Rules

[Zero Arden]

Each rule is in a different post, this should make them more organzied and easier to follow.

» General Board Rules
» Role-playing Rules
» Lightsaber Form Rules
» Death Rules

These rules are subject to change without notice.

[Zero Arden]

Board Rules:

The Admins and Moderators have the right to delete, edit, move or close any messages or topic that they believe to be unfit for public viewing, has already been covered in an existing topic, or the topic has finished. The Moderators also have the right to delete or edit any topics in their set forums. In addition, the board staff reserves the right to modify, or delete any post for any reason without notice.

Anyone being abusive or making obscene or unnecessary comments will be given a verbal Warning, the stage after a verbal warning is a Warning, and if you carry of we may ban you depending on the nature of the situation at hand. Respect for other board members is of the utmost importance. Those who consistently show they lack it will be dealt with severely.

The purpose of the forum is a discussion area, not a chat room. Meaning you can’t just go and post off topic or 10 times in a row. If you have more to say, make sure to use the edit button, and make new topics if you wish to start a new discussion.

The board staff may issue warnings at any time, for any reason they feel is appropriate. If you wish to contest a warning, bring it up with an administrator. It is recommended that you act cordially when doing so, as foul language and misdirected anger are unlikely to get you anywhere.

General Board Rules
1) Refrain from flaming (insulting or belittling fellow members) and trolling (antagonizing or goading another member, to receive a hostile response).

2) Respect every member on this board regardless of race, gender, religion, nationality, etc. Intolerance will not be permitted.

3) Try keeping the bad language down. Rather than swearing try to be creative with your language. (ie. I just stepped in a festering wad of dung)

4) Stay on topic! When replying in a topic stay on that topic. To discuss other things, simply create a new thread in the appropriate section.

5) No posting any pornographic or illicit material. This is not limited to images, and anything considered inappropriate will be removed at the staff's discretion.

6) Any staff member has the right to delete or edit a post and warn you.

7) Posting of extremely large images which distort the forum is discouraged. Try to resize the images yourself, or simply post a link to the picture, rather than using image tags.

8)Do not spam. Spam consists of stupid, pointless, or annoying messages. Messages should contain content, and relevant information. Posts that are entirely out of character in roleplay threads can also constitute spam, at a moderators discretion. If you must spam, use the appropriate spam section, or the chatbox, located at the top of each page.

9)Flooding consists of posting many times consecutively as quickly as possible. It is permitted only in the spam planet, and is prohibited on all other areas of the board, including the chatbox.

10)Your signature may not be so large as to distort the page. It should be 525 pixels or less in width, and no more than 1 full page on a standard resolution monitor (768 pixels) in height. Any signature which is over this limit will be modified by the board staff. Continual violation of these restrictions will result in the deletion of your signature.

11)Advertising will be permitted only in the appropriate section. You may not advertise your board by PM, through the chatbox, or by any other means. In addition, commercial advertising will not be permitted, under any circumstances.


Other notes:

Staff:
We would appreciate it if you do not flame them, insult them or threaten them in anyway. If you do you will be IP banned.


Name Changes
There is a topic in Feedback where you can request a username change.


Accounts and NPC's
-Only 2 accounts allowed.
-Only 2 NPC's allowed per account, the NPC has to be in the same faction as the account its a NPC to.

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Role-Playing Rules

General
1) Keep your posts long and descriptive. Try to refrain from posting short one liners.
2) Members are allowed up to two different accounts on AKT. Along with those you can have 2 NPC's for each account. However the account and the npc's must be in the same faction.
4) Morphing is not allowed unless your species allows it.
5) You keep your inventory in your signature and you update it yourself.
6) Your character can be in multiple places at once as long as the storys don't interwine.
7) Players are limited to mastering 2 force skills and being intermediate in one. This is like a Signature Skill, not the standard force powers. Players may also be of intermediate level in a third skill. This is to stop any character becoming over powered.
8) No scientific experiment can make a person learn things such as: Sorcery, deep dark side knowledge, or deep light side knowledge.
9) Although there is such thing as midichlorian transfer. It will not increase the connection to the force at all.
10) Pay careful attention which side a given planet you are on is aligned. If said planet is aligned with your faction you may 'close' a topic for personal reasons. However, if on a planet controlled by another faction, and a member of said faction feels it necessary to step in because you may/may not be exploiting the closed nature, said member can freely enter a topic in a logical manner. If the Sith hold Coruscant, a Jedi cannot assume that by making a closed topic he will have free reign to do whatever he wants without fear of reprisal.


Weapons & Spacecraft / Vehicles
1) No legendary lightsabers will be allowed on the website. This includes black, white, silver, gold, etc.
2) There are starter weapons and spaceships that you start the role-play with, you get these when your create your characters profile.
3) There will be no weapons, or armors that increase the connection to the force of any kind, or that give the user special abilities and skills. Unless all the Admins agree upon it.

Requesting / Obtaining Items
In order to obtain items you can either purchase them from a shop or you can role-play getting them and request it in the Report Center.

Step-by-Step for requesting an item you obtained in a role-play.
1) Role-play getting it.
2) At the end of the role-play put Request: then what you request from the role-play.
3) Copy the link to the topic.
4) Go to the Report Center
5) Post a topic with the link to your topic and what you would like.
6) Wait for an Rpg Admin to approve or disapprove it, once you get it approved add what was approved to your signature.

Battling
If both parties do not agree to the duel it will never take place, however if they both reply to it the battle will start and you wont be able to back out of it. If you dont want to battle say something in OOC to indicate you dont want to.

IF THE DEFENDER HASN'T REPLIED WITHIN THREE DAYS WITHOUT A VALID REASON AND NOTICE, THEY ARE LEFT AT THEIR OPPONENT'S MERCY (Try to avoid death blows, as for all we know this person may have temporarily lost internet).

