À Armes Égales is a game for mature players with a strong focus on plot and action. While relationships may be a part of this game, if you are not interested in storyline or plot development, this may not be the RPG for you. While we welcome and encourage players new to roleplaying, we ask that they be willing to be creative and look beyond romance plots to advance their characters. Creativity and imagination are valued above all.
Age Limits
There is mature content in this game and as such, all players in this game must be 18 and over with no exceptions. Additionally, all icons and pictures used in this game must be of people who are overage. Any violation of this rule will result in immediate expulsion from the game and banning from all journals.
Adult Material/Relationships
Het, slash, bi-, whatever- relationships are all encouraged equally. We expect that players of this game will be open-minded and mature when dealing with writing such material and use discretion when reading or posting it. What this means is that we expect all such material to be clearly labeled, rated and placed behind a cut-tag. Likewise, we highly suggest that all players put a disclaimer on the info page of their journal.
The suggested disclaimer is as follows:
Disclaimers: The picture used for my icons is of [insert avatar name]. I am not him/her, nor do I claim to be him/her. This character has been created for the À Armes Égales RPG. The books are the property of JK Rowling and I am not affliated with her, her publishers or their associates.
I certify that I am of age in all jurisdictions. This game is rated for members 18 and over so viewing this journal means that you may be subjected to graphic or sexual content that would earn ratings of up to NC-17.
Activity Requirements
Armes requires a show of activity weekly. What we mean by this is that we want to see either a lengthy journal entry or RP every week. Any planned hiatuses need to be emailed to the moderators beforehand, if possible. Three subsequent weeks without posting or a pattern of non-posting and the character will be reopened for play.
The Boards
We ask that all posts be made to the appropriate boards. armes is the board designated for all roleplays and narratives. armes_ooc is the board on which important out-of-character notices (hiatuses and plot information) should go. armes_messages is where all letters and owls should be posted. armes_world is for worldbuilding. Characters' personal journal entries go in their journals. Please also refer to our "posting conventions" rule before making entries.
No memes or quizzes are to go in the regular boards. We feel that such memes are distracting and break from the world that we have created.
Moderators reserve the right to ask players to f-lock, edit or delete any post which breaks any rule listed in this game, including the conventions rule.
Posting Conventions
To make archiving of storylines and important entries easier, we ask that players list a description of RP events in the subject line of all RPs done. Additionally, we would like to see clarifying information in the format below for roleplaying:
(example) SUBJECT LINE: Daphne goes to London to find her father CHARACTERS: Daphne Greengrass, Thomas Greengrass (NPC) PLACE: London, England TIME: December 21, evening RATING: PG SUMMARY: (This is optional)
Ratings are mandatory on all RP posts as are cut-tags for any RP over 3 paragraphs (which should be all of them). We also ask that any out-of-character remarks be clearly designated. For this, we recommend double parenthesis as a common symbol. IE: ((OOC: Posted comment twice! Sorry!))
Netspeak
...equals death. Need we say more?
In-Character vs. Out-of-Character
It is to be understood that knowledge known out of character must be kept out of character if the player's character is in a situation where they would not have that information. Additionally, players need to always keep in mind that this is a game focused around conflict and as such, remember that characters hating one another does not mean that players do. In the event of any enmity or problems with fellow players, we ask that the moderators be contacted. Excessive out of character drama can and will result in the expulsion of the applicable parties.
These rules are meant to act as guidelines. We ask that all players treat one another with respect and follow common sense. While rules will be added as needed, we would prefer to keep them as minimal as possible.