Post by MONKIES?! Explain. on Oct 5, 2005 14:41:16 GMT -5
( Most important rule: Follow the Proboards TOS!! )
1. Aang is the Avatar unless it's an into the future roleplay. Also, no more than one Avatar.
2. Airbenders are allowed, aslong as you explain how they managed to survive the wipe out of the other Airbenders. Please, No ICATLAFARMPs about this. If you don't know what an ICATLAFARMP is, It's a word we've made up which stands for 'It's Called Avatar The Last Airbender For A Reason Mean People'. Don't spoil our fun. Mike and Bryan even said it could be possible that some airbenders managed to survive. I have a few ways how they could've myself;
-Some of the airbenders had probably gone off on something perhaps like a vacation. Maybe newly marriaged airbenders off on their honeymoon, only to find the Air Temple had been wiped out. So they could've hid off someone less populated away from the Fire Nation and keep their airbending identities unrevealed. They decided having children wouldn't be a good idea, since they would be at risk running from the Fire Nation. They worried it would be a horrible life. But it just so happened that decision was too late since the female airbender had already managed to get pregnant before they found out about the Fire Nation attack. As the child grew up, they attempted their best to keep their child away from everyone else. But it made the child rebelious, causing them to runaway from home, falls inlove, Gets married, and after those years, the child finally returns to their parents with their partner to find out they were parents-to-be. And that's when the parents reveal that they're all airbenders. Dun dun duuun. owo
- During the Fire Nation invading the Air Nation, they could have captured the airbenders just as they did to the Southern Water Tribe. Especially since it was the Avatar they were looking for. They probably captured each airbender to find out which was the Avatar. Somehow they escape or maybe they were let go because the Fire Nation found them to be completely useless. They probably paid more attention to the female airbenders than male since the last airbender as the Avatar was a female. So most males were probably let out easily, unless they seemed like a threat. So most females might've dressed as men to escape.
3. No Godmoding, Powerplaying, etc. In other words, we don't want you killing or harming others characters without their consent. We also don't want you to act as if you're immortal. Exp.
BAD: He swung his fist at his face, punching him as hard as it could and killed him.
GOOD: He swung his fist at his face, intending to strike a punch.
BAD: The punch had no effect on him. He struck his sword straight through the other, instantly killing him.
GOOD: He didn't expect the punch. He stopped for a second, putting a hand over his cheek as if it were a way to soothe the pain. Soon after, he drew his sword and slashed an attack at him, intending to hit his side.
4. Literacy does /not/ matter. We don't care wether or not you make 2035729357 million posts or one setence. Just aslong as you follow the rules
5. Making fun of others is strictly forbidden. For example, don't make fun of someone for liking some kind of music or show, etc. No making fun of someone for how they roleplay who how their character is. Etc. Etc.
6. Homosexuality is permitted here. I don't care about your opinion on them. If you don't like it, don't come here.
7. This goes for all straight/bisexual/gay/lesbian/etc. We don't want to see any detailed sex scenes on the boards. If you're going to, keep it in Private Messages, please.
8. If you feel ignored, please Private Message me. Don't just threaten to leave the site. It only causes more trouble.
9. I don't want to see a bunch of people ganging up on just one person. It's exceptional like say for example; Aang's gang is fighting Azula. Just take turns at throwing attacks. We don't want people jumping out and attacking at once. It's stressful on the Azula roleplayer.
10. The limit to the bending powers you can have is two, unless you're Aang. Made-up bending types are allowed if they're reasonable. Exp. Shadowbending, lightbending, etc.
11. No Aang relatives like a sibiling, or cousin, etc. Zuko and Azula are exceptions considering their Mother, Ursula, was the granddaughter of Avatar Roku I do believe.
12. No OC fiance's, wives/husbands, girlfriend/boyfriends to any of the main characters. An exception would be, say, someone was roleplaying Zuko while you roleplayed an OC. If the person roleplaying Zuko allows Zuko and your OC to fall inlove, become a fiance' of, get married, girlfriend/boyfriend, etc. It's fine with me. But don't end up forcing someone whose roleplaying a main character into it.
Also, Don't roleplay the main character and your OC and have them going out. That takes the fun out of roleplaying.
13. Cursing is allowed, aslong as you don't abuse it. Saying something as simple as 'Damn' or 'Shit' is fine. But don't go off saying every bad word in the book in one sentence.