Have you Read the Rules Option in the Profile: Just put "The Emperor must of used alot of skin lotion."

Classing up
This is intended for the neutral faction. How good you are depends on your class, the lowest and what you start out at first is Class 0. You'll eventually be able to class yourself up and the higher the class the better of a reputation you will have. To class up find how many successful jobs you've done as your occupation and post what you need in the report center.

Class 0 - 0 Jobs
Class 1 - 2 Jobs
Class 2 - 5 Jobs
Class 3 - 7 Jobs
Class 4 - 10 Jobs

The numbers do not go up from the previous one. So if you are going from Class 2 to Class 3 you'll need to get 5 more jobs done as your occupation. They do not carry over.

God Modding

Power Gaming - This God-Mode is perhaps the most obvious of any of them. It is the use of massively overpowered abilities, or abilities used over unrealistic timespans. It can be split into the following:

• Overpowered Abilities - An Overpowered Ability is exactly what it sounds like; an ability with far too much power. It can also be doing a task far beyond the physical or mental capabilities of your character. These are generally abilities that are nearly, if not impossible to survive if targeted by one.
• Global-Scale Abilities - This form of power gaming involves abilities that affect a rediculously large area, such as wiping out all life on a planet, or creating cloud cover over its entire surface.
• Invulnerability - This form of PGing is the use of a character that is never hit by attacks, or never affected by them when they hit. It is essentially the use of a God, and let's face it; everyone runs out of luck eventually.

Omnescense - This God-Mode is essentially the mental side of the Power Game. It involves a character possessing more knowledge than they have obtained ICly. Omnescense can be split into these groups:

• OOC Knowledge - Out of Character/Context knowledge is knowledge that the rper may have, but the character does not. An example would be: <<You are fighting a character yours has never fought before. You look at his character sheet, and discover the character has an irrational fear of pork products. Conveniently, your character is carrying two raw hams when the time comes to fight.>>. That example is a bit off the wall, but certain sets of things should not be mixed; one of them is IC and OOC knowledge.
• Mind Reading - Your character does not hear other peoples thoughts (well, they might, but they shouldn't). Things posted as thought should not be used as IC knowledge. For example, if Jack thinks about treachery, don't have your character yell "TRAITOR!" and jump at him, as s/he doesn't know that the other character is thinking about treachery.
• Farsight - When another character is halfway across the Galaxy, chances are, you don't know what's happening to them. If they are in trouble, try to avoid immediately jumping into action to go save the day, as there isn't really a basis for it. As stated above, keep OOC and IC knowledge seperate.

Out-of-Character Examples
Put your out-of-character text at the bottom of your post and put it in parenthesis or brackets or something to indicate you are talking out-of-character. Even putting OOC: at the bottom before your out-of-character text will work.

WRONG WAY
Slays lightsaber dived towards his foes lightsaber who raised his in enough time to block it. Hey, how should we end this battle?

CORRECT WAY
Slays lightsaber dived towards his foes lightsaber who raised his in enough time to block it.
(Hey, how should we end this battle?)


Multiple Places Example
Role-play 1: You get a lightsaber in this role-play and it gets accepted
Role-play 2: You are not allowed to use the lightsaber you got in role-play 1.

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Rules Regarding Lightsaber Forms:

On A Knight's Tales, use of any lightsaber form, including the seven traditional forms and the three styles of the New Jedi Order, is acceptable. If you wish, you can even create your own form, though you'll need to create a full description, and get it approved by an RPG Admin.

Being specific about your lightsaber form is not necessary, but remember to stick to a 'style' of combat. If your character is light on his feet and fights elegantly, he's probably not going to, mid-battle, start using his lightsaber like a club. Knowing many forms is also fine, however, an increase in breadth should be accompanied by a decrease in depth. A jack of all trades is a master of none.

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Death Rules

If you die in a role-play there can be various choices for you to come back to life. Each faction has their own ways of being revived from the dead.

The Jedi Order
-Get a Jedi Master to perform a ritual bringing you back to life (Only allowed 1x)
-Pay 1,000 credits to purchase a holocron of life (Allowed to be used 1x)

Sith Covenant
-Be revived by a Sith Master (Only allowed 1x)
-Pay 1,000 credits to purchase a holocron of life (Allowed to be used 1x)

The Red Dawn/Galactic Empire
-Be revived by a Dawn Master (Only allowed 1x)
-Pay 1,000 credits to purchase a holocron of life (Allowed to be used 1x)

The Mandalorian Rebellion
-Be revived by a Mandalorian War Surgeon (Only allowed 1x)
-Pay 1,000 credits to purchase a holocron of life (Allowed to be used 1x)

The Shadow Order
-Be revived by a Shadow Master (Only allowed 1x)
-Pay 1,000 credits to purchase a holocron of life (Allowed to be used 1x)

Neutral
-Pay 750 credits to be cloned and have a brain transfer

Special Instances
-The Faction holding Kamino can clone their dead members as many times as needed, for a cost 750 credits each time.

Note: You can remain a force spirit up to 200 posts. If you are not revived your character will be gone for good.

Note: Once your character dies you lose your inventory. The person who killed you can take your items, weapons, spacecraft, any anything else you may have had, otherwise they will be left where you died. You can get them back if you role-play going back, however bare in mind that scavengers may come along and take them while your dead.

[Darth Valec]

Rules have been updated as of August 1, 2008.

Valec Head Admin.

This post has been edited by Darth Valec on Aug 2 2008, 12:49 AM

[Lord Acheron]

The Rules regarding Lightsaber Forms have been updated as of April 18, 2009.