Post by Beetlestar on Aug 26, 2014 23:45:17 GMT
The General Forum Rules
OOC Rules
BE RESPECTFUL TO EVERYONE;
No Flaming, No Trolling, No Bullying, so on. If we catch any of this or are reported of it w/proof of such, you will be banned.
No Art theft. Period. Any of this will result in a permanent ban with no exceptions.
Swearing is allowed. Human-swears are allowed for loners/rogues/kittypets only. [Clan cats should only use them if they have a loner/rogue/whatever that socializes with them a LOT, lives with them and/or joined them and happened to learn them.]
If I see any non-joke chatspeak, I will eat your face.
NO ADVERTISING in any non-advertising board. Please keep your websites to the guest-friendly advertising area.
More-to-be-added
.:IC Rules:.
While not a 100% forced rule, we DO prefer if you use Ailuronymy's way of Traditional Naming.
You should only have ONE high-ranked character a time;
These "High ranked" characters include;
Leader
Deputy
Medicine Cat
No Dark-Forest/Starclan cats should be made as personal characters. Only Leaders and Medicine Cats will use the "Ancestors" list in the Clan as NPCs and only for becoming leader/med cat and/or dreams.
When your character dies, they DIE. You can make a new character similar to said dead character, but it cannot be exactly the same. This is to avoid "Rebirth" plots or "rebirth" issues in general.
NO Godmodding, NO Powerplay, NO Mary/Gary Sues, NO WOLFSPEAK. NO MYSTICAL POWERS, ETC.
NO pregnant apprentices WHATSOEVER. NO EXCEPTIONS. This goes for staff and members alike.
NO "FORBIDDEN" LOVES WILL HAPPEN W/O STAFF PERMISSION. This is to keep the already-shaken loyalties from being completely destroyed.
NO UNREALISTIC accessories. This includes and is not limited too; jewelry, saddles, shirts, pants, shoes, metallic earrings, necklaces, socks, muffs, cuffs AND SO ON.
Accepted Accessories;
Collars
-More may be added IF we find realistic items.-
NO TRESPASSING w/o the Clan leader's or Deputy's OOC permission. (Deputy must inform Leader of his/her choice of this.)
Preferably, no unnatural colors. This rule is subject to change.
KITTYPETS/LONERS/ROGUES /MUST/ TAKE A WARRIOR NAME. It is of absolute DISRESPECT to the Warrior code and your CLAN when you REFUSE to take a WARRIOR name. If your kittypet/loner/rogue character refuses a clan, they may or will be subject to various social and duty issues. Some cats may avoid them completely and some deputies could completely ignore the cat when it comes calling for duty.
^Punishments and such will depend on the Clan.
IF your cat has been born into the Clan BEFORE getting their Warrior-name(such as, you make a kit or you make an apprentice.), please allow the Leader to set your warrior name when the character is of ceremonial age. Yes, you may ask the leader to name your cat something, but it will still up to the leader to choose the name. They WILL NOT be reprimanded for NOT choosing the name YOU wanted. They will choose a name that BEST suits your cat's SKILLS AND/OR other things.
(Such as your cat is amazingly handsome or absolutely hideous, he'd get -face for a suffix. Usually used for prettiness.)
REALISTIC PELT AND EYES ONLY. No blue, green, red, etc cats please.
This also means that if your cat has a majority of white/pure white with blue eyes, your cat WILL have hearing issues or other issues that go along with it. There should NOT be a NUMEROUS amount of solid-white cats within the clans or else there could be possible health issues. However this will ONLY be enforced if the LEADER of said clan wishes to enforce it.
NO SEXUAL CONTENT IN ROLEPLAY OR PM. This is against Proboard's Terms of Services.
This does not include minor sexual content, in other words, if your two cats wanna go make babies, make it fade to black or take it OFF-SITE COMPLETELY.
NO SUICIDAL OR SELF-HARMING CATS WITHOUT SPECIFIC AND GOOD REASONS.
Your cat's whole clan just died? Yeah you have a pretty good reason to be THAT depressed. Otherwise, just...no..Theres no need to throw your cat into the river for no reason at all.
There is currently NO character limits. However it is preffered that you only have 1-2 characters at most in each Clan. This rule will be enforced or not be enforced depending on the Clan's Leader.
PLEASE DO NOT USE NAME-CHANGE SUFFIXES/NAMES WITHOUT A DISTINCT AND/OR MAJOR INJURY/SITUATION/ETC.
Such as Tatteredear has a single scar on his ear. Yeah..So tattered. -.- Or Clawface has a single claw-mark across his nose.
No, if you want a name-change according to injury, the injury must have been intense enough for the cat to have possibly not even survived it;
I.E: Lostface and Crookedjaw's injuries were significant enough for the name-changes.
NO RANDOM RAPING/FORCE-MATE/ETC. You MUST MUST AND MUST ask permission for this from your LEADER and the cat you wish to force-mate.
CATS DO NOT HAVE TO BE MATES TO HAVE KITS. Yes, we don't care if you wanna have a one-night stand to have kits. You gave our clans more warriors, yay!
LITTERS WILL HAVE A KITTEN LIMIT; A realistic and normal limit would be about 4-6 kittens. We'd like it if you'd ask permission to have more than 6 in one litter so that the clans do not overpopulate but so much.
Starvation, thirst, birth effects, illness, etc can easily kill any kitten, do not be afraid to let a kit die from the litter. It happens a lot with feral cats.