Role-Play Etiquette

Basic Terminology

• God Modding: God modding is being immune to all types of influence or injury as well as taking control of another players character

• Meta Gaming: Also known as "Meta-ing" this is the process of taking knowledge gained Out of Character(OoC) and using it In Character (IC) without the process of your character learning about the information. There are some exceptions to this, such as general knowledge and such, but such things should be discussed before assumptions are made.

• Powergaming: Powergaming is used to describe a character who has no discernible weaknesses or flaws. These are characters close to mary-sues, but typically only in the area of combat.

• Mary Sue: This is a combination of God-Modding and Powergaming. A Mary Sue is a character who is perfect in every way, has no flaws, and never experiences a setback. This is a character who, no matter how actually detrimental something is as a character trait, is seen as positive.

General Roleplay Etiquette

• When you are talking out of RP text in an RP Channel please use (( )) to denote. Such as ((Hello this is an example)). Alternatively you can use ( ) instead.

• When you are roleplaying with multiple characters in a single scene establish a turn order and ask permission from your fellow roleplayers, or a moderator, if you can post out of order

• You cannot skip between different time frames in your roleplays. This means that if a roleplay starts before an event happens you don't have knowledge of that event untilt he RP ends, unless the RP ended up in that event.

• You cannot declare your character to know someone without permission from that person. This is voided if the person is stated to be generally known such as the Hogokami.

• You cannot declare your character to share history or a background with another character without permission from that player.

• You cannot make someone notice something, you have to let them notice it themselves

• GWYG: Give What You Get. It's polite to try and return just as much quantity and quality that your roleplay partner gives you. It doesn't have to be perfect, but please put in some effort to give an attempt!

• Play your character as you've written them. If someone is secretive, play them secretive, if someone is trusting, play them trusting. If there's a change please show a build up through an RP.

Combat Roleplay Etiquette

• You cannot control another persons character without permission

• You must allow another character to choose to accept or avoid an attack. If there is a disagreement on whether an attack should hit or not please contact a moderator.

• You cannot say where a hit lands, only where you intend to strike.