In order to provide the best online gaming experience possible, the
following guidelines and rules have been provided. While OpenRoleplaying.org
believes that its members can handle online gaming as reasonable adults,
these rules are here to protect you, your peers, and our visitors.
The following sections outline the rules and guidelines for the
OpenRoleplaying.org Gameboard. These
rules do not apply to any Chat-based games. Please
read these rules and guidelines before participating in any games.
If there are any questions or concerns about these rules or guidelines,
or if you have comments or suggestions, please contact the Gameboard Moderator,
BlackFog.
All general site policies must be
followed on this board.
In order to create a new game or post to an existing game, you
must be a member of the OpenRoleplaying.org community. We do this so
we can better prevent unknown users from disrupting a game. If you are
not yet a member, click here to join.
A member should refrain
from posting to any game to which he has not been invited or has not joined
by making other arrangements with the GM.
Games should be created by the game's Game Master (or
whatever he's called in the game you're playing). The GM
has full moderator privileges over his game and is required to police his
game for site policy abuses and to maintain
game continuity. The GM of the game has complete power over his game, subject
to site policies, the Gameboard Moderator, and
any site administrators. In the event arbitration is required between a player
and a game's GM, contact the Gameboard Moderator,
BlackFog.
In the event the game you're playing does not have a GM, one member
of the group should be designated the GM for the purposes of moderating your
game on the site.
The GM is responsible for posting any specific game guidelines,
disclaimers, warnings, or notes on the game's Introduction page. This page can
be edited by clicking the appropriate button at the top of any of the game's
posts, if you are the game's GM.
Any game, using any system, with any number of players, can be played on
the Gameboard; the methods through which the game is played (dice rolling,
handing IC vs. OC actions, etc.) is up to the GM.
It is suggested you use the
OpenRoleplaying.org Die Roller for dice rolls on
the board. You can have the Die Roller
e-mail appropriate parties the results of your rolls, and it has a confirmation
feature to allow a GM to check rolls for validity. For your convienience, a
Die Roller button has been placed on all posts in
active games.
Discussions about and planning for games should be conducted in the
Online Gaming discussion forum and
not on the game board directly. However, the GM should feel free to make any
GM-level announcements on his game's board.
Similarly, private conversations between players (not characters) should
be conducted offline or in e-mail to prevent disrupting the game unless the GM states
otherwise The Online Gaming discussion
forum can also be used for this purpose.
It is not acceptable to steal character ideas or story ideas from other sources.
Derivation is one thing; blatant theft will not be tolerated.
NOTICE: These rules are subject to change. Check back here regularly for
changes to the board's guidelines.
