Rules & Guidelines for Posting:
I try to generally be a rule free guy but hey some guidelines are needed.
Posting Conventions in Azzorak games:
1: 2 story posts per week, generally these will be on Sunday Morning and Wednesday Night (eastern timezone). These are the bigger exposition posts that move the story forward, I will post smaller posts to resolve rolls and other mechanics as needed throughout the week. Feel free to post as many or as few exposition / roleplaying posts as you wish between story posts but make sure they make sense chronologically with other player, npcs, and plot posts.
2: Feel free to take small liberties when posting roleplaying posts. If it requires a roll or an NPC interaction you have to wait for my response but small inconsequential actions and flavor details can be made as long as they fit the theme and setting. As expected I can veto anything you add to the post. See my posts in
Dungeons of the Dead for examples of this convention.
3: If you need to make a roll and you know what to roll, make it and I will post with the result. Please post any action that requires a roll as a link to the mechanices thread in OOC discussion. Character thoughts and exposition can just be typed in normal format.
4: Please post dialog in quotes and in
red
5: Post OOC and Mechanic discussion in
green. Longer discussions should be posted in the mechanics discussion thread.
6: While I do not have strict minimums I generally like to see a story unfold collaboratively so I generally do not approve of 1 line or worse 1 word posts. Please strive for about a paragraph and try to be articulate. I generally post three paragraphs per post when I am a player. One paragraph is what the character senses, one is what s/he thinks or feels, and the other is what s/he does.
Rules:
1: Follow all of Gamer's Plane's rules
2: Obviously depictions of violence are accepted but only where appropriate and only grammatically expressed. Please keep it relatively realistic.
3: Depictions of sexual activity should be left fairly vague as this is a public game. I am not opposed to sexuality and I understand its role in society and in our genes. It can be fairly powerful as a narrative device, but do not turn this into erotic literature.
4: Do no be a rules lawyer. A: I make mistakes and will not slow down the story to fix them, B: I care more about narrative than mechanics, and C: I purposely tweak rules regularly.
5: Please do not hold up the game unnecessarily. If you will be absent or delayed post in the OOC Discussion and we will accommodate you in some manner. If it is unreasonably long or unreasonably often I may drop you and open the game for someone else. I realize real life comes first but do not commit if you cannot commit, we are all relying on you to have a good time.
6: If you do not agree with these rules, back out now. I will not hold it against you.