14. If your feeling ignored, don't end up trying to get your character killed to get attention. If you want attention, try having your character walk up and talk to others.
15. Don't be in one place like a town and suddenly be in the forest the next. Let's say your character is talking to someone in the town. But somewhere far off people are fighting. Your character can't possibly know that there is a fight going on. The main point of this; Please get to know your characters and everyone elses surroundings. Not all of them are in the same area.
16. Unless you're roleplaying an entire Fire Nation fleet, you're not allowed to destroy villages. Also, your Fire Nation fleet must have a good reason to do this. Exp.
Good: The Avatar was spotted in the village in disguise.
Bad: Your OC character is somehow so more important to the Fire Nation than the Avatar and they're trying to kill them.
Good: A group of OCs, has to be four, that are wanted were spotted in the towns.
Bad: The Fire Nation magically knows the Avatar is in the village even though nobody spotted him without a disguise.
17. Please kept your love for detailing blood and gore in fighting to a minimum considering there are people who will get queezy even just by reading it.
18. You cannot change anything about a main character. This goes for making Aang gay and inlove with Zuko or something. Fanfiction is an exception. But in roleplaying, none of that. I don't have anything against homosexuality, but I do have something against altering a characters personality.
19. No shipping wars. No 'Ewww! Zutara/Katang/etc.'. I could care less if you hate cannon shipping. I could less if you think Zutara is so obviously not going to happen. I could care less if you hate straight pairings or homosexual pairings. It upsets alot of us how much people will act as if they're better than everyone else because of the pairing they like. Liking a pairing that nobody else likes may seem to you to be open minded, but to me it's just ignorance. So please, I don't want to here anyone saying their shipping is best.
20. If you're angry with someone, You could Private Message me and I'll try to be able to help the problem. But I don't want to see any 'I hate that person. Ban them please.' If you think they deserved to be banned, give me real reasons. Which means no 'He's stupid and mean.'. Tell me what they did that made them so 'stupid and mean'. Be more specific. I'll try to help you out the best I can.
21. No begging to be apart of the staff. We don't have many members yet. But when we do, then we'll think about hiring new staff members to help us out.
22. Your siggys and icons can be of shipping. But if it's an offending picture, You'll be asked to have to take it down.
23. If you create a roleplay, you may make your own rules. BUT. You must also follow mine. But you can make rules like 'No one liners' if literacy is a must for you. Or you can say 'No airbenders other than Aang' if that's a must for you too. But I don't want to see any conflict about it.
24. You character cannot be a demon/monster/half animal/vampire/witch/etc. If anything, you could be a spirit. But most of the time, Spirits remain in the spirit realm. ( It's reasonable unless you make it into your advantage and say 'oh, but i'm this which is so much more stronger than bending' and make yourself seem so "badass" which really just makes you a jackass. So please, choose what you say wisely. )
25. As you know with the animals on Avatar, they're mixed species. Except for Bosco whose just a bear. They all found it weird that it was just a bear. So if your character has a pet dog, or a cat, etc., It's going to be considered as unusual in the Avatar world. If you don't want that, try being more creative. A rabbit fox, or Racoon dog, or just whatever you think of.
26. Try to keep in with with the time period in Avatar. Most of everything we have in life today hasn't been invented yet in that time period for a looong time. So I don't want to see an earthbender girl with a band T-shirt and contacts or big wide baggy pants with chains and converse shoes carrying an iPod and her cellphone. Not unless we're in a Future RP where our characters are in the Modern World instead and in highschool. Most of the women in Avatar were a robe like dress so try to consider the fashion they had then.Women probably are looked down apon as a disgrace to women if they didn't wear a dress back then. ( This doesn't mean your female character cannot wear pants. Go ahead and wear pants, doesn't bother me any. )
27. If you were in a roleplay on a board, but you don't respond in three days, I'll Private Message you telling you that you need to reply. If you still don't reply for another three days, You will be automatically booted from the roleplay so the rest can continue. An exception can be made for others who are grounded or on vacation, etc.
28.Try to be creative with your character's names. No names like Josh, Katie, Amanda, etc. Most of the characters in Avatar have Japanese or Chinese names. Try looking names and meanings of the names on www.20000-names.com ( Kind've a silly rule. I know it's hard to think of names. But atleast try your best to be creative. )
More rules will be added as I find problems. If there's ever a rule update, I will Private Message everyone about it.
