Post by johnny on Jul 28, 2008 12:52:10 GMT -5
:: General Posting Rules ::
Posting MINIMUM of 200 words. We are an intermediate-advanced roleplay community. If you're a member of this community, you can handle 200 words per post. See "Roleplay Tips and Tricks - 200 Words and How to Handle Them" for more info.
Thoughts are in italics. Speech is in quotation marks. You may bold/change the colour of your speech, but you must have quotations as well. If you quote another character, the entire quote must be in italics, or have some way of distinguishing it from your narration.
Third person, past tense narrative ONLY. In your joining post, you may use first person, present tense for creative reasons but during actual gameplay, you are you use third person, past tense:
"Bringing his head round to face the other wolf, Barkface growled."
instead of
"I turn around and growl at you."
instead of
"I turn around and growl at you."
No asterisk actions. None of that *He walked up to Fred and smiled.* Hello! stuff is allowed. Pretend you're writing a book. Goldy walked up to Fred and smiled, "Hello!" he said.
OOC comments are in brackets, parentheses, or otherwise distinguished. No random OOC comments in the middle of your post, please. Put some brackets around it like [OOC: Hey, this is out of character...]
You can teleport. Well, not really - but your character can be in more than one thread - or in more than one roleplay - at any given time. Don't be afraid to do this - it provides more opportunity for roleplay, which makes for a more active community.
:: Fighting and Hunting ::
You control you. You do not control anyone else. If you, Sassifrass, are fighting another character, Remus, YOU CONTROL ONLY THE ACTIONS OF SASSIFRASS. In your post, Remus does not get angry, does not dodge, does not laugh, does not do anything. The most you can do is, within your character's thoughts, assume what Remus might do, how he might react, etc.
You can't dodge more than three times in a row. You have to get hit between the third and fourth turn. Even dodging three times isn't really ideal - I'd prefer if you only dodged once or twice in a row - but three times is the absolute maximum.
Do not leave a fight unhurt. Unless it was arranged OOC between the two players, no wolf is to completely annihilate their opponent without getting a scratch.
No killing without permission. Any deaths without permission between the two players will be wiped from the record. In the post where the character dies, the owner of the character must type an OOC note to me saying that it's legitimate.
Fighting is allowed between all members. For packs, for food, just because two characters don't like each other - it doesn't matter, we're all open game. A reason for the fight isn't necessary, but you must follow the previous fighting rules.
When hunting, lose a few meals. It's more realistic. A wolf does not catch every single thing he is trying to catch, and a dog is probably even less likely to do so.
If it's bigger than a cat, hunt in packs. Wolves and dogs are pack animals for a reason - survival. A single wolf can't bring down a full-grown buck - there are too many points on the antlers, too many legs kicking and running, and too much panic in that animal, even for a professed expert hunter. At least have two.
:: Characters ::
[/center]Wolves, coyotes, and hybrids are automatically allowed. Dogs and foxes are limited, and if you're joining one I have to check things over carefully.
Research the animal you are joining as. Research the average height, average weight, what it eats, how it acts. Wikipedia isn't legitimate for classrooms, but it's perfectly legitimate as a source here on ABF.
This is fantasy. Your character can have streaks of green fur, purple eyes, ear piercings, accessories, and (very limited) magic powers. The only things you can't have are bits and pieces of other animals (tail of a lizard, wings, etc.) This being said, remember that neon-green fur that glows in the dark isn't great camouflage, so use your "highlighter" sparingly.
Magic powers are limited to one out of every three characters, per person. And I want to know I can trust you to roleplay magic properly before I allow you to have them, so the joining post for a character with magic powers is judged much more strictly than that of a regular character.
Balance things out. If the "stats" of the site read that there are twelve Chaotic members and only two Ancestral, try and join more Ancestral or else things get one-sided and the plot makes no sense.
Please limit the "anime inspiration" characters. I really don't want to see a bunch of Kagomes and InuYashas running around, okay? Taking the name is alright - "Kagome" is a real name, after all - but taking characteristics or background stories is not.
Speaking of backgrounds... They're optional. You can reveal bits and pieces of your character as the roleplay goes on, then edit (or have me edit) your character's profile. There will also be a "Post-joining" history of what's happened to your character once it's entered the roleplay - if s/he mated, how many pups s/he had, if s/he is a member of a pack, etc.
This is not America. Or any other place you'd recognise, really. The realm that ABF is based in is not this one - so, no wolves from Japan, England, etc. Whether or not there are alternate-reality equivalents of these places remains to be seen until I develop the settings further.
*** No godmoding.
*** No Mary-Sues.
*** for more details on these two types of character, see "Most Godly Gods and Angelic Beauties" under the "Roleplaying Tips and Tricks" category.
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