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- Jan 2, 2009
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These are the general rules you need to know to join this RPG and co-exist peacefully. However these rules are NOT etched in Stone Tablets, nor will they eternally be just as they are now. These rules may change at any time, possibly for the better, possibly for the worse. However here's a few things to remember:
1: When the Rules and the Story clash, in my book, the Story ALWAYS wins. So if you see something in an event or a Main Storyline that clashes with the rules, ask yourself: "am I having fun? Are the people involved having fun?" If the answer is "yes", then don't worry about the rules and go along with it.
2: Many places have an 'Umbrella Rule' that states that you may be punished for whatever staff sees fit, even if the offense is not in the Rules. I'm not particularly a fan of that, so instead of doing that I'm going to say this: IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING, AND YOU'RE NOT SURE IT'S GOING TO FLY, ASK A STAFF-MEMBER. Seriously folks, if you're not sure, ASK. Ask me, ask another staffer. It's best to get permission before the fact than try to apologize after it.
3: In relation to number 2, I will offer advice I and other people have learned the hard way: HAVE A PAPER-TRAIL. Don't ask a staffer for permission for something over IM. Ask over the board. Use the Contact the Staff forum. It's there for precisely that reason. It's always best to have a paper-trail, so remember that.
and now, onto the real Rules....
- Alot of boards tell you to respect eachother and, more importantly, to respect the staff. I like that idea, however I'm not going to say you HAVE to do it. I say: TRY to respect eachother as well as the Staff. We're all human here, we all have bad days. Members and staff alike. So let's give it our best shot to not be jerks to eachother, eh?
- Second rule should be familiar to those of you who have been to RPGs before: NO GODMODDING. What is Godmodding? well that's things like attacking and saying that you hit your opponent before the opponent has had his or her say. Or dodging your opponent's attacks every time. This rule is fairly easy to follow if you remember the old Tabletop rule: anything you do in combat is an ATTEMPT. You don't hit, you don't pick a lock, you don't dodge, you don't fast-talk someone until or unless the GM has had his or her say. The same applies here. If an action you do affects another person, directly or indirectly, let them have their say, don't just say you did it.
- Remember that we have a Terms of Service/Use contract here. That contract tells us that you CAN NOT do explicit stuff. This is the ONE rule that I enforce universally here, folks. No graphic sex, no uber-gore. Both can be implied, hinted at, a wink and a nod, but no explicit descriptions or anything. Keep it PG-13 for the most part.
- To actually start playing and posting in this RPG, you MUST have a character accepted. Hopefully you're checking these rules over in order to make your character, so this shouldn't be a problem.
- I don't really wanna see a million direct rip-offs of anime/manga/comics/video game characters. I'm not an originality or realism nut, but still. Don't bother making carbon copies of canon-characters as they'll be unaccepted.
- this is one of my MAJOR pet-peeves: don't bother trying to get pre-acceptance for powers or characters. Just because one staffer says yes, doesn't mean everyone will okay it simply because so-and-so said you could have it. That don't fly around here, so don't try it.
- Another of my Pet-Peeves (notice how these keep popping up? I don't like undue stress here, folks) is people bugging me, as well as other staffers, for things like acceptance. If you posted your profile, and five minutes later you're tugging my sleeve, complaining that everyone's too slow, and begging me to look at or accept your profile, I'm gonna add a zero onto that five and take almost an hour to get around to looking at it to teach you a lesson. Be patient. Everyone has their own things and their own lives.
On the flip-side, however, if it's been a few days and noone's looked, or your approver hasn't said anything, feel free to give 'em a respectful poke. Just be sure to be polite and not give them too much of a hard time, and accept their answer when they give it. You can get an entirely different reply if you say 'hey...can you maybe check my application again? I edited it a few days ago.' rather than 'you haven't checked my character! you should! I've been waiting!'
- The Clause of Unwritten Immortality: To kill (as in really kill, not just knock 'em out for a few hours) a character, you need the permission of that character's user. Otherwise you can slice and dice and try to kill people in seven different ways but they'll just keep coming back!
- Like many other RPGs, Kamen High has post-count restrictions. You require 50 posts to make a new character, and to access rank 2 pre-con powers. 100 posts is required to use rank 3 powers, and 150 posts is required to use rank 4 ones. There is some good news in this, however: and that is that once you get to 50 posts, not only may you make new characters, but you may also request new powers, swap out powers, all that good stuff.
- Here at Kamen High, we're pretty laid back. We don't have big complex systems to prevent you from doing things that are against the rules like unauthorized editing of powers, godmodding, and other things. However if those issues do become a problem those big, complex, pain-in-the-ass-for-you-and-me systems WILL go into place and noone will be happy. So remember: if you wanna keep this place the nice, laid-back place it is, you're gonna have to have discipline. Do things the right way, and help others to do so. Otherwise life will become not so fun for all of us.
- The 'I want to!' rule: Now before everyone goes flying off the handle about the name of this rule, back up. Because guess what? it applies to YOU. That's right, you. The member. This rule states that if something like a Main Story Line or an Event is going on and you wanna be a part of it, it doesn't matter what your character would or wouldn't do, DO IT! Join up! I hear so many people say things about 'oh well I don't think my character would do that.' Well, if YOU wanna do it, if you wanna be a part of it, that's all the reason you need in my book. You dictate what your characters do, not the other way around.
- Finally: have fun! That's the ENTIRE POINT of this place. I'm not saying that there's never any serious business, or that you should goof off and disregard other people's feelings because it's your version of fun, but at the end of the day we're all here to relax, unwind, and have some fun. So take that into account.
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