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Roleplay Etiquette
You can not roleplay unless your character has been added to the Character Roster. If you need to update your character profile (which isn't required but would be helpful to other roleplayers) you can submit a Character Edit Request Form. Reviewing and adding a submitted character to the Roster can take up to one week or seven days. Maybe longer if there were any issues with the submission form or if the submission breaks our lore.
1. All of your roleplay posts need to follow our Terms of Service. Breaking the Terms of Service in roleplay posts will grant you the same consequences listed in Fair Usage.
2. We have a word count requirement for replies on our roleplays. This isn't anything personal, it is just so the roleplayers involved are reassured to have enough material to give you a valid response in return. Our current minimum is 85 words and there is no maximum - though please be courteous of others involved! We've a plugin that counts all words at the bottom of our text box for your convenience.
3-A. You need to state where your character will be located at the top of your first post or indicate somewhere in it where you are (until you move to a different location). This makes it so characters in the same/similar area can easily find and socialize with yours and eases up confusion later on.
Here you can see where Morroia Opari is located within the bakery.
3-B. If you plan on moving your character to a new thread for your next post, you will need to include a link (to the thread that you are moving to) on your current post, at the bottom of it. Once your character has been moved, for your first post in the new thread, you need to include the link to the previous thread at the top of your post. This allows people to know where you're coming from to create a new opportunity for interaction or if you're leaving to avoid others accidentally trying to communicate with your character that isn't there anymore.
From: Streets of Urukgar is a direct link to the Streets of Urukgar thread, using the Link button and using the URL of the thread.
This is where Morroia is going to, this time made without the Link button and instead directly posted the URL of the thread.
4. Roleplaying more than one character is allowed but please make sure your responses are kept orderly so we're able to tell the two apart, either by posting individual paragraphs for each one and/or putting a divider between the two. We want to be able to give every character the attention they deserve.
admin/Eerie is now roleplaying two characters within the same thread, including them in the same post.
5. We have a no-tolerance policy concerning god-modding and/or meta-gaming. This includes but is not limited to:
- Creating a character so powerful that they cannot lose in a fight, receive damage in a fight, and deal strong/fatal damage to others.
- Not allowing other participants to reply to your responses, often answering on their behalf for their character's movements or fate.
- Using information you obtained outside of a roleplay to determine your character's actions.
Please allow for everyone to post their own reactions and attacks at their own pace, only use information provided through roleplay, and if you have any questions about the possibilities of an attack coming in contact: Communicate amongst each other until a mutual agreement is made! We have a Discord and even Private Messages on the forums for this purpose.
6. If you feel as if your character is not attracting much attention to themselves, be sure to be a bit more creative with your responses as it might help! Examples could be showing off their personality traits, skills, or using any animal companions as plot devices if your character happens to have any of them. If you feel as if your character is being ignored due to problems caused out-of-character, please contact a Disciplinarian!
7. We have a turn-order. If you're just joining an on-going thread, please be sure to not the current ongoing order. If you're unsure of where you place may be, consult with the current participants of the thread before submitting any responses. Everyone has a maximum of 3 Days to post within a thread until they are skipped. Once skipped, they're allowed to post any time it is a convenience to them and without any repercussions.
8. If you need to leave any roleplays at any time, be sure to notify the participants involved and make sure you make up a permissible excuse for your character's temporary or permanent leave as a final post to the roleplay before removing yourself. This doesn't require killing off your character but please keep in mind any characters that die will (for now) remain dead in any plotlines as this forum doesn't not include AUs (Alternate Universes or Timelines).
9. Any out-of-character discussion is to be kept out of the roleplay threads! We have our Discord and Private Messages for any OOC discussion regarding roleplay. Please keep in mind our Terms of Service as you post. If you feel the need to tack something on, like if someone isn't online or you don't know who the person is or even if it's just showing you have permission to godmod somebody's character, keep it short and to the point!
10. You can decorate your posts to your hearts content. Just keep the Terms of Service in mind.
Warning: Large images or high quality images tend to cause forum and thread lag so please be aware of that when decorating your forum posts! If your post is edited with any images altered or removed, please know that it is nothing personal and it's just to ensure that our forums are running as smoothly as possible.
There are two different publicly available (to an extent) discords that can be roleplayed on. There is T-DEra+, meant for 18 and up members and T-DEra Patreon, for our patrons. A few of our Terms of Service rules can be broken within T-DEra+ and our T-DEra Patreon members have the ability to roleplay with lore that is either being currently worked on has yet to be released (depending on the tier they are donating to).