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Post by Ethan Black on Dec 5, 2009 16:40:53 GMT -5
RULES ONE. Respect is key, respect the admins, your peers, and even your enemies, it'll help get you through life. Racism, sexism, homophobia and prejudice of any kind will not be tolerated. If any problems arise, please contact any admin or moderator and the account/IP Address in question will be immediately and permanently locked. TWO. Following Proboards Guidelines, all site content is to be rated PG-13. Any content that breaks this rule not only means warning, deleting but could get our site into trouble. We will not have that. This is an young adult-oriented site. Let's keep it that way. We reserve the right to move or remove any posts that may seem inappropriate or does not hold up to Aphotic Night standards. THREE. We hold activity checks quite frequently on Aphotic Night. If your name is not on the list when it's over, your account will be deleted or suspended. Please let us know ahead of time for any long period of absences. All players are allowed multiple characters/accounts, but each and every one is expected to be active. We ask that each account posts a minimum of seven times per week or at the very least three in a two-week span. If you can’t handle the commitment, please delete the character. THE CBOX DOES NOT COUNT TOWARDS YOUR POSTING MINIMUMS. FOUR. Upon registering, please change your name to your character’s name that they are known by. Usernames will not be accepted as Character Identities. Example: sasha cohen is appropriate, DragonSlayer88 is not. Please use the application template we have provided and fill everything out. If an admin deems the app denied, you must fix it. You have a week to do the app, and we have four days to review it. Each player has the option of creating a maximun of three characters. We strongly encourage everyone to do if you can handle the responsibilities that comes along with each. This is a great way to progress and complex the storyline in new fun ways. A general understanding of Forum Based Rpging is assumed to be had by all players. FIVE. The word count on this site is four hundred characters. Posts CAN NOT be submitted with less than that number. Remember that Aphotic Night is about building a clear, strong, and dynamic community and we need literate and detailed posts to do it. don’t complain about it. Although the minimum is four hundred, the longer the post the better. Players who give strong posts each and every time will be rewarded! When using your character please try to make them as realistic as possible. Although the world of Aphotic Night is fictional, and our characters super powered, they are all subject to the laws and consequences of their world. GOD-MODING IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE!. The abilities of your characters will all have limitations attached to them, and our staff will work with you to get a clear understanding of just how powerful your character will be. No controlling other characters or making life-altering changes to the game without admin permission. A good idea is to talk to other players through the CBOX and establish a posting order so that posts do not contradict or overlap each other and try to match what the other person gives you. Send me a message with the password: 'scene boys spit fire' so that I know you read this post. Please use third person when posting in character, and constantly check others profiles for updates in character strengths, weapons, and abilities. SIX. Players will be given unique graphics and avatars as they progress. We work very hard at Aphotic Night to bring as much creativity and realism into the game as possible. When our players return the favor, we make sure to reward them in as many ways as possible. Please respect these gifts as Aphotic Night property, and ask permission before reposting them anywhere else on the internet. SEVEN. THE CBOX IS A PRIVELEGE, AND WE WILL TAKE THEM AWAY IF YOU CAN’T FOLLOW THE RULES. EIGHT. Try and get involved. We have a suggestions thread, constantly offer contest for cash prizes, and are always reworking the site and adding new features. If you have time to volunteer or a particular talent you would like to share, PLEASE LET US KNOW! We have plenty of room for improvement and the harder we work, the quicker our site can grow. If you don't agree with something, do not be afraid to voice your opinion. We are constantly putting Aphotic Night to the test and we need all the support we can get. Spread the word! Aphotic Night Lives Again!
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Post by Ethan Black on Feb 15, 2010 18:10:03 GMT -5
Rules of Roleplaying Explained 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 can not 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.)
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.
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 history -Character's documented abilties -Character's documented stats (Primary) -Character's ic knowledge.
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.
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.
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Meanwhile, a car skids off the road and plows into Billy Bob Joe Harris. Poor Billy Bob Joe Harris.
6) Character rules:
-Your character must be subject to defeat through the exploitation of it's innate weaknesses in at least two ways.
-Characters that are sanctioned by the administration must follow the orders of the administration explicitly.
-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.
-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.
7) 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.
8) 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.These rules are subject to change.
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