Post by Ginny Weasley on May 25, 2012 22:05:26 GMT
Basic Rules:
Major rule: Do NOT force your pairings onto other people. Romance is NOT the primary point of this RP. While I don't object to relationships springing up - you MUST make sure the other person's happy with it before throwing the characters together. If someone makes it clear that they don’t want to explore the pairing idea you’ve proposed, just leave it at that. Don’t flame, whine, or generally keep on about it in the hopes of changing their mind. Due to past experiences, I will not hesitate to enforce this rule.
Character Rules:
Play rules:
Other:
And, most importantly:
Seriously, I've tried starting a site like this before, and it only lasted a couple of months. I don't want the same to happen to this one, so even if most people seem to be disappearing from here, please try your hardest to keep on RPing regardless.
- You must read these rules before applying for a character.
- Don't be mean.
- No Godmodding. Godmodding, for those who might not know, is taking control of a character whom you don’t play – their actions, their speech, anything. You only have control of the characters you’ve claimed.
- No powerplaying, either - making your character stupidly powerful and unable to be harmed.
- English only, please. That’s the only language I understand.
- Use of chatspeak and the like is not permitted within the roleplay.
- Nothing too sexually explicit, if you please.
- No Spam.
Major rule: Do NOT force your pairings onto other people. Romance is NOT the primary point of this RP. While I don't object to relationships springing up - you MUST make sure the other person's happy with it before throwing the characters together. If someone makes it clear that they don’t want to explore the pairing idea you’ve proposed, just leave it at that. Don’t flame, whine, or generally keep on about it in the hopes of changing their mind. Due to past experiences, I will not hesitate to enforce this rule.
Character Rules:
- At the moment, the character limit is fixed at maximum seven (7) characters per member.
- You may have no more than three (3) canon students.
- You may have no more that two (2) student OCs.
- Of these students, you may have no more than two (2) per member from a single house.
- Each Character must have a separate account, with the account name being that of the character that you are playing as from that account.
- If a character has a pet, - for example, Hagrid with Fang; Harry with Hedwig; etc, - then that pet should be played by the person who plays their owner, as an extension of said owner's account. The pet may not, however, be claimed as an individual character (with the possible exception of Scabbers, seeing as he's an animagus).
- To apply for a character, you must fill out an application template and post it in a new thread under the appropriate sub-board.
- You must wait for your application to be approved by me before you can post in any roleplaying threads as the character in question.
- Do not bother me about approving applications. If there is a problem with the app, I will contact you. If not, then just be patient, and I’ll get to it as soon as I can.
- Once your application is approved, you must post as that character in an RP within a month, or your claim will be disgarded.
Play rules:
- You cannot play as a character who hasn't been approved. Don’t post in an RP until I have approved your application.
- Please keep your posts reasonably long, if at all possible – five sentences, at least; a paragraph or two is even better. One-line posts are frowned upon, and if you make them frequently, it will severely decrease your chances of achieving approval for subsequent characters.
- If a character has been dropped, they are then available to be claimed again – however the claimer must take into account any continuity established by the previous player.
- Please keep RPing with yourself - that is, extensive scenes between just the characters played by you - to an absolute minimum. I know it can't be avoided at times, however this is a roleplay, not a fanfic, so I don't want anyone making a habit of it on here.
- Don't go too fast when RPing. Not everyone can be online 24/7, and no-one likes to come back and find that a thread they're in has progressed miles without them. If a thread has gained three or more pages over the course of 12 hours, then it's probably going too fast and you ought to slow it down.
Other:
- Please keep Signature image sizes to 200 pixels high, at the maximum.
And, most importantly:
DO NOT LET THIS SITE DIE!
Seriously, I've tried starting a site like this before, and it only lasted a couple of months. I don't want the same to happen to this one, so even if most people seem to be disappearing from here, please try your hardest to keep on RPing regardless.