It's a 3-chance thing. If you fail to follow the rules once, I'll give you a warning. If you fail to follow them a second time, I'll be more strict on my warning. If you fail for the third time I will temporarily suspend you. When you come back and I still see you breaking the rules, I will ban you on the spot. If you take advantage of these three chances, I won't hold back to suspend or ban you.
Thank you for reading. If you agree to accept these rules, you may now begin to roleplay and enjoy the rest of the site. ^^
1. Aang is the Avatar unless it's an into the future roleplay. Also, no more than one Avatar.
2. Airbenders are allowed, aslong as you explain how they managed to survive the wipe out of the other Airbenders. Please, No ICATLAFARMPs about this. If you don't know what an ICATLAFARMP is, It's a word we've made up which stands for 'It's Called Avatar The Last Airbender For A Reason Mean People'. Don't spoil our fun. Mike and Bryan even said it could be possible that some airbenders managed to survive. I have a few ways how they could've myself;
-Some of the airbenders had probably gone off on something perhaps like a vacation. Maybe newly marriaged airbenders off on their honeymoon, only to find the Air Temple had been wiped out. So they could've hid off someone less populated away from the Fire Nation and keep their airbending identities unrevealed. They decided having children wouldn't be a good idea, since they would be at risk running from the Fire Nation. They worried it would be a horrible life. But it just so happened that decision was too late since the female airbender had already managed to get pregnant before they found out about the Fire Nation attack. As the child grew up, they attempted their best to keep their child away from everyone else. But it made the child rebelious, causing them to runaway from home, falls inlove, Gets married, and after those years, the child finally returns to their parents with their partner to find out they were parents-to-be. And that's when the parents reveal that they're all airbenders. Dun dun duuun. owo
- During the Fire Nation invading the Air Nation, they could have captured the airbenders just as they did to the Southern Water Tribe. Especially since it was the Avatar they were looking for. They probably captured each airbender to find out which was the Avatar. Somehow they escape or maybe they were let go because the Fire Nation found them to be completely useless. They probably paid more attention to the female airbenders than male since the last airbender as the Avatar was a female. So most males were probably let out easily, unless they seemed like a threat. So most females might've dressed as men to escape.
3. No Godmoding, Powerplaying, etc. In other words, we don't want you killing or harming others characters without their consent. We also don't want you to act as if you're immortal. Exp.
BAD: He swung his fist at his face, punching him as hard as it could and killed him.
GOOD: He swung his fist at his face, intending to strike a punch.
BAD: The punch had no effect on him. He struck his sword straight through the other, instantly killing him.
GOOD: He didn't expect the punch. He stopped for a second, putting a hand over his cheek as if it were a way to soothe the pain. Soon after, he drew his sword and slashed an attack at him, intending to hit his side.
4. Literacy does /not/ matter. We don't care wether or not you make 2035729357 million posts or one setence. Just aslong as you follow the rules
5. Making fun of others is strictly forbidden. For example, don't make fun of someone for liking some kind of music or show, etc. No making fun of someone for how they roleplay who how their character is. Etc. Etc.
6. Homosexuality is permitted here. I don't care about your opinion on them. If you don't like it, don't come here.
7. This goes for all straight/bisexual/gay/lesbian/etc. We don't want to see any detailed sex scenes on the boards. If you're going to, keep it in Private Messages, please.
8. If you feel ignored, please Private Message me. Don't just threaten to leave the site. It only causes more trouble.
9. I don't want to see a bunch of people ganging up on just one person. It's exceptional like say for example; Aang's gang is fighting Azula. Just take turns at throwing attacks. We don't want people jumping out and attacking at once. It's stressful on the Azula roleplayer.
10. The limit to the bending powers you can have is two, unless you're Aang. Made-up bending types are allowed if they're reasonable. Exp. Shadowbending, lightbending, etc.
11. No Aang relatives like a sibiling, or cousin, etc. Zuko and Azula are exceptions considering their Mother, Ursula, was the granddaughter of Avatar Roku I do believe.
12. No OC fiance's, wives/husbands, girlfriend/boyfriends to any of the main characters. An exception would be, say, someone was roleplaying Zuko while you roleplayed an OC. If the person roleplaying Zuko allows Zuko and your OC to fall inlove, become a fiance' of, get married, girlfriend/boyfriend, etc. It's fine with me. But don't end up forcing someone whose roleplaying a main character into it.
Also, Don't roleplay the main character and your OC and have them going out. That takes the fun out of roleplaying.
13. Cursing is allowed, aslong as you don't abuse it. Saying something as simple as 'Damn' or 'Shit' is fine. But don't go off saying every bad word in the book in one sentence.
14. If your feeling ignored, don't end up trying to get your character killed to get attention. If you want attention, try having your character walk up and talk to others.
15. Don't be in one place like a town and suddenly be in the forest the next. Let's say your character is talking to someone in the town. But somewhere far off people are fighting. Your character can't possibly know that there is a fight going on. The main point of this; Please get to know your characters and everyone elses surroundings. Not all of them are in the same area.
16. Unless you're roleplaying an entire Fire Nation fleet, you're not allowed to destroy villages. Also, your Fire Nation fleet must have a good reason to do this. Exp.
Good: The Avatar was spotted in the village in disguise.
Bad: Your OC character is somehow so more important to the Fire Nation than the Avatar and they're trying to kill them.
Good: A group of OCs, has to be four, that are wanted were spotted in the towns.
Bad: The Fire Nation magically knows the Avatar is in the village even though nobody spotted him without a disguise.
17. Please kept your love for detailing blood and gore in fighting to a minimum considering there are people who will get queezy even just by reading it.
18. You cannot change anything about a main character. This goes for making Aang gay and inlove with Zuko or something. Fanfiction is an exception. But in roleplaying, none of that. I don't have anything against homosexuality, but I do have something against altering a characters personality.
19. No shipping wars. No 'Ewww! Zutara/Katang/etc.'. I could care less if you hate cannon shipping. I could less if you think Zutara is so obviously not going to happen. I could care less if you hate straight pairings or homosexual pairings. It upsets alot of us how much people will act as if they're better than everyone else because of the pairing they like. Liking a pairing that nobody else likes may seem to you to be open minded, but to me it's just ignorance. So please, I don't want to here anyone saying their shipping is best.
20. If you're angry with someone, You could Private Message me and I'll try to be able to help the problem. But I don't want to see any 'I hate that person. Ban them please.' If you think they deserved to be banned, give me real reasons. Which means no 'He's stupid and mean.'. Tell me what they did that made them so 'stupid and mean'. Be more specific. I'll try to help you out the best I can.
21. No begging to be apart of the staff. We don't have many members yet. But when we do, then we'll think about hiring new staff members to help us out.
22. Your siggys and icons can be of shipping. But if it's an offending picture, You'll be asked to have to take it down.
23. If you create a roleplay, you may make your own rules. BUT. You must also follow mine. But you can make rules like 'No one liners' if literacy is a must for you. Or you can say 'No airbenders other than Aang' if that's a must for you too. But I don't want to see any conflict about it.
25. As you know with the animals on Avatar, they're mixed species. Except for Bosco whose just a bear. They all found it weird that it was just a bear. So if your character has a pet dog, or a cat, etc., It's going to be considered as unusual in the Avatar world. If you don't want that, try being more creative. A rabbit fox, or Racoon dog, or just whatever you think of.
26. Try to keep in with with the time period in Avatar. Most of everything we have in life today hasn't been invented yet in that time period for a looong time. So I don't want to see an earthbender girl with a band T-shirt and contacts or big wide baggy pants with chains and converse shoes carrying an iPod and her cellphone. Not unless we're in a Future RP where our characters are in the Modern World instead and in highschool. Most of the women in Avatar were a robe like dress so try to consider the fashion they had then.
27. If you were in a roleplay on a board, but you don't respond in three days, I'll Private Message you telling you that you need to reply. If you still don't reply for another three days, You will be automatically booted from the roleplay so the rest can continue. An exception can be made for others who are grounded or on vacation, etc.
28.
More rules will be added as I find problems. If there's ever a rule update, I will Private Message everyone about it.
It's a 3-chance thing. If you fail to follow the rules once, I'll give you a warning. If you fail to follow them a second time, I'll be more strict on my warning. If you fail for the third time I will temporarily suspend you. When you come back and I still see you breaking the rules, I will ban you on the spot. If you take advantage of these three chances, I won't hold back to suspend or ban you.
Thank you for reading. If you agree to accept these rules, you may now begin to roleplay and enjoy the rest of the site. ^^