Post by Headmistress Kayla on Jun 14, 2012 18:43:19 GMT -5
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1. Be Respectful to all members and staff
2. Please do not post any offensive or possibly offensive material out of character. But since this is rp, your character is allowed to do/believe in whatever they want, within reason of course.
3. Please be literate, try to use correct grammar and spelling. I know I make mistakes but, that's fine. I just don't want to see every other word mispelled to the point where someone can't understand what you're saying. If english is not your first language then that is a different story. On that note, no chatspeak outisde of the c-box.
4. Please, no spamming. Keep all advertisements in the appropriate boards.
5. This site is PG-13. So please, if you must, fade to black and make sure to put a warning in the title. Keep everything OOC PG-13 as well, afterall we might have young eyes on here that we do not want to scar for life
6. This site uses one account per character. You can make your username whatever you want but, please make sure to change your display name to your character's first and last name.
7. This is a GIFTED site. This means no supernatural beings or entities or anything of the like. Each student is fully human, just with special powers that make them unique. Think X-men.
8. A character is allowed up to three powers, but each power much somehow be related to each other. For example, an Elemental Manipulator using another power that connects to that element or another element. Also, if it relates to the character personality, plot etc etc differing powers can be allowed. Within reason of course.
9.On the side note of characters are limited to 3 powers. this doesn't mean you can't have less that 3, but three is the maximum. For Powers you can have two strong attacks and one weaker one. Ex: water manipulation, ice manipulation and then aqua respiration.
10. There is a list of ban powers, and staff approved powers. So, please heck these out before creating a character.
11. Weapons are allowed, but only to those who have been on the site for at least a month, and have a staff approval. Also, the less dangerous the weapon, the less strict we will be about approving them. Also, you need to have a legit reason for how your character came by it, or/and managed to sneak it through the checks.
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1. Believe it or not, but Chains That Bind actually does have a word count. Which is a very reasonable number of only One Hundred. However, we will expect more out of our members, especially older ones. We won't kill you if you a few words off, but any one-liners or anything close will result in a warning. If you fail to take heed of this warning then your posts will be deleted. A good rule of thumb is to try and match the person you're roleplaying with.
2. Perfect characters, or better known as Gary/Mary-Sues are absolutely banned. Give your characters some flaws, weakness so that they are unique! These things help shape a character, and make them more lovable!
3. The majority of characters should be students who fall in the seventh through twelve years (United States system), or twelve years of age to eighteen. Characters older than eighteen, including and up to age twenty-four may be created however, there must be a good reason for them to be at Ashford. For example, they can be a former student who was not strong enough to leave and became a Teacher's Assistant, or plot-related characters. Obviously, it must be well-explained in the history as well.
4. No power-playing/god-modding. This means no controlling another character's actions without permission. Your character can't dodge every hit and they can't land every punch either. other wise it loses the entire point of rp.
5. Role-playing is to be done in 3rd person, past tense!
6. All sheets that are created by new members have a one week time limited to be completed, otherwise they will be archived (unless the member asks for an extension). Older members will have a bit more lean way, but if left for long periods of time then they will be archived.
7. Regarding jumping into threads. Please do not jump into threads if the people in it already have a rhythm going, or without asking first. Out of politeness, please ask the person who created the thread if you may join, even if the thread is open. Also, if the people in the thread have at least 5 posts, then ask them before joining.
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1. Please do not stretch the board!! Signatures may be a maximum of 500 px wide, and 250 px tall. Avatars may be a maximum of 150 px wide. Any other image may be a maxmium of 500px wide.
2. No pornographic images either!
3. If you also hadn't noticed, we do use Animanga PBs here!
4. On that note, actual Face claims are optional. (ie Ikuto from Shugo Chara or Usagi from Sailor Moon). However, we do require some sort of image representation for the character, whether it be an existing character or original art
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1. First off, the site is PG-13, so no explicit material.
2. Keep cussing to a minimum. The world has so many beautiful words...try to use them.
3. To keep us all sane...I request that topics such as religion, politics, and others be kept out of the box.
4. Also, please keep advertising out of the box and in the appropriate boards