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 to 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 "ooc"ly, 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.
-Deciding not to continue to post because you believe your character will lose.
-Extorting another member "ooc"ly to make their character do things "ic"ly 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 "ooc"ly and applying it "ic"ly 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 else without legitimate reasons.
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.
-By playing here you do agree that the administration can move your character out of a thread or other current roleplay scenario if you fall inactive.
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.
6) Character rules:
-Players may not have more than one Player character on one account, the other character will revert to Non-player character status.
-All characters must learn all their information in character, 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.