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Forum and RP Rules
Topic Started: Jun 24 2014, 05:50 PM (16 Views)
BurningBright
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Please read this thread in its entirety, as it contains rules that apply to functioning within the site. Not adhering to the following rules can result in adverse consequences, up to and including being banned from certain sections or from the site entirely.

Application


1. Please do not double post in your various applications. If your thread has not seen activity in three days, you may make a post to draw attention to it. Otherwise, use the Edit function if you need to add more information to a post.

2. Follow all rules that apply to each individual section. In most cases, you may divert from the exact format of the provided templates, but all information the templates ask for must be provided in a clearly visible, concise manner.

3. All users may critique in applications-this is how we identify potential new staff members. However, please ensure that you are reasonably comfortable with the rules before critiquing. Please be respectful and courteous in all instances to both normal users and the staff.

4. You may create as many as 5 characters, whether they're benders or not. It may be possible to earn more character slots, but please, get a feel for how many you can actively RP at once before creating all five.

5. You may create a special ability for your character of the appropriate rank as soon as that character is approved. You may create a new special ability at any time you wish, and may create as many as you wish, but only one at a time per character. There is no limit to the amount of special abilities your character may have, but each character may only learn one additional special ability per month.

6. Weapons can be created at any time, in any quantity, but please take it easy-there are a limited number of staff. Unlike Special Abilities, a weapon can be created simultaneously with a character, but the character the weapon is intended for MUST be either approved, in the Creations Section already, or applied for within a day of the weapon.

Role-Playing Rules


God-Moding - This is controlling aspects of the game that you have no legal control over. An example would be claiming that lightning struck the opponent right before he reached you, or claiming that a random burst of wind threw the opponent's arrow off right before they struck you despite taking no action that allow you to make this happen. Controlling your opponent's actions without an ability that could reasonably allow you to do so also would apply. You may choose the time of day and weather conditions when you make a thread, but only IF you are the one who made the thread. If not specified, it is assumed to be daytime, with partly cloudy weather. This may also apply to suddenly being able to do something skillfully with little effort that there is no indication or reason for you to be capable of. For instance, being able to suddenly ski down a mountain on a tree trunk when your character has lived on a tropical island their whole life, or having never seen a tiger-horse before and being able to perfectly ride it an hour after first laying eyes on one. God-moding will be harshly punished. You have two warnings; a third attempt at God-moding will result in a week-long ban. Further God-moding after that will result in an even longer ban, eventually becoming permanent.

Metagaming - This is displaying knowledge in the RP that your character has no reason to know. Having a "feeling" that someone is watching them, or having a hunch that they need to be at a certain place, without some sort of reasoning to accommodate that ability applies. It could apply to knowing what your opponent can do for no reason, knowing how strong someone is with no explanation, so on and so forth. This will be handled the same way as God-moding.

Death - While killing is looked down upon it is possible. Should your character be killed, you may immediately create a new one with the same level of mastery in your PRIMARY Bending Discipline as the character who just died. Skill in secondary Bending Disciplines or special abilities is NOT passed on.

Thread Limits - There are no limits to how many threads a character of yours may be active in at one time. However, please limit yourself to whatever you are capable of keeping up with. If numerous complaints are received about you failing to remain active in a thread while remaining active in others, limits may be imposed over you personally. No matter how many threads you are in, however, none may occur at the same time in the story, and each must allow proper time for travel between their start and finish-essentially, without a rapid method of transportation, you cannot expect to be on one side of the world and then on another within a few days.

Content - There will be NO depictions of sexual acts written on this forum. There may be depictions of violence (it IS a universe that employs martial arts, after all), there may be harsh language, and there may be IMPLIED sexual situations-it can be said that it happened, past tense, and there may be a time skip where it may have happened-but there absolutely will be no depictions of sexual acts on this forum, in either the RP section or otherwise, and similarly, no depictions of substance abuse (other than alcohol). This is your one and only warning. Breaking this rule will result in an immediate perma-ban.

General Forum Rules


Content - As in the RP section, depiction of sexual acts/sexual harassment will NOT be tolerated. This is your one and only warning. Breaking this rule will result in an immediate perma-ban. Additionally, there will be no conversation about illegal real-world activities users may have taken part in. If you want to talk about that sort of thing, use PMs or talk to each other in a different manner than on the forum.

Respect - All users, normal or staff, are to be given due respect. Those being disrespectful to others will be severely reprimanded. This goes double for staff-there is no room on my staff for disrespect, and treating normal users with disrespect while in a position of power will result in demodding. There will be no bullying of any sort here. If you have a disagreement with someone else that cannot be handled respectfully and in a calm manner, take it somewhere else.

Discrimination - Discrimination based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, or political leanings etc. will not be tolerated. If you feel that way, keep it to yourself. This is your only warning. Breaking this rule will result in an immediate perma-ban.

Nudity - Do not post pictures or upload images for either your signature or avatar that contain nudity. Additionally, do not link to any image or video that contains nudity. Doing so will result in an immediate three day ban, and repeated offenses may lead to perma-bans.

Spamming/Advertising - We have a section for advertising. Use that. Advertising anywhere else will result in your post being removed. Repeated offenses may result in bans of differing length.

Language - Please, use English in public sections. The staff likely does not know every language you might-I myself speak a fairly uncommon language, and wouldn't expect to see many on this site who could understand me if I used it. For this reason, stick to English. If you are not comfortable with English, let us know and we'll try to be understanding if you make mistakes-but if you can fluently speak English, you have no excuse for using a different language. If you'd like to speak other languages here, do so via PM.

Multiple Accounts - The only circumstance that is allowable to create a second account is if you can no longer access your first account. If your account receives a perma-ban, and you try to make another account to circumvent it, your new account will be immediately perma-banned as soon as we figure you out. And we WILL figure you out.

Aaaaand I think that's about it. Please, enjoy the forum whilst staying within the limits of the rules written above. We will try our very best to provide you with a fun RP environment, and if everyone plays along nicely, that'll go much smoother for us. Thank you for your time.

Your friendly neighborhood admin-

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