The Rules

Article I. Expectations of Behavior.
[blockquote]i. This site maintains a PG-13 rating, mostly in regards to violent and profane content. Swearing is tolerated in moderation; sexually explicit material is not.
ii. Harassment of any member on the basis of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political stance, or the etcetera will not be tolerated.
iii. Members are expected to remain civil while in public. Fighting on threads or in the CBox is prohibited. If you have an issue with another member, send them a private message rather than confront them on the CBox.
iv. Plagiarism of any kind is not tolerated and will result in a forum ban.
v. Lying, sockpuppeting, or otherwise attempting to deceive the membership of the site with malicious intent (as per administrative discretion) may result in ostracism from the forum, with or without a permanent ban.
vi. Given the nature of this site as an RPG, members are expected to adhere to the basic rules of spelling and grammar. Chatspeak is strongly discouraged. Any members feeling that their skills in these areas are lacking may contact an RP Tutor.
vii. Any content, be it an image, post, link, or etc, may be removed without warning and/or notification at the discretion of the staff if it is found to be vulgar, offensive, or generally detracting from the appearance of the site.
viii. Advertisement is to be contained to the advertising board only, meaning no PMs, no emails, no new threads in other places, etc.[/blockquote]

Article II. Staff Members and Roleplaying Tutors
[blockquote]i. It is the duty of staff members to assist the membership and keep the site running smoothly; however, this does not mean they must wait on each member hand and foot, or comply with members' demands. Please be respectful when asking questions or favors.
ii. Regular members may apply for a position on the staff ONLY during designated staff search periods. Do not message any of the staff requesting to be hired. There are no application periods for Roleplaying Tutors, as they are invited privately.
iii. Any member feeling abused, mistreated, or otherwise placed at a disadvantage by a staff member who is abusing their power should send a private message to Lulu, Aya, or Wolf Tears to file a complaint.
[blockquote]subsection A. Duties and Expectations of Staff
i. Administrator — In charge of the smooth operation of the forum and managing the rest of the staff, as well as the various odd jobs that are necessary for the forum to operate.
ii. Global Moderator — Handles moderator functions, in charge of managing the moderators, performs duties of administrator, and occasionally manages the Hunger Games.
ii.a. Global Mod/Coder — Additionally is in charge of the forum's coding, handling the "of the Month" polls, and occasionally the Hunger Games themselves.
iii. Moderators — Handle member complaints regarding IC behavior, scout threads for exemplary RPing and rule violations alike, enforce the rules in the OOC Boards and Cbox, Report serious problems to the rest of the staff, Critique/Accept character applications.
iv. Advertiser — Manage affiliations with other sites, post advertisements on other forums, update master list of advertisements, Critique/Accept character applications.
v. Librarians — Maintain order in lists, update the face claim thread, update the character directory, Critique/Accept character applications.
vi. Head Roleplaying Tutor — Manage the Roleplaying Tutors, fulfill duties of regular RP Tutors, look for members in need of tutoring, maintain RP Tutoring boards, Critique/Accept character applications.
vii. RP Tutors — Helpfully respond to threads in the RP Tutoring boards, occasionally create RP Guides, Critