Game Rules

From Secondheaven

Revision as of 03:13, 1 April 2007

You will notice this list is conspicuously short. It's because by and large we trust you guys not to be BRPS fodder. If you ever ARE BRPS fodder, we will be sure to be forward with you about such fodder. If WE are ever BRPS fodder, we hope that you will come to us and say such.

There is a major rule here in modly handling that I think both Mini and I would like to make clear.

Should you complain to us we will assume your complaint valid.

This means all issues will be heard openly, and firstly, forefrontly, with acceptance. If you are having issues, don't be afraid. We want to make this game as fun and as friendly as possible, and as humans, we screw up too, and often.

Don't be an asshat.

This includes harassing players OOCly, otherwise making life hell, or being entirely intolerable.

Inactivity sweeps will be regular.

If you are playing a Class Prez or a Class Rep, or hell, ANYONE, your character is important. Fall inactive and it's unfair to a lot of people. We have an IC rule to try and protect against this, but your char will befall ICC if the OOC is inactive enough.

If you gotta go any where, just let us know. We'll even concoct your excuse for you if you don't have enough time - you don't even have to let us know personally. Let someone else let us know. But we've got to receive a message. IRL happens and is tons more important than RP, and we respect that, but if there's no contact we can't know what's going on so we can't help you.

ICA=ICC. Period.

If something happens to your char by mod control, it means we felt like you needed an ICC for that ICA. This means In Character Actions = In Character Consequences, and we're pretty big on this. Most of the time the Consequences might not even be bad consequences, but keep in mind we're paying attention.

Mini and Snapple are of the same power level.

Though this seems like a weird sort of rule to write, I want to let you all know even if I'm typing everything Mini and I both contributed equally to all these rules - through several weeks of brainstorming and talking it over and like, 5 hour long discussions of school location, situation, and omg the deal with dorming MAN.

This means there's no such thing as a headmod. Though if there's one mod you're more comfortable with than the other, that's fine, but we operate in tandem, so we'll both have says! Chances are if one or the other does something, the other's approved it!

However, we are also checks and balances for this reason. If I've done something you don't like, you can go to Mini about it, and vice versa. Keep in mind you have to go to one of us though - nothing will change if you stay silent!

Standard RPG rules go here.

Don't godmode. Don't do things major without mod approval. Don't not-consult your fellow players before you cut their char's hair in their sleep.

The 'Hey, it's okay,' Clause

You know, sometimes things bother us for whatever reason. Sometimes someone just gets on your nerves, and you got to go vent. Sometimes you just need to post the longest, most offensive rant in your journal, lambasting everyone. Sometimes you gotta have some sort of back-talkin' window open, schmakin' mcschmaky, just trying to put yourself at ease.

This is actually A-OK. Just don't let it affect who you're playing with and what you're doing, and we're okay. It's healthy to rant sometimes, but don't let it cross the IC line - if your chars are best friends and one (HEY IF YOU'VE READ THIS ON YOUR APPLICATION YOU HAVE TO TYPE: "STU'S A GOOD JANITOR" K? IN THE SUBJECT LINE K THX) suddenly stops talking to them, the mods'll have a say in it if there's no IC reaction. It's not fair to a player to suddenly find themselves isolated with no idea why.

You wouldn't want it, so try not to do it to others.

House-Keeping Rules.

1. Character limit: 5, this includes any teachers.
2. Teacher limit: 1 per player. YOU MUST APP A STUDENT BEFORE YOU APP A TEACHER. All the teachers prelisted will have a student as well! We've precasted some teachers because of their relative power level. Don't take offense if we say no; teachers are very strategic positions.
3. Class Prez: If you have one, don't try to take another, or even another class rep. That's really unfair.
4. Emoticons ARE allowed however excessive emoticonning is not only obnoxious to readers but will be to characters. It's not like, banned or anything, but keep that in mind.
5. Dorms ARE random. No exceptions.
6. Mods don't always have final say. If there's something you really want, argue, but argue WITH US.
7. PG-13. This means: no smut, no extreme hard-core bloody violence, no horribly graphic/triggering situations (*triggering, such as discussing backstory, can be used with accurate flags of "this could be triggering," or something of the ilk). There should be no need for these posts, anyway, but if there are, talk to a mod and we'll see if they're applicable.
8. And finally, if we call something implausible just rewrite! Don't be angry! Don't get on our case! We're human, but this is our game, and we can only handle so much stress outside our day to day lives. We love you. :<