Post by Oberon on Oct 26, 2009 11:39:17 GMT -5
Ah the Rules - those necessary evils that all must comply by....
If you break the rules rules you will get three warnings - the first be a PM, the second temporary banishment, and the third (depending on the severity of course) is expulsion. Don't worry, we're not gonna kick you out for typing f*** three times.
General Rules
Accounts
Characters
Fights and Challenges
Breeding
Posts and Posting
Congratulations! You read the rules! NOW you can go ahead and apply! Yay!
If you break the rules rules you will get three warnings - the first be a PM, the second temporary banishment, and the third (depending on the severity of course) is expulsion. Don't worry, we're not gonna kick you out for typing f*** three times.
General Rules
- Keep it PG 13 guys! (Meaning no hot love scenes during mating season)
- Please no swearing and cussing
- No powerplaying and godmodding
- No Mary-Sue characters. They get quite annoying
- You must be 13 or older to participate (Proboard rules, not mine)
- Be polite!
- No racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. It's never fun.
- Interact with those around you. The whole point of an RPG is to role play with other people. Plus its more fun that way.
- No fighting! If you really need to please keep it to PMs!
- Liquid time is permitted
- Advertise ONLY in the advertisement section, not in the GD or the Blabber Box or anywhere else!
- NO HOTLINKING! This is against Proboards' ToS as well as ours (What is hotlinking? Hotlinking is finding a picture from one website, copying the url, and putting the picture onto another. Always host your own pictures on photobucket or something)
Accounts
- Account signatures are permitted, but please keep them reasonably sized. We don't want to see your awesome-amazing picture of your dog taking up half the page...though we would love to see your dog!
- Only ONE account per person please
- You can have as many characters as you like, but do try to keep them all active
- To prevent from having an excessive amount of wolves, you may have ONE each and only when they are open for applications
- Dingos, Coyotes, African Wild Doges etc. may only be created when the "others" applications are open
- Hybrids are allowed. You can make as many hybrids as you want, so long as you specify at least the dominant breed. If it is a wolf hybrid, then you must specify the dog's other half
Characters
- Your characters may not breed together. You must breed them with another players characters.
- You can challenge for a main pack land once a week ONLY. Once the alpha has accepted, the winner may not be challenged again for another week. The same goes for minor lands.
- Both males and females may challenge and rule as alphas. There are no gender bonuses.
- Your dogs do NOT have superpowers. I know that would be ruddy awesome, but unfortunately this is a realist-type RPG and as dog's can't break through walls with a wag of their tails, neither can your characters.
- Your character must be approved before you can start playing
- In order to be accepted, your character MUST be allied to one of the main packs, or be a loner, or allied to the city. He/she CANNOT be allied to one of the lesser packs in No Man's Land.
- If your character wants to claim a land (which is not already taken) simply put up a post in that board that says something along the lines of "-Dog Name- hereby claims this land as my own!"
Fights and Challenges
- Fights and challenges may take place anywhere - however, when you are challenging for someone's land it is best that the fight be carried out in the disputed territory.
- Males can challenge another male for his female, and vice versa with females.
- Mods will judge the fight when it is done. Winners will be chosen based on several different aspects, which can be found in the "Score Board"
- Winners will be posted on the "Score Board"
- The winner of a fight may not be challenged again for one week
- type "i owned the rules" (without the spaces) to get into the applications section
Breeding
- Breeding can happen anywhere as long as the female is in heat
- Please keep all breeding posts PG 13. It's best if you sort of blow over it.
- A male must have a female's consent before breeding with her. Forcebreeding is not allowed.
- Once you have bred, please post the stats of both mother and father in the "Baby Mine" thread, where Staff will determine the number of pups in your litter, how many males versus females you will be having, etc.
- Dogs must be at least a year old before they can breed
Posts and Posting
- Your posts should always be at least 150 words long (no one liners!!!)
- No polls asking "how popular am I?" or "how sexy am I?" It's demented.
- Please use chunks of colour only when deciphering between two characters in a single post (meaning that if you are playing Roger and Jen, Roger may be typed in green and Jen in purple)
- To avoid confusion, when you are referring to something someone else said, please type it out with a STRIKE through the middle! (ex.
"That's enough! I'm leaving." - Please try and separate your characters' speech from the rest of the paragraph. You can do this in many ways, not the least of which is adding a colour ONLY to the dictated parts, or making everything they say in bold, or increasing the font size for diction alone. Or any other fun way you can think of.
- When a character is thinking about something, please put it in italics.
- DO NOT USE CHAT SPEAK FOR YOUR POSTS!
Congratulations! You read the rules! NOW you can go ahead and apply! Yay!