RP Rules and Guidelines

[Teto 2609]

Other Characters

They belong to their owners, whether their owner created them or adopted them. Do not play other people's characters. Unless you have been given permission to do so by the elf's owner, playing characters that do not belong to you will result in the deletion of the offending post or segment in which the offence is made. This is what you do with your elf. Do not do it with any elf that is not yours unless specifically directed to do otherwise by the owner of the elf in question, or by us.

Speaking of which, we also reserve the right to move your character if that character is holding up the RP for everyone else. If the entire tribe is ready to start rearranging the Chieftess' furniture, and your elf is frolicking in the bushes with a toothsome wench, your elf will be moved by us to join the rest of the tribe. We don't want to have to do this, so please don't hold up the RP. If we cut off any RP you may have going by doing this, feel free to RP it between those involved and post it as a story.

Post Ettiquette

RP posts are to be written in the past-tense.

Incorrect: Crestfallen walks into the clearing and smiles at her gathered tribe. **Today we rearrange my furniture!** she sends to them.

Correct: Crestfallen walked into the clearing and smiled at her gathered tribe. **Today we rearrange my furniture!** she sent to them.

When replying to a post, reply to them with a quote box in place as to avoid confusion.

When possible, avoid posts that are one or two sentences long. If you honestly can't think of anything to post, then it is acceptable, but this will not be acceptable on a regular basis. Be creative, describe what your character is thinking or feeling, make mention of that squirrel that just fell off a tree.

To avoid confusion, we use a standard set of symbols to indicate certain actions. These are to be used in this holt, be it RP or story, no exceptions.

quotation marks ("...") are to be used to indicate speech; ex. "Hello," he said

single asterisk / italics (*...*) indicates thought; ex. *I wonder if should say hello,* he thought

italics ([ i][/ i]) and/or hyphens (-...-) indicate emphasis on the word they surround; ex. He really / -really- felt like saying hello

When making a comment that comes from you rather than your character, please label it as OOC (out of character) or with double parenthesis.

ex. OOC: My nose itches / ((My nose itches)).

OOC posts should be attached to an in-character post, usually at the end of it. Someone else may reply to the OOC portion of your post as well as the IC; however, no thread unless started by one of us should be strictly OOC. In some cases, a single OOC post explaining a leave of absence or something similar is acceptable, but if it becomes a conversation, you will be asked to continue it in private.

Roleplay Conduct

No flaming. Ever. If you have a problem with someone on the list, settle it privately. If you cannot settle it privately, report them to one of the moderators and we will do our best to settle it for you only if you have tried every possible way to settle it yourself and still failed. We are not your mother, so don't come crying to us because little Johnny's elf hit your elf. If the problem is genuine, and we cannot do anything, one or both parties may be asked to leave the RP. We would rather not do this, so please don't let disagreements get out of hand.

If you have a complaint to lodge against another member, please bring it to our attention and we will deal with it as we see fit.

Keeping Player Knowledge Separate From Character Knowledge

There may be points in the RP where a secret is revealed and out for everyone to read about. However, if Elf A told Elf B this secret while they were alone, no one else should know it. If you are unsure about whether your elf could have overheard, please ask before throwing this piece of information out as a topic of conversation around the dinner table. This also falls into implied secrets. For example - we all know the drill. A guy character hangs out with a girl character, it's assumed by the players (often correctly) that these two will soon embark upon a romantic relationship. However, if they have done nothing in the RP to indicate romantic feelings for each other, the tribe should not be talking about how these two are madly in love. This requires discretion, and again, if there are any questions don't hesitate to ask them.

Found these rules somewhere and they're pretty good to go by. If you have suggestions for additions, feel free to post them.

[Ryu 7]

Godmodding?

Example: Ryu leapt five hundred feet into the air and did a quadruple-spin kick which broke the giant's neck.

No way.

What's that called? Power-playing?

[Umbreon 0]

That's GMing... PPng is in the rules (other character control.)

[Mao 0]

Controlling other people's characters is called bunnying.

[Ryu 7]

I see, yus, no godmodding.

[Ivo-goji 0]

What about in RPs where godmodding is acceptable? Such as when the characters (espeacially non-RP created characters) posess god-like power and can 'jump five hundred feet into the air and do a quadruple spin-kick' or rip out their intrails and place them back with out any problem. A Journy to the West related RP would likely have this situation, as most of the characters can and have done these things in adaptations. Perhaps it should be requiered for each RP to have specific rules and a clear definition of what would be qualified as "god-modding" in the that particular game? It might give players the idea that they CAN god-mod if they find some sort of loopole in the RP master's regulations, but I think it would allow for more flexible games and make the RP creator put a little extra thought into his/her/they/it's RP.

[SuperSaiyanJirrue 0]

Can our OC's have some kind of special Demon or something sealed in them? The OC I've used for a long time has a six tailed volcanic Dragon sealed within him.

Just wondering if that would be okay.

[Teto 2609]

Only if it makes sense in the RP. If there is no lore of demons, then no demons for you. If the OP allows it, then it's fine, but otherwise, no.

[SuperSaiyanJirrue 0]

Okay. Just wondering. On a side note would Zelda kind of count for that?

[phantomfan959 0]

it would make more sense for rps to have their own set of rules defined by the person who started that partivcular rp

[Karlz 0]

Hello! I'm new to Hyrule.net and I'm sorry if this has been asked, but does our character HAVE to be an elf? Like, for example, I want my character to be a wolf. ould that be okay, or no?

[Umbreon 0]

Elf was just the stand in... your character can be what ever fits into the RP

[Karlz 0]

but... don't we have a normal character? That we use all the time? :huh:This site is weird, man... On other rp sites you have to fill out a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE bio and get approval from a mod and then you play... so you basically saying I could make my wolf blue and sparkly, and that's okay "as long as it fits in the rp? ...SWEEEEET!

[Teto 2609]

No, you're just unfamiliar with anywhere outside of specialist RP sites. This site isn't centred around RPs, so we don't take it as seriously as those other sites. And yes, as long as it fits, you can have any character, as long as it's not an omg-huge-and-uber-powerful-kill-you-with-a-breath character.

[Stormsworder 0]

Pretty much, the RP owner states the guidelines for the characters to have. If your character doesn't follow the guidelines, chances are they won't be accepted. For example, in my own, I wouldn't allow the wolf character to pass because it doesn't fit with my guidelines of using Twilight Princess races.