Roleplay Rules & Guidelines

These rules are, well, guidelines, really—to make role-playing easier to understand for all. All role-playing topics are located under the Fire Valley Roleplay board; anything out of that is just member chat, essentially.

*Everything that you RP on public topics are on in RP. If someones OC is a male wolf and has "feelings" for a female wolf (in RP) that does not mean they have real life feelings for that member.*


Rules

Don't control another member's wolves in topics. If they're not posting, wait. Give them time, you don't know how their life works. For all you know, they only get two hours of time a day to go on, or they're on vacation, or they had an urgent matter to attend to, or they forgot to log off, etc., etc.

Give members a chance to post. If there are more than two members involved in a topic, give everyone a chance to say something, to get a word in edge-wise. You never know when someone may have a really good reply.

Go with the flow of the Roleplay in a topic. Whoever started it had something in mind when they made it, so don't just have a coyote come out of nowhere to attack you, or interrupt a member when they're addressing another wolf. It's rude and makes the role-player feel bad.

Maybe most important of all, ACT YOUR RANK. If you're a pup, act like a pup. You don't know anything! You've barely even been around! If you're an Omega, act like an Omega. You know some things at first, sure, but that's only what you were able to gather from living for a short time inside your pack. You need to LEARN what your pack smells like. You need to LEARN what coyotes are. You need to LEARN the proper hunting position. You need to LEARN who the pack is. Please don't act like you know everything just so you can get a certain rank, it doesn't work like that, it'll just take longer. When you're a higher rank, I'd assume you know a lot by now, but if you haven't seen something in a topic, you don't know it.

Role-play in third person. Because you aren't actually the wolf, they're just your character. Ex: (What not to do) I walked through the bushes and jumped on the rabbit. Ex: (To do) Storm walked through the bushes and jumped on the rabbit.

All role-playing topics are in past-tense. Ex: (What not to do) Storm walks down the stream, and he sees the intruders a couple paw steps away. Ex: (To do) Storm walked down the stream and he saw the intruders a couple of paw steps away.

Please try to write with good grammar and spelling. It's sometimes hard for others to read someones post if it doesn't have punctuation or all the words have typos.
Ex: (Bad) Sorm rann threw the bushese to te noyse whats going on he barked.
Ex: (Good) Storm ran through the bushes to the noise. "What's going on?!" He barked.

Absolutely no power-playing. This is when one plays a character that can never be destroyed, harmed, is avoiding impossible amounts of damage, etc. The character, hurts and/or kill the other characters without giving the other characters a chance. It is also when your wolf knows information that they shouldn't. Do not be a Power-player.

Absolutely no mating scenes. It is not appropriate for this site. You may hint at mating scenes but always fade to Black in the right areas. You can show love and passion between two characters without showing mating.

Please follow these guidelines and there won't be any trouble.