Complete Rules list

General Rules

1) Under no circumstances, for any reason WHATSOEVER, is anyone to make derogatory comments about another's race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, dog, cat or any other personal trait whatsoever.

This is not a joke. If anyone makes any such comment about you, take a screen shot (simply press the "print screen" button, then look in your My Documents\Neverwinternights 2\ folder to find the pic) and send it to me and the offender will be banned forth with, no questions asked.

Again this is not a joke. What you may see as an innocent comment could seriously insult another. If in doubt, Don't Do It! you ~WILL~ be banned, no questions asked.

Class Rules
You are only allowed to have one base class and two prestige classes on Dragonlance, Age of Despair. For the purposes of this rule classes associated with specific guilds do not count, i.e. any of the Knight classes or order of high sorcery classes do not count.

Guild Rules

You are only allowed to have one character in any guild at any time. We have thought hard about this and the we have come to settle on this rule because we feel that it is best for the overall RP of the server. There are many servers out there where people play many characters in many guilds and in the end you end up with a lot of members in some mediocre guilds rather than a a few people in strong, dynamic and interesting guilds.

Honestly we would like it if everyone choose to play only one character. This makes for a much richer world. However we certainly will not limit the number of character you are allowed to play on the server; and of course we realize it often takes a while to really get the feel for the type of character one wishes to play on a new server.

Pick Pocket

Pick pocket is allowed on this server but we expect you to be fair with it. Chain pickpocketing and stealing more than one or two items at most from another player will be considered griefing.

You ARE allowed to pick pocket the dead. Its considered looting a corpse and if you choose to lay there waiting for help instead of re-spawning please don't complain to us that you were pick pocketed while you waited.

Role Play

This might seem like and odd section for rules. And indeed we do not intend to limit you RP much, as long as it makes sense given the setting. The best thing to do is read a little of the history available on the site to help you get an idea on how the world works.

1) Keep all OOC (out of character) chat to the Tell channel. Do not speak OCC in the public "talk" channel at all. This can ruin the experience for other players. If you really must have a discussion OOC with multiple at once (and so the Tell Channel is insufficient, please go to the OOC lounge area, which you can teleport to from most inns and taverns.

2) Meta-gaming is not tolerated under ANY circumstances. Meta-gaming is the when your PC acts with the knowledge that the player (you) has and he/she does not. For example, you are in a party and you see the skull icon, or sword icon appear in the box of an ally in your party. Knowing this means they are dead, or in a fight respectively, you hover your mouse over their portrait and head to the location they are in to aid them.

There is no way your character could have such knowledge and to act as if they do is meta-gaming. We don't want to hear anything about how your characters have some mind link, or bound souls or other such justification. Your character does NOT have any abilities that their class does not normally posses unless you have cleared it with a DM in advance.

PvP

This is a Role Playing server. That being said, we do not take the normal view
towards PvP that one might consider typical of a heavy RP server. We feel that PvP is an integral part of the RP experience in this kind of setting. After one has killed all the monsters, completed all the quests and explored most of the world, some are not content to sit around in a tavern in the fashion of a glorified chat room. That is why this server is heavily faction based. The idea is that once you have chosen to join a faction (or fight against the established order) there is bound to be conflict; and we feel this is a good thing. It keeps the world interesting with challenging nemeses.
Anyhow, with that being said, this is NOT an arena or action server. Therefore there are some basic rules that must be adhered to by anyone choosing to engage in PvP, and they are as follows:
1) First and foremost ALL PvP will follow from RP. You do not have the right to go around killing anyone you want just because you can. There must be some valid, in game, reason your PC chose to attack another PC.

However it is important to remember that just because you were not privy to someone else's RP that may have led up to you being attacked, doesn't mean it did not happen. Someone else may very well have payed them, or instigated them in some way to attack you; always keep that in mind before you go accusing someone of unfair play.

Also it is important to remember that there are consequences for your actions. If you choose to play a level 10 fighter that thinks he is the cat's meow and goes around insulting others, don't be surprised when anther PC calls you on it and humbles you in a blaze of mystic fire.

2) You must always set your target to hostile before you engage them. There is no exception to this rule, period. Furthermore if you plan to aid another PC that is engaged in PvP you must set the PC they are engaged with to hostile, even if you don't plan on taking any offensive actions.

3) Griefing is strictly forbidden. Griefing is the act of continuously attacking or harassing another PC. You may not re-engage a PC you have previously fought in PvP for one hour real time after the incident. That applies to both parties, winner and looser.

4) When you have died as a result of PvP you are to RP the fact that your character has NO memory whatsoever of the incident and has lost all memory of the 30 minuets REAL TIME leading up to the incident. Retaliating on someone who, in effect, has killed you is poor form and a form of meta-gaming; which is not tolerated at all on this server. There are no excuses for ignoring this rule, the spirit that returns you the the material world reminds you of it every time!

5) Though not PvP proper...please don't kill the NPCs without a very valid RP rational...it can cause headaches for the other players if the NPC they need is dead. When in doubt...just don't do it...

PG-13 Play

Your RP on this server will remain PG-13 always. You will not RP Rape under any circumstances ever or you will been Banned. You will not RP anything of a sexual nature EVER or you will be Banned. WE may have players under 18 here and if you ever break this final rule you will be banned and we will turn your IP information over to the authorities.