Post by Kain Winters on Apr 13, 2009 14:04:17 GMT -5
You must read this before even creating a character!
00: Have fun! Don't worry about all these restrictions and rules incredibly, they are just here to make sure everyone has a great time Roleplaying together!
1: Do not use one liners. We all prefer roleplaying with people who write good length replies, seeing as it's very hard to reply when all you've got to work with is "She nodded, and walked away." Yeah, that's no good.
2: [glow=red,2,300]PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE [/glow]use punctuation! Everyone wants to understand you! For example, no "she said how is this even possible? I dont understand she said why did you betray me" <----It's annoying, and hard to follow.
3: No really sexual content. Unless you ask me to do so, and I create a "Mature board" with a password for that. You MAY kiss, make out, or whatever. But nothing super racey. You can never know what age group is roleplaying with you, so you don't want to offend or scare unknowing 12 year olds.
4: No major cursing. Same as above, there is always a young audience, so we want to make sure that they are comfortable RPing with everyone. If you feel the need to curse, please ask me for what is acceptable.
5: You are allowed to go into the Forbidden Forest, and such places, yet, (Like in the movie,) teachers and staff members may pull you out, and deduct points from your house.
6: In case you haven't done so, please go to the character bio section, and repost your own thread for your character. It will be looked over, and if it looks acceptable, the sorting hat will sort you into a house. You do NOT get to choose your house.
7: There are also a few races you may choose from. If you have one in mind, please ask me, and I will tell you if its alright. I don't want to have a bunch of werewolves or vampires running around Hogwarts, a couple is good enough for me.
8: in the "Character Models" Section, this is for you to post a model for your character to look like. Again, no anime or cartoons please, they aren't very easy to relate to, if more people are looking at real life pictures.
9: I will be accepting canon characters, (characters that are already in the story.) Such as Dumbledore, Luna Lovegood, Severus Snape, ect. But, again, you need to make sure your "Snape" acts like the real Snape.
10: God Moding. Please don’t control anybody else’s character. unless, it's your character that you are roleplay with. Say, you have two characters, and they just so happen to end up in the same house, or something. Also, if there is no one playing a Canon character, controlling them is acceptable. Ask anyone if you want to cast a killing spell or have an idea that would be a great plot for the two, three or however many of you.
11: No Mary Sue’s. Nobody is perfect in every single way at all. You can’t have exceptional super powers or wand casting powers or awesome good looks and every guy/girl wants you. No. Everybody has little things wrong with them. That’s what makes us unique and different from one another. Even if every girl or guy wants you, other people may say so. Not you. Unless, you are a conceited git. (Which you may very well be.)
12: All Role Playing is to be done in third person. If this is a problem come talk to me. The only place that you don’t have to post in third person is the Out Of Character boards.
Third person is:
Harry looked over his shoulder. He was alone.
Not:
I looked over my shoulder. No one was with me.
Make sure you ask me or any other Administrators, questions that you may have.
Sincerely,
Kain Winters
00: Have fun! Don't worry about all these restrictions and rules incredibly, they are just here to make sure everyone has a great time Roleplaying together!
1: Do not use one liners. We all prefer roleplaying with people who write good length replies, seeing as it's very hard to reply when all you've got to work with is "She nodded, and walked away." Yeah, that's no good.
2: [glow=red,2,300]PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE [/glow]use punctuation! Everyone wants to understand you! For example, no "she said how is this even possible? I dont understand she said why did you betray me" <----It's annoying, and hard to follow.
3: No really sexual content. Unless you ask me to do so, and I create a "Mature board" with a password for that. You MAY kiss, make out, or whatever. But nothing super racey. You can never know what age group is roleplaying with you, so you don't want to offend or scare unknowing 12 year olds.
4: No major cursing. Same as above, there is always a young audience, so we want to make sure that they are comfortable RPing with everyone. If you feel the need to curse, please ask me for what is acceptable.
5: You are allowed to go into the Forbidden Forest, and such places, yet, (Like in the movie,) teachers and staff members may pull you out, and deduct points from your house.
6: In case you haven't done so, please go to the character bio section, and repost your own thread for your character. It will be looked over, and if it looks acceptable, the sorting hat will sort you into a house. You do NOT get to choose your house.
7: There are also a few races you may choose from. If you have one in mind, please ask me, and I will tell you if its alright. I don't want to have a bunch of werewolves or vampires running around Hogwarts, a couple is good enough for me.
8: in the "Character Models" Section, this is for you to post a model for your character to look like. Again, no anime or cartoons please, they aren't very easy to relate to, if more people are looking at real life pictures.
9: I will be accepting canon characters, (characters that are already in the story.) Such as Dumbledore, Luna Lovegood, Severus Snape, ect. But, again, you need to make sure your "Snape" acts like the real Snape.
10: God Moding. Please don’t control anybody else’s character. unless, it's your character that you are roleplay with. Say, you have two characters, and they just so happen to end up in the same house, or something. Also, if there is no one playing a Canon character, controlling them is acceptable. Ask anyone if you want to cast a killing spell or have an idea that would be a great plot for the two, three or however many of you.
11: No Mary Sue’s. Nobody is perfect in every single way at all. You can’t have exceptional super powers or wand casting powers or awesome good looks and every guy/girl wants you. No. Everybody has little things wrong with them. That’s what makes us unique and different from one another. Even if every girl or guy wants you, other people may say so. Not you. Unless, you are a conceited git. (Which you may very well be.)
12: All Role Playing is to be done in third person. If this is a problem come talk to me. The only place that you don’t have to post in third person is the Out Of Character boards.
Third person is:
Harry looked over his shoulder. He was alone.
Not:
I looked over my shoulder. No one was with me.
Make sure you ask me or any other Administrators, questions that you may have.
Sincerely,
Kain Winters