Forum Rules

I. GENERAL ROLE-PLAYING AND FORUM COURTESY

A. Role-playing will be the main activity of the site.

B. Posting Out of Character (OOC) messages in a role-play thread should be kept to a minimum. If done, please enclose in brackets and say they're Out of Character.

C. Please use proper grammar and spelling as much as possible. Don't substitute things like the words you, to, and are for single letters/numbers. If you do, expect your booty to be booted by a shoe.

D. Posts should be written in third-person narrative form. If you don't know what this is, please ask a mod about it.

E. The forum follows a posting order for role-playing and that would be as to who went first, second, third, etc...must repeat the cycle in the same order.

F. In role-playing threads, you are not allowed to double post or make more than one post consecutively. If this is done by accident, you may ask a mod or admin to have it deleted. There is an edit button so that you can change your posts if needed. You are also not allowed to bump threads. If you need to remind people or show people a thread, just link it to them in chat or PM.

G. The depiction of sex is forbidden. This means role-playing in relation to the sexual act or similarly graphic content should be faded to black. You may role-play the moments leading up to it, but not the acts in themselves. Threads with such content should also be closed threads where all parties involved are aware and consent posts in relation to this.

H. Rape and pedophilia may not be portrayed. Gore is allowed, but within reason. If gore exists only for the sake of gore and does not contribute to the flow of the story or is simply for shock purposes, we may ask for such content to be removed or edited. Keep it reasonable.

I. Show respect to everyone on the forum at all times. This rule extends the Chatroom.

J. If your character dies is sent to the Shadow Realm in-character, he/she cannot be brought back under any circumstances. As of now, dead Soulless characters are to remain dead soulless. This includes cloning (not like cloning can be done in our setting, now can it?).

K. Please note that writing style, vocabulary, etc don't have any effect on the battle. So if someone writes like the Queen of England and the other like a regular person, then it does not affect the effectiveness of their attack. That said, your posts should be clear on how your character attacks, responds to the opponent's attacks, etc.

M. Absolutely NO God Modding. There are four types of god mods:
Autohit: This is when you attack a member and decide the attack hits without giving them a chance to dodge.*
Power Play: This is when you dodge or counter every single attack thrown at you.
Metagaming: This is when you use knowledge learned out of character and give to your character who has no way of knowing the information.
Controlling other characters that are not your own; the exception to this is NPC’s you create.*



II. Character Creation

A. Your character is not God, he/she is not immortal and he/she is not invincible. He/she is a mortal being. He/she cannot dodge every attack and he/she cannot instantly kill people, this goes back to godmodding.

B. In no way, shape or form are Mary Sues allowed on this site. Don't know what that is?

C. When making the profile for a character make it as detailed as you can. A simple profile with only one to two sentences will not be approved until more content is added. If there are things that are relevant to your plot in the history that you'd rather be a surprise, place it in a spoiler box.

G. Exported characters are not allowed. Characters should not allude to or reference any characters from the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, manga, or other sources from the franchise. Characters should definitely not be exact representations of other fictional figures (e.g Ash Ketchum from Pokemon or Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z)

H. Once your character(s) is/are approved you must include a link to their approved profile in your signature. This link is to be clearly marked with your character's name.

I. Do not comment in approval threads that do not belong to you.

J. You are allowed to have a maximum of three characters, but please try to stay active with all of them as much as possible. This max may be changed if activity on the board is increased.

K. If you wish to kill off a character send a character to the Shadow Realm to replace them, it must be done in a plot or event thread, with a legitimate reason for the death losing their soul. You may not make a thread purely for killing a character sending a character to the Shadow Realm. This rule applies to retiring a character as well.

L. Please follow the character template provided in the Character Creations sub-forum.

M. You can create non-playable characters significant to your stories or plots, but they must be placed in the NPC thread and follow its template. Unimportant NPC's however, such as a store woman or strangers, can be written without need of approval or permission.

III. Dueling and Progression

A. Follow all house rules for initial deck building and dueling, which can be found here.

B. Do not take the results/progression of a duel personally. We're a community focused on having fun with the game and fulfilling childhood self-insert dreams.

C. If you do not want to go through the trouble of having mods regulate your duels in RP, then you can opt to do things on your own if your opponent consents and agrees to following an honor system. If either party is suspected of or accused of abusing this honor system, then this right can be permanently revoked.

D. While the card game is the main theme, the main focus of the forum is the role-playing aspect. The main idea is to role-play an interesting character you can have fun with and interact with other people who are also playing characters they have fun with. It's absolutely required that you are chilling out with your crew in the school yard and finding trouble but never looking too hard. If you're looking too hard, you're not doing it right.

E. You know that really annoying guy at tournaments who obnoxiously acts like the anime characters, narrates every move he makes, and has the annoying Life Point app you can hear from across the room? Be that guy.