Roleplay & Etiquette
We welcome ALL roleplayers of EVERY style, prose & experience. With this in mind, we’ve established an etiquette that is common to most roleplaying sims.
Do
Follow post order to the best of your ability.
Wait your turn when joining an on-going scene.
Post in if you wish to be considered part of the scene and able to use what you’ve read. If you do not post into a scene, any information used will be considered META!
Give other players a reasonable amount of time to respond, especially during para-rp.
Do Not
Assume what you see is what the reality of the scene is.
Negative thought emote without adding the accompanying body language or nonverbal cues.
Instigate conflict and then walk out of chat range before anyone can respond to you.
Avoid consequences by logging, teleporting, or otherwise using (Out of Character) means to escape.
Enter a scene by immediately posting. Wait for one rotation before posting in.
Ignore a player’s LIMITS!
Ignore another player’s roleplay.
Force, bully or coerce a player to RP even though they’ve invoked their right to (Fade to Black).
Metagame; this means using (Out of Character) knowledge (In Character).
Examples; camming, IMs, reading tags.
Godmode; this means controlling another’s RP response, action, or avatar during a scene.
Excessive Powergaming; ie Mary Sue | Gary Stu
Manipulating your own character’s abilities, powers or skills so that you always have an advantage in every situation. Staff will call you out on this.
Remember Safety! Everyone has the right to (Fade to Black); this means that the RP was skipped but the consequences and/or results will continue as if you wrote the scene out. Please do your best to respect the limits of others’ (Out of Character) as long as they are reasonable and not invoked to escape conflict that they, themselves have initiated.
AI Use Specifically
The use of AI is meant to aid players, not replace the actual art of writing. We wish to preserve not only the quality in story telling but immersion. With this in mind, we’ve established further etiquette that will be the standard here in RoD.
Allowed
For brainstorming plot hooks and scene ideas
Outlining a scene you will write yourself
Organizing notes, timelines and / or plot logs
Helping in phrasing OOC tickets and summaries cleanly
Spell check and finding synonyms or tightening wording as you write
Not Allowed
Write your backstories for applications
Write your posts or letters
Treated as final drafts that you intend to copy & paste
Those in Featured & Lead Roles found using AI to write their stories here will be removed from the role and not allowed to apply for a new similar role till trust with Staff is reinstated. Remember we hold those in these roles at a higher standard.
Anything found written using AI will not be accepted for Role / Story validation, Story Requests, or Story Progression.
Repeated or deliberate violations of this may result in a ban from the sim.