The Mods of Word Spell (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wordspellmods) wrote2014-10-03 02:18 pm
wordspellmods) wrote2014-10-03 02:18 pm
Rules
As players and moderators of a game there are certain rules that everyone should abide by, we request that you take your time to read over this list and acquaint yourself with the some of the regulations that this community upholds. They are listed below. Any time a new rule has been added it will be posted in the OOC community (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
wordspellooc) to let players know what is going on and keep them informed.
1. Drama between players is not tolerated at all. This is the internet, not serious business; we're all here to have fun. If any problems do occur, it must be brought to a moderator asap. We would prefer if you didn't take any issues to wankgate or rpanons, as it will get back to the moderators eventually.
2. No godmodding. For people who don't know what that means, it means you're deciding the actions of another person's character without that mun's consent. You need permission to do things with another persons character, you can't just be all willy-nilly about it. You get one warning if this happens and if you do it again, you will be banned.
3. The Fourth Wall is not meant to be shattered over your knee. Pay attention to posts where things are private and hackable. Just because you know something about a character, doesn't mean your character knows it. This is also known as meta-gaming and not tolerated.
4. Staying in character is an absolute must. People are also not their characters, so if someone's character is a dick to yours, it doesn't mean the mun is a dick to you. If you think someone is blatantly ooc, you are allowed to report it to the moderators. Before you do that, we do require every character to have a mandatory HMD post in their journals - take advantage of these posts to critique someone in a civilized manner.
5. All Loveless canon beats your character canon(s). This means that when you apply, you're making that character fit in the game, not the other way around. You have to think 'how would their canon convert to this type of setting?'
6. Your character is either a human, or a human. Maybe a human. We might also allow humans.
7. Plagiarism is not tolerated. This goes for your application, it should be in your own words and not copypasta from wikipedia or any other source of online information. If you're caught doing this, you will have to wait two weeks before being allowed to reapply.
8. Stay active. Our activity requirements are 1 post/log OR threads totaling 20 comments a month. A post is any IC post inwordspell and does not require a specific number of comments to count toward activity. Activity Check is posted on the 1st of every month, and must be replied to within a week, please provide links to your character(s)' activity. We're not going to babysit you and go 'hey, why aren't you posting?' If you're on hiatus, it's also your responsibility to post it on the hiatus page.
9. If you drop a character, you must wait a week before applying or putting another character on hold. That being said, if someone drops a character that you'd like to try and play, you are not allowed to apply for a week.
10. We tolerate all forms of relationships inwordspell. Remember though, building up to a relationship is just as much fun as diving in. If things go into nsfw territory, it must be locked to the community with warnings, and tagged on the logs.
11. There is currently a 4 character limit. You may play only two Fighters and only two Sacrifices - and you must app from each side. You can't app two Sacrifices and no Fighters, and vice versa (but you are free to have a fighter and two sacrifices, for example).
12. Valid characters to apply are as follows:
wordspellooc) to let players know what is going on and keep them informed.1. Drama between players is not tolerated at all. This is the internet, not serious business; we're all here to have fun. If any problems do occur, it must be brought to a moderator asap. We would prefer if you didn't take any issues to wankgate or rpanons, as it will get back to the moderators eventually.
2. No godmodding. For people who don't know what that means, it means you're deciding the actions of another person's character without that mun's consent. You need permission to do things with another persons character, you can't just be all willy-nilly about it. You get one warning if this happens and if you do it again, you will be banned.
3. The Fourth Wall is not meant to be shattered over your knee. Pay attention to posts where things are private and hackable. Just because you know something about a character, doesn't mean your character knows it. This is also known as meta-gaming and not tolerated.
4. Staying in character is an absolute must. People are also not their characters, so if someone's character is a dick to yours, it doesn't mean the mun is a dick to you. If you think someone is blatantly ooc, you are allowed to report it to the moderators. Before you do that, we do require every character to have a mandatory HMD post in their journals - take advantage of these posts to critique someone in a civilized manner.
5. All Loveless canon beats your character canon(s). This means that when you apply, you're making that character fit in the game, not the other way around. You have to think 'how would their canon convert to this type of setting?'
6. Your character is either a human, or a human. Maybe a human. We might also allow humans.
7. Plagiarism is not tolerated. This goes for your application, it should be in your own words and not copypasta from wikipedia or any other source of online information. If you're caught doing this, you will have to wait two weeks before being allowed to reapply.
8. Stay active. Our activity requirements are 1 post/log OR threads totaling 20 comments a month. A post is any IC post in
wordspell and does not require a specific number of comments to count toward activity. Activity Check is posted on the 1st of every month, and must be replied to within a week, please provide links to your character(s)' activity. We're not going to babysit you and go 'hey, why aren't you posting?' If you're on hiatus, it's also your responsibility to post it on the hiatus page. 9. If you drop a character, you must wait a week before applying or putting another character on hold. That being said, if someone drops a character that you'd like to try and play, you are not allowed to apply for a week.
10. We tolerate all forms of relationships in
wordspell. Remember though, building up to a relationship is just as much fun as diving in. If things go into nsfw territory, it must be locked to the community with warnings, and tagged on the logs. 11. There is currently a 4 character limit. You may play only two Fighters and only two Sacrifices - and you must app from each side. You can't app two Sacrifices and no Fighters, and vice versa (but you are free to have a fighter and two sacrifices, for example).
12. Valid characters to apply are as follows:
We are currently allowing:
• Canon Characters of all media types
• This includes Webcomics
• Alternate Characters; a character introduced in an anniversary edition or a re-release or something like that is perfectly welcome so long as it doesn't cut too close to the duplicate character rule.
• Original Characters
• Fandom OCs/"NPCs"/Low-Canon-Content Characters (if you've written a story that gives a backstory to some Bug Catcher from Pokémon or you expand on the personality of a League of Legends character then by all means have fun AUing them into the game. I'm sure it'll make getting icons easier.)
We are also allowing the following character types with stipulations:
• Inhuman characters are allowed, but they must be made human
• Characters from incomplete canons, given that there is sufficient information for characterization.
We are not allowing the following characters:
• Characters from the Loveless canon.
• Duplicate characters.