General Roleplay and Site Rules

[white]God Modding:[/white] One of the main rules you see in any role play website is god modding, wich is taking control of either another person or the situation. This is strictly prohibited, unless permission is given otherwise. This means no controlling one person's action or ALWAYS landing a hit/blow on someone. Example: "Bear grabbed Milly's wrist and pinned her." Nope. It would be: "Bear attempted to grab Milly's wrist and pin her." I'm sure everyone will understand this rule and needs no further explanation.

[white]Meta Gaming:[/white] Yet another rule you see pretty much everywhere, meta gaming is nothing more than having knowledge on a character, item, or place/situation before your character does. This means if you learn about a character's weakness on c-box or by reading a profile, your character somehow magically knows it ICly. This is not allowed as all knowledge must be gained through roleplay and whatever actions may happen in the thread. Of course there are SOME exceptions if the characters have history together or something along those lines. However, permission is required from both parties before doing this to be polite of course.

[white]Power Posting / Bumping:[/white] PP and bumping is basically spamming, just in another form. Unless in a solo thread, you are not allowed to double post or disturb the post order by going out of turn. This also means no bumping your profile unless it has been one full week without having anyone look over it. Remember we all have lives that we have to attend to.

[white]Minimum Posting Requirement:[/white] Although BLRP is a place for both advanced and intermediate roleplayers, we do have a minimum posting requirement. Our requirement is five lines (or a full paragraph). We understand it's quality over quantity, but we don't want to see two lines that have no explanation or any detail behind it. It makes it very difficult to respond to, and it's not fair to the other roleplayers when they write a full size post and get one or two lines in response. Please stick to this guideline to be fair to everyone else!

[white]Canon Positions:[/white] Being a completely OC roleplay website, we do not have canons, we do however have canon positions that hold much importance. The rules with these are pretty simple, [ INSERT LINK HERE ] will have the entire list of positions and whether they are open or not, now each member may have TWO canon positions unless they hold a King or Queen spot, once they are open. This means you may have a Knight of the round, and a Prince or Princess, or whatever position is open that you may want. If you do take on a canon position we will of course be judging your profile with a bit more harshness to it, they do afterall hold importance to our plot and will most likely be seen often throughout the events.

[white]Mages:[/white] Now this is where things become a little more strict, BLRP has no power tiers or ranks but instead relies on the writers capabilities to play out a battle or event IC'ly, and with this Mages need a set of rules. We do not want countless Mages running around nuking the armies and Knights of each kingdom, so we will be limiting these as much as we can. If you decide to apply for a Mage keep in mind that we WILL be much more strict with the profile and you might not even be accepted, this is to keep it fair IC and like stated before, not be able to wipe out an entire army and the end war right then and there. Their category of powers also has a few restrictions, this means no reality bending and no illusions. We don't want to see the world flipped upside down and Knights killing themselves because of reality being changed, and illusions being created. Everything else is pretty much free game, we'll be keeping a tight watch on these profiles.

[white]Harassment:[/white] This rule pretty much goes without saying, harassment is not something we will tolerate. This means no physical or verbal harassment, we allow joking around with each other but things need to be controlled and not get out of hand. By physical this means any actions such as -raeps- or -glomps- if the person asks you to stop, please be respectful of that and stop. Admins and Mods will hand out warning and possible bans if necessary, racism needs to also be kept low. Like said before we all love to joke around but some people find things offensive that others do not, so tolerance levels are always different. Keep this in mind when chatting to others!

[white]Material:[/white] BLRP is rated M for mature, this means anything 17+ is allowed. The only thing we ask is that you do not post adult content on the cbox, it is public to everyone and some do not want to see that. We have a Mature board that will be password protected for those that wish to use it, any adult content you have can be posted there and if your RP thread takes a turn that involves something 17+, you are required to PM an admin or mod to move the thread to the protected area. We will then give you and whoever is participating in the thread whatever password is put in place, if we find that anyone under 16 tries to access this area we will remove the thread, change the password and hand out warnings to those breaking the rules. It is MATURE for a reason, so young ones, but its the rules.

[white]Activity:[/white] Although not really a rule and more of a warning, activity is very important especially if you hold a canon position. We will not delete accounts but if you are inactive without any warning whether it be in a PM to a mod, or the board, then after two weeks you can lose your held canon position. It is not something we want to do but because of the importance of the characters it must be done, so if you need to disappear for 2 weeks or more, let us know so you don't lose your spot!

[white]Attitude and Respect:[/white] Technically falling under the harassment rules, this is something we expect from all members. We want to see a positive and good attitude towards the website and other members, we respect that you may have opinions or suggestions for both the site and members and if you must voice these, then please do so in a polite manner. We also have a suggestion and help board for a reason, if you wish to discuss it personally with a mod or admin then PM them. We ask that you do not be negative about it and use nothing but curse words or flip out if something does not go your way, we will not perform an action without reason and so we ask that you respect all of us and be polite. Especially respect your mods and admins because they ARE the ones in charge, and we would hate to have to ban you because you acted up and freaked out on one of us.

[white]Weaponry:[/white] Another quick rule would be weapons, of course swords, shields, maces, etc etc are allowed but there are a few things I don't want to see. The main one being that I don't want to see a weapon three times the size of you being swung around like it was nothing, we're medieval, not Final Fantasy. Keep that in mind when selecting your weapons, keep it realistic. A Mage with a larger staff is understandable but again, don't make it skyscraper sized. As for elemental weapons [weapons coated in fire, ice, etc] we won't be allowing that, you may however go to a Mage who specializes in enchantments and THEN have an elemental weapon. But that is a feature not yet added, so be patient!