General Rules

[Fireheart 2777]

General

 

The abuse of glitches or any exploits are not tolerated.

 

Excessive trolling or use of 'memes' in roleplay are disallowed.

 

Hostile and Toxic behavior, directed any anyone or on any medium, will not be tolerated.

All roleplay on LoTC must abide by server lore. Lore can be found on the Wiki or Forum lore section. You cannot play as a race that is not lore-approved, and you require LM/MAT approval for races not a part of the Dwarves, Elves, Humans, Kha, or Orcs. If you wish to add lore to LoTC, it must be submitted and approved before it can be played.

 

Your skin must be an RP-friendly representation of your character. Obscene, offensive, or non-rp skins are not allowed. There are many skin-makers on the Forums who are happy to provide skins for new players. The use of a skin created by another player without their consent is considered plagiarism, and is disallowed.

 

You must remain In-Character at all times when in-game. If you need to speak out of character, do so in private messages (via /t <playername>) or local OOC chat (via starting your message with "((")

 

Your characters cannot interact with each other in any way. The one exception is that you may play the child of your character.

 

Metagaming is disallowed in its entirety. Metagaming is the use of information in roleplay that your character does not know. An example would be rallying troops to aid a friend even though your character would have no way to know he's in trouble.

 

Powergaming is disallowed in its entirety. Powergaming is forcing your emotes on another character. An example being the emote "John swings his sword at Tom, cutting his arm" where the emote forces the effect on the other player. An acceptable emote would be "John swings his sword at Tom, aiming to cut his arm." since the other player would be able to react to the emote.

 

If you die in roleplay, your character will not remember the events leading up to the death. Waking up knowing who killed you is metagaming. You also may not return to the site of your death for thirty minutes (Unless it was your character's home).

 

Do not change your username to anything vulgar, inflammatory, or offensive to other players on LoTC. Accounts breaking this rule will be banned for thirty days - The period of time that Mojang requires before another change can occur.

 

Impersonation of a Player or Staff Member, on any medium, will not be tolerated.

 

OOCly lying or otherwise deceiving players for your own gain is not allowed, however you may do so to (and only to) prevent being metagamed. An example in this case being if you are attempting to trick somebody IC, you don’t have to tell the truth if they ask OOCly about your plans.

 

"Cyber-bullying", through repeated harassment or any other means will not be tolerated. Those partaking in or promoting such will be severely punished.

 

Accounts may not be shared between players in any circumstance. Actions taken by your account will be treated as though they were taken by you as a player. In the event of a hacked account, please contact a moderator or administrator. If an account is traded between players, the final 'owner' must be the only one with access and all personas and items will be removed.

 

Hack-Clients, mods, or texture packs that provide an advantage are completely disallowed. Approved mods include:

 

Schematica, More Player Models, InventoryTweaks,  Damage Indicators, Aesthetic Mods, as well as Autofish (Provided you are actively rping during use).

 

If GM assistance is required, please make a modreq instead of a message. Only message a GM in urgent situations needing immediate aid.

 

Moderator verdicts are final. Do not press the issue or go to another moderator if such a verdict is unfavorable to you.

 

There are no GM refunds on lost items. If you die anywhere in the map, you will not have items respawned. /bread is a helpful command to help you get back on your feet, though!

 

Anything that can be done by players via donor perks or professions will not be done by GMs. If you need one of these services - like locks, gates, enchanting, or soulstone pillars, you must seek out a player with access. Note that event items are an exception to this.

 

The use of alternate personas purely for additional skills on one character is forbidden. Any character with multiple personas tied to its name will have the duplicates deleted without regard to any professions or items.

 

Having a persona with the race set to one other than the character's actual race is not allowed. The same applies to age and gender. Having it written in your biography, or having your biography go against what your card's properties are is not allowed. Any character card that does not match the character will be deleted without regard to any professions or items.

 

If you opt to permanently kill your character, you (in most cases) have seven days to decide to reverse the action. Once those seven days are over, the character can not be revived. Note that, with the exception of suicide or staff decision, you can not be forced to kill a character. However, if you explicitly state that you've PKed under any of the following situations, you are not allowed to bring back the character, even in those even days. Those situations are:

 

If your character commits suicide, he or she is permanently killed. This is also the case if you use knowledge of the monks to disregard the threat of death - If you're about to die and roleplay along the lines of "Kill me, I'll just be revived", you will have to PK. Note that ultimately, this is a staff decision. Attempting to force or trick another player into breaking this rule will be punished.

 

Explicit sexual roleplay is not permitted. If sex (or other graphic actions) occur in roleplay, use "Fade To Black" to pass over the details. FTB actions require both IC and OOC consent. Sexual FTB can not be done with more than three members of the five main races (Not event creatures!). Brothels and prostitution are disallowed, as well as Rape, involvement with a character under 18, bestiality, or necrophilia.