Roleplay Guidelines

Roleplay Guidelines Jun 28, 2009 4:38:19 GMT -5

Post by Zod on Jun 28, 2009 4:38:19 GMT -5

1) God Moding

A god mode is an action that a character makes that's physically impossible for that character and/or anyone. If that character cannot make it rain through an ability, or magic, then if that character makes it rain anyway, that character has god modded. God moding can also entail striking another character through direct language without giving proper chance for that other character to avoid it.

ie; Jack slashes jim across the chest. (This is illegal.)

ie: Jack slashed at Jim in a way that would cut him across the chest. (Legal.)

Depending on the circumstances, this is a severe offense.

2) Metagaming

This term has been thrown around a lot without people knowing what it really means. It's committed oocly, it's the ooc counterpart to god moding. It's an action taken by the player that has no basis other than ooc information.

Examples of Metagaming:
Billy bob's character has a knife, Joe learns that billy bob's character has a knife, suddenly Joe's character has a knife too.

An unfinished duel.

Extorting another member oocly to make their character do things icly that they normally wouldn't do which would be against that character's nature.

Saying a character's name in character dialogue without one's own character learning it prior.

Learning information oocly and applying it icly without your character learning it on it's own.

This is a severe offense no matter the circumstances.

3) Powergaming

Depending on the type of duel, this action can be both a metagame, a god mode, and it's own self at the same time. To powergame is to raise your character above someone elses without legitimate reasons.

Legitimate reasons
Character's documented abilties
Character's documented stats (Primary)
Character's ic knowledge.

Depending on the circumstances, this can range in severity.

4) Puppeteering

This action is directly controlling another player's character without that player's written permission. A player that commits puppeteering breaks both constitution articles and copyright law, and are subject to, if the need arises, criminal indictment.

A player that grants another player control of their character should include in the written permission, how long the control will last, and whether or not the character can be killed. Everything included in the written permission is considered ultimatum, all must be fulfilled, or the control is illegal, any actions that have been preformed are thus illegal and null/void. The player that puppeteered the character is then subject to administrative punishment.

This is a severe offense.

5) Auto-Killing

Writing another character's death without the expressed permission of the character owner falls under both puppeteering and auto-killing. Auto-killing without a count of puppeteering is using the environment to kill another character.

Example:

Meanwhile, a car skids off the road and plows into Billy Bob Joe Harris. Poor Billy Bob Joe Harris.

This is not allowed, no matter the circumstances, unless agreed upon by both characters.

Character rules:

Your character must be subject to defeat through the exploitation of it's innate weaknesses in at least two ways.
Characters that have only one exploitable weakness and are not of administration sanction, must remain neutral in all affairs IC and may only attack when attacked, and must stop short of permanently neutralizing the attacking character. They may not look for duels.
Characters that are sanctioned by the administration must follow the orders of the administration explicitly.
Players may not have more than one Player character on one account, the other character will revert to Non-player character status.
The Bio Approval Code Phrase is: "I'd like my pancakes dyed green, Meestur Headbang."
Non player characters owned by a player may not be killed by a Player character or a fellow Non player character unless the Player character's own life is threatened, and the other non-player character's life is threatened.
Non-player characters not owned by any player are subject to auto-kills.
All characters must learn all their information icly, or inherently through their history or nature. A character that is a Knight, would not know how to cast a spell, unless it was taught that spell by a type of caster. A character that is a knight should already know how to fight.
A player character may not be killed in any circumstance, without the written permission of the character owner.
Non-Player Characters that are storyline only may have stats, but are limited to certain domains, and may only fight a PC if attacked by a PC or if the owner of the character it would fight expresses permission.

Stat Rules

Stats are to be used in all fights in some way.
The physics the specific game adheres to are the physics every character must adhere to.
Falsifying Stats falls under metagaming, and falsifying documentation.

Life and Death

Depending on the level of medical advances, depends on what kind of wounds a character can sustain without said wounds being mortal.
Mortal wounds are a legitimate reason why a character could die, though without the written permission from the player, or the player playing the death itself, the character has the right to life and recovery.
Recoveries from all damage sustained in battle must be consistent with the damage. A character that has been stabbed in the eye in the dark ages, if it survives, will not be able to see out of that eye, if it has that eye at all.
NPC's that suffer mortal wounds must die unless a Player character claims ownership of that NPC.
Character's may not be returned from the dead unless otherwise agreed upon the moderators and only under special circumstances.