ROLE PLAY RULES

[Beauty]

• We'll start off with the rule people tend to overlook sometimes: THE MINIMUM POST COUNT IS 250 WORDS. It's not hard to do and it makes role playing an easier and more enjoyable experience for everyone. If you can't post 250 words, this should help you think more about your character and discover more of who they are. Besides what they say and do, what are they wearing? What are they thinking? What are they feeling? I promise, once you push yourself a few times, it's not that hard to hit 250. You might even soar past that.
  
  
• No posting anything until your application has been accepted. Do not post claims for an unaccepted character, even on another account. The staff is not stupid. You will be caught. Do not post threads until your character has been accepted.
  
  
• Post applications and claims in their proper place and forms. This includes making sure your claims are wrapped in code, your applications stick to the required prerequisites and all rules are abided by when posting these. We are the staff, we take care of the site, but we are not here to baby you.
  
  
• DO NOT BUG ADMINS OR MODS ABOUT ACCEPTING YOUR APPLICATION OF ANY KIND. Be it character application or anything on claims or baby apps or anything. Even casually mentioning "oh I finished my character or "does anyone wanna see my app?" or any of that is considered as "bugging". We get the hint: you have an app. We are usually pretty good about getting to these in decent timing. Bugging us about it only ensures you a longer delay.
  
  
• When it comes to making characters, keep this in mind: we have a girl-boy ratio. FOR EV ERY FOUR (4) GIRL CHARACTER YOU HAVE, THE FIFTH As part of our new forum, we have focused on keeping the site clean and consistent. This also includes graphics, signatures and avatars. As such, there are new size restrictions that you must abide by in order to keep the site beautiful and clean.
  
  
• If you want to make a very young (physically) vampire, they must be no younger than the age of 12. This is to avoid what we call the "IMMORTAL CHILD"[/b], which the Volturi are NOT okay with. We are keeping this realistic, people. So if you want to make any character a young age, the youngest you can make them is 12. We don't need a million orphans all over the site and if someone wants a child they must do a baby app and get one.
  
  
• Concerning CHILD APPLICATIONS, whenever a character is made to be the child of characters on this site, they cannot "grow up" or become legal adults until they have completed one thread in every stage of that child's life (see Child Tracker) You can do one shot threads for this, but you must have at least two full threads with the child.
  
  
• Applicants wishing to recieve a child must be rping for atleast ONE (1) MONTH. This is the character, not the rper. I do not want to se someone create a character and then suddenly get them pregnant. Yes we like to have a lot of youngins around, but you need to get your character developed first. There are plenty of other plost to be had. I have RPed Delta for a year now and she has never once considered having a child.
  
  
• Absolutely NO SHIFTER / VAMPIRE RELATIONSHIPS. Shifters and half vampires, yes. Shifters and full vampires, no. They can be friends, sure, but NO romantic relationships.
  
  
• Vampires and shifters (even shifters who have the gene but have not shifted yet) CANNOT reproduce.
  
  # Humans DO NOT KNOW about vampires and werewolves. If it is in your app, you will not be accepted. If they find out during roleplay and stay human, keep it to a minimum. The only humans who should know about that world are the imprints of shifters and that is it. If they find out, they better be imprinted or they better be turning into a vampire very soon.
  
  
• THE FC STEALING RULE: if an actor or actress is claimed on the face claim list, you cannot have it. If you put it in your application but did not claim it, it is up for grabs. If you do not follow the proper instructions on the Face Claim list, your claim will not be added and if someone comes along who does follow the rule, they may take it. You may "steal" another person's face claim if they have not logged in in two weeks and if they have not posted in a month. If they posted in the "missing board" they are safe. If they give no specific time they will be back, the claim is open again after three months. If they give an unreasonable amount of time for being gone and someone else wants the claim, well sorry, but we have to be fair. Active people get the face claims they want.
  
  # If you have multiple accounts, LOGGING IN EVERY DAY is a good idea. This is so that we look active and that if you have a face claim you like, it won't be stolen so easily.
  
  
• GOD MODDING and POWER PLAY is a BIG NO NO. In some situations this is hard, I know, but get the other person's permission before you do something like that. But if your character is hitting another character, do not say "Fred hit Stacy" say instead "Fred attempted to hit Stacy". This gives the other person a chance to duck. On another note, no powerplaying. I don't care who you are, you are not invincible. If your in a fight, YOU WILL GET HIT. Miss a few, take a few. Be fair. If your character thinks they are indestructible. Fine. I well know my Danna is. But they aren't and you need to fight fair, ladies and gentlemen.
  
  
• DO NOT KILL off another person's character without their PERMISSION. Once a character has been role-played dying, there is no bringing them back. If you insinuate that they died and wanna bring them back, then fine. But if Todd burned Cody to his death. All that was left was a pile of ashes. There is no coming back. So be careful.
  
  
• Be RESPECTFUL towards one another. No real fighting (between RPers) on the site or in the c box. You will be warned and if it happens multiple times you will be banned. If you have issues with someone, do it through PM and be nice about it. If you want respect, you better show it.
  
  
• DO NOT MENTION OTHER SITES ON GD. Do not bad mouth another site, by name, in the c box or on the site. We don't want people badmouthing this site on their site, so it will not be tolerated here. Do not go onto another site and start causing trouble in the name of GD. It will not be tolerated. Do not advertise another site on Greatest Dowlfall unless done through advertising and affiliates. If you mention another site anywhere else, be it c box or on site, it will not be tolerated. Even if you aren't saying JOIN MY SITE just mentioning the name will raise interest and just the mention of a name is advertising. So if you have a site, do not talk about it on my site, as I find it to be very disrespectful to be blatantly advertising your site on mine. Just mentioning another site by name for any reason period outside of the Ads and Affiliates board will not be tolerated. They will be deleted and you will get a warning.

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