RPG BOARD RULES

Summarized on this page you can find the general RPG Board Rules every player, Moderator and Admin needs to follow:

GENERAL RULES

1. RESPECT EACH OTHER

All members will respect each other, regardless of status, race, gender, age or sexuality of another member or his or her role-play character. Every member has the right to feel safe from prejudice criticism here on the board. However, the Role Playing Board is not a platform to spread (non-roleplaying) related beliefs, political opinions or ideas in general etc. Insulting someone and descriminating people based on any of the items previously listed will be given a warning or, in extreme cases, will be banned from the bored.

2. USE APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE

Refrain from using language that others may consider to be obscene, offensive or inappropriate. Every member has the right to be comfortable here on the board, and every member must respect that. We will allow some swearwords given they are used in good taste, but failure to adhere to these rules may result in a warning or, in extreme cases, a ban.

There is no advertising allowed anywhere on this board. Advertisements will be deleted immediately, and repeating offenders will be banned from the board. Some exceptions may be made if a member comes across something that he/she feels other may want to know about, but these must be run by an admin, and only after the admin approves it, the member will be allowed to post it publicly.

3. NO ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES

No conducting of illegal activities can be tolerated on the board. Activities like spamming, hacking, posting with other people's accounts without their explicit consent and similar actions are strictly prohibited and can be punished by banning or even result in an ezBoard wide ban. In these cases your user name will be reported to the ezBoard Administrator, who may take further action.

4. SIGNATURE LIMITATIONS

All signatures used at ezBoard posts must adhere to pre-defined limitations in order to guarantee that people with slower modems and smaller screen resolutions can still view the board properly. You are only allowed pictures no bigger than 350×70 and no larger that 30KB. No animated GIFs or Flash Movies are allowed either.

You may use the following character limit table as a general orientation on how much characters are allowed at the signature depending on the ezBoard font size:

If these regulations are not followed, you will be asked to change your signature.

5. RESPECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All members must respect intellectual property both of this site and of other sites you wish to use images or material (text) from. The use of text from this, other sites or additional sources is only to be used for reference or inspirational purposes, other uses may be considered plagiarism, and the member may be asked to remove and or rewrite the offending text. Anyone wanting to use an image that is not their own must obtain permission from the creator, and be fully aware of any restrictions the creator may impose on the use or alteration of their work. Anyone using images commissioned for their use should also be aware of any restrictions on the use of these images and alterations of the images in question. Anyone found to have not conformed to this will be asked to change or remove the image in accordance to the creator's wishes. If a creator choses to take legal action against the board/site or member in question, due to copyright or trademark law, this will be handled under the Illegal Activity rule (see above).


ROLE PLAYING IN CHARACTER RULES

1. STAY TRUE TO YOUR CHARACTER

A player may not exceed the abilities that they have laid out for there character. A character’s abilities may improve over time within a game, but this improvement must be realistic. Failure to adhere to this will result in a warning. Some warnings will be administered before a player is exempted from the RPG. If improved abilities are to be used by that character in a later RP story, they should be edited into the background section of the character’s profile. The background will also need to include a short history of the RP story where abilities improved.

2. STAY TRUE TO THE WORLD YOU'RE PLAYING IN

A player should remain true to Santharia as good as possible and not deliberately work against the world design. That is to say, players should heed the limitations and the qualities of the world in which they are playing in and also take advantage of them. Mistakes and certain contradictions will be allowed if they are not done on purpose, but ones that may affect the RP story in decisive ways or represent violations of defined Santharian history may result in a player’s post being altered or even deleted. Continual offenders may be exempted from the RPG if Moderators or Administrators object.

3. NO CHARACTER KILLING

A player may not kill or specify the damage of another character. Killing of characters/NPCs without permission is strictly prohibited (unless previously discussed and agreed upon), and failure to adhere to such rules may result in a player’s post being changed. Repeated offenders may be exempted from the RPG. Specifying damage, while a lesser offense, may still result in a player’s post being altered. This of course lies mainly in the hand of the story's Moderators.

A player is not allowed to decide the actions of a character that her or she doesn't have expressed permission to control. This is called autoing, and may cause posts to be altered or even deleted along with a warning. Repeat offenders may be exempted from the RP story in which these offenses were made. A player may neither decide the actions of a fellow player nor the actions of a NPC that is registered to another member. The moderators of a story may be allowed to control another character if he or she is away without notification (AWN) and the character is needed to keep the story moving forward.