Post by Kale on Oct 7, 2011 3:27:28 GMT -5
Welcome to Sun and Shadows! We are glad to have you here, but there are some things you need to know before becoming a member:
GENERAL RULES
ROLEPLAY RULES
CHARACTER RULES[/i]
GENERAL RULES
- No profanity or swearing, please. Keep in mind the diversity of MLP's fanbase.
- No spam-posting in the boards or in the cbox, especially for the sake of increasing your post count. Doing so can, and will, result in either post deletion or further punishment.
- Be polite to each other; nobody likes a jerk.
- Do your best to remain active. If you're going to be gone for over 3 days, please mention so in the absences board. At the very least, try to post no less than once a week.
- Please don't use signatures or post templates that stretch the site format; aside from taking a long time to load, they ruin the look of the site.
ROLEPLAY RULES
- Sun and Shadows is an intermediate roleplay. This means your posts MUST be written in proper, third-person, past-tense English. pSots liek thiss arenot ackseptable. We understand that writing is harder for some than for others, but at the least, have proper grammar and spelling.
- One-liners are not allowed. Even in the grips of writer's block, you should be able to knock out at least a 150-word post. Anything substantially below this, and you will be asked to revise the post.
- No power-playing or god-moding. This means you cannot take control of another person's characters, nor can you make yours act invincible. Get consent before you do something like, say, knocking down somebody's character--but don't take this as an excuse to never give that consent yourself, or a thread is likely to devolve into an endless stream of one-ups.
- As in the general site rules, no profanity and no swearing. These things don't appear in the show, and as such have no place here, either. Nor should there be excessive violence or gore.
CHARACTER RULES[/i]
- At present, members are allowed a maximum of 4 canon characters, with only 1 of the Mane Six. (For example, you could take Rarity and Braeburn, but not Rarity and Fluttershy.)
- You can take up to eight characters total.
- If you're going to apply for a canon character, make sure you're able to keep posting regularly--if you don't post with one for three weeks (without having an announced absence beforehand), they will be available for applications once again. NOTE: this doesn't mean you've lost them and have to reapply, it simply means others can apply for them. If you post before that happens, the character will once again be solely yours.
- If a certain kind of pony becomes too popular at the expense of other kinds (i.e. all pegasus ponies and no earth ponies), we reserve the right to restrict further applications for that kind.
- Each character you play should be on a separate account.
- If you have over three characters, you must play at least one villain. (This includes characters possessed by the Darkness; though those technically fall under 'Shadow Ponies' and not 'Evil Ponies.')
- Further rules/comments on character applications can be found in that section of the site.