Board Thread:Role-Play/@comment-25113070-20150210201114

Hey everyone! In an effort to culminate all of the roleplay into a single organised location, this new forum has been established. Please start a topic with the roleplay name and then add the beginning of the roleplay to the first post.

1. No sexually explicit situations or guro/graphic torture scenes.

 * Sexual situations and acts of graphic/violent nature should not be posted on a publicly viewable forum. If you want to act out these scenarios with a partner, do it in PMs on the Live Chat module.

2. No metagaming.

 * In role-playing games, metagaming is an "out of character" action where a player's character makes use of knowledge that the player is aware of but that the character is not meant to be aware of.
 * Example: Player A knows player B has a tendency to have his characters betray their friends. As a result of this metaknowledge, Player A kills Player B immediately after meeting him in character. This is metagaming because Player A did not know Player B's character well enough to justify his actions in game, instead using knowledge from outside the roleplay.

3. No overpowered characters and/or powergaming.

 * An 'OP OC' is an overpowered original character that player uses during his or her roleplay sessions. This character is frequently seen attempting actions that are far outside of their reasonable capabilities.
 * Example: Player A creates a brand new character and joins his first ever roleplay. Within 5 minutes, Player A is attempting to blow up a city using magic spells. This is overpowered because Player A is attempting to make his character perform actions that are unreasonable for his level of experience.
 * Powergaming (or god moding) is an act of forcing the result of one's actions on another character, typically without the other player's consent and not giving the other character a chance to do anything about the emote.
 * Example: Player A psota an emote that says *[Player A OC] swings his sword and decapitates [Player B OC]*. This is powergaming because Player B did not give Player A his consent to kill his character and was not given a chance to respond to the emote.

4. Respect your fellow roleplayers.

 * Respect your fellow Wikia members. Almost every user here has a different idea of what the MGE universe is like and how the characters interact with each other. We encourage you to share your ideas with the community but at the same time, we demand that you respect your fellow users. Harassment and bullying will not tolerated and will lead to an immediate life ban for the offender.

5. Take turns submitting actions.

 * Once you have submitted your actions to a roleplay thread, give the other players time to respond. Submitting back to back actions for your character and confuse participants and make things difficult to keep on track. Along with that, any player who can submit multiple actions would naturally have a much greater control of the direction of the roleplay session than other participants. If another player has not responded to your actions in a reasonable amount of time, feel free to post a reminder message on their wall.

6. Keep IC and OOC separate.

 * Don't let the grudges and emotion attached to your characters spill over into out of character. If you and another user share conflicting views, open a civil discussion in Live Chat or on your user wall. Should things escalate to name calling and flaming, an admin will step in and suspend the offending parties.

7. Keep the active roleplay here; Blogs are for fanfiction, fanlore, and off topic discussions.

 * If you find yourself actively replying to a blogspot post and acting out situations with another user, it probably belongs on the roleplay forum.
 * Example: User A writes a fanfiction story and posts it to his blog. User B sees the story and writes a short IC reply to the fanfiction. After a handful of replies, User A notices that he and User B are engaged in an active RP and suggests they move to the roleplay forum.

8. Global rules apply.

 * It goes without saying but the Global Community Rules apply here too. Follow them.

If you have any question feel free to contact User:Jekkers or User:Mauller.

 