possession of these will be disciplined. Posting these is banned throughout the forum and includes areas such as the following:
i. Boards/Forums
ii. Discord
iii. Links
ix. PMs
2. No member, at ANY TIME will advertise their own or any other site on the discord server or forum posts EXCEPT for the General Chat section. Advertisements may ONLY be posted there. Anyone who is caught advertising on the chat box or any other forums other than the General Chat will Recieve a warning.
3. No member, at ANY TIME will participate in or start ANY fights or flame wars within the forums OR the chat box. The occasional disagreement and argument is acceptable, but a full out war IS NOT. Those found in violation of this rule will face loss of privileges or otherwise.
4. No member, at ANY TIME will threaten another member or Admin of this forum with bodily harm or harm to their belongings or anything else. Anyone who threatens to physically injure ANY member of this forum will face severe discipline. We do not accept violence or extortion on this site, and those who DO NOT abide by these rules WILL BE DISCIPLINED.
5. No member, at ANY TIME will threaten to hack or actually hack a member of this site or this forum. ANYONE who is caught threatening to hack this forum or a member of this site or caught in the act WILL BE REPORTED TO THE POLICE. There is a ZERO TOLERANCE policy to hacking on this site. DO NOT HACK.
6. No member or members at ANY TIME will bully another member. Bullying includes threatening of bodily harm, mentally abusing both through the act of threatening or by doing, performing slanderous acts against another person, etc. Anyone caught in violation of this rule may face temporary banning or worse.
7. No member will spam the forum, chat box, PM inbox or any other part of this forum with ANYTHING at ANYTIME. Doing so will result in instant banning and/or loss of privileges for a permanent or temporary amount of time.
8. No member at ANYTIME should have possession of two or more accounts. Multiple accounts are illegal, and are not accepted. If you have NO REASON to make another account, DO NOT make it. DO NOT make them for fun, DO NOT make them for more characters, and DO NOT make them to get past a banning. You will be banned for life if you do.
9. No member at ANYTIME should slander or slam another person behind their back. This is considered defamation of character, and is a felony under the court of law. You can be sued for this by whoever you do this to, and you WILL be banned from chat or even the site if you do this. DO NOT defame another person's character behind their back. If you have a problem with them, say it to their face, and politely.
10. No member at ANYTIME will impersonate any other member of the site or a member of the staff. Anyone who pretends to be another user or staff member will be permanently banned. NO EXCEPTIONS.
11. No debates. That means in the matters of religion, politics, or any other matters of the type. This is not a site where you debate on current issues or who is right and wrong. This is a site where you roleplay and have fun. We all have different opinions and trust us you will not sway other people by posting something in discord. It just causes problems for the admins/mods and makes everyone angry. If a debate gets out of hand then said members will be spoken with and judgement will be decided by the admins present.
12. Regular members shall not tell a Staff member what course of action they should take. It is a staff's job to deal with the situation, not yours, your opinion is fine Bit don't give us orders. DO NOT tell administrators or admins what to do in these sorts of situations. Staff members do not appreciate being told what to do as if we cannot do our own jobs.
13. Your Discord nickname and your forum name, must match at all times. this is so if disciplinary actions need to be enacted, the admins and mods know who to enact these actions upon.
In Character Rules
1. No member or members at any time will Godmod while Roleplaying. The act of Godmodding is in essence when someone’s character has the ability to do practically anything without limits or boundaries and when they simply cannot be harmed by any and all means other RP-ers try. Examples of Godmodding are, but are not limited to:
-Killing or injuring a character without the player's express permission.
-When they simply can’t be hit and dodge all attacks or anything for this matter aimed at them.
-It can also be using other characters that other people RP with. In other words, if you do not RP as Legolas, then you cannot have Legolas say anything, or do anything, without the player's expressed permission.
The worst form of God Modding is when they make another character out to be what they’re not, just to make their own character seem superior. They make others seem weak, screaming for help, when they’ve made it quite clear about their advantages and strengths. This is called power-play. It’s a strain of God-Modding, but instead of just being irritating, it’s offensive to boot.
As a result, anyone who is caught in violation of this God Modding or Power-playing rule will face temporary or permanent banning and/or (but not limited to) loss of privileges.
2. No member at any time will be caught twinking. Twinking is an offense to other Roleplayers. Twinking is defined below:
Definition: Twinking is defined as when one character forces an action on another character without their explicit permission. This can be thoughts, emotions, or even physical attacks/responses.
Anyone who is caught in violation of this rule will face temporary or permanent banning and/or (but not limited to) loss of privileges. If you are attacking another player, use dice rolls to determine success. roll a d20 and appropriate damage die in a separate post posted after your action post to attack and before your action post to defend. this makes it fair.
3. All members must use Novel form while Rping. Meaning that everything is to be written in third person. If you do not do so, you will be reminded until you do. Also, all members must use proper grammar in all posts. Please do not type your entries using netspeak, leetspeak or any other speak besides Proper English. Netspeak is okay for OOC, but it doesn't belong in roleplaying. Any user who does not comply will be sent to the RP School, will get warnings or will be reminded to do so. (None of these will affect your record negatively.) To do OOC speech, place what you are saying in{ }.
4. Every, and all members MUST stick to the current plot of the forum. Always try to follow the current plot as much as you can. When in doubt, check the plot development thread. There are no penalties for breaking this rule, though warnings may be given at discretion.
5. Interaction is a key part of roleplaying. Make sure you base your posts on large amounts of character interaction. If you do not speak/interact with another character, it is likely that they will not want to do the same to you and you'll be stuck roleplaying with yourself.
6. Please observe rational time and logical character input into threads. You cannot go from Omashu to the Southern Water Tribe in just two posts within a half hour. Use common sense; use a time skip or montage post to show significant travel.
7. Please try and make posts consist of writing other than just dialogue. If need be, post what your character is thinking. Posts consisting of only dialogue quickly turn into something resembling instant messenger.
8. All members MUST age up there characters according to time-skips in the plot. If the plot advances ten years your character must also age 10 years. Your character is a part of this RP world, and if the world moves ahead, your character must too. As part of your post, a date must be placed, so as to keep track of when the event is happening in case a time skip happens in the middle of your story and you cannot jump ahead. all dates are AG (After Genocide, refering to the attack on the air nomads that started the hundred year war.)
9. You cannot simply enter a topic unless it is posted as OPEN or OPEN TO ALL in the topic title. If the topic says CLOSED or PRIVATE or OPEN TO [Insert Username Here] then you cannot enter the topic, UNLESS you have the permission of one of the Rpers. ALL TOPICS MUST STATE IF THEY ARE OPEN OR PRIVATE! Topics labeled as FINISHED or LOCKED or DONE CANNOT and WILL NOT be entered by any other user, as the topic is done, and cannot be posted in.
10. All eighteen plus topics are allowed, but must be explicitly advertised as 18+ in the title so that younger members don't stumble in by accident.
Character Creation Rules
1. All members MUST make their character applications well detailed and fully filled out. We want to know about your character, and it helps with writing about your character in future posts.
2. No member are allowed to create all-powerful characters. Doing so falls under God Modding and shall be disciplined and treated as such. Also, do not create Avatars or Royalty when there already are some. If you wish to create a royalty character or Avatar, please refer to the
Royals, Avatars, Nobles topic to see the availability of that position and if that position is open then apply for that position in the proper manner mentioned within that post. Failure to comply to that will be treated as breach of rules and will be disciplined at Admin’s discretion.
3. No member may Roleplay with any characters that HAVE NOT been approved or have been rejected from approval. Any and all characters DO NOT EXIST before their acceptance by an Moderator or Admin. Once they are approved you can Roleplay, but not before then. Anyone who breaks this rule will face temporary or permanent ban and loss of privileges.
4. No member shall create a character that is COMPLETE rip off of a copyrighted character. For example, you CANNOT create Batman by using his entire picture, personality, history and name. HOWEVER, you CAN use the picture of Batman to create a character, and may draw off of PARTS of the personality and history, but not all. Furthermore the parts taken cannot outweigh the parts that you bring to the character, otherwise that is copyright infringement. Names cannot be taken from copyrighted characters under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. This will result in loss of privileges, ranks and characters.
Administrator and Moderator Rules
1. No Admin Moderator will abuse the power they have been given. Any admin who abuses their power for their own benefit, i.e.: needlessly and unrightfully banning innocent people and members from the site and Discord, removing privileges where they do not need to be removed, etc. Any Admin or Moderator who is found breaking this rule will have their powers removed immediately and they may be permanently banned from this site upon a vote by the Admins, no exceptions
2. No Admin or Moderator will approve their own characters. If an Admin or Moderator wish to have another character approved, they must ask another Admin or Moderator to approve their application for them.
3. All Admins MUST have the approval of both other Admin before they ban someone else from the site. No one can be banned without a 2/3rd vote by the Admins, of which there will always be 3.
4. All staff members MUST obey the orders of superior staff members. If you directly and deliberately disobey the requests or orders of superior staff, you WILL loose their powers and will loose privileges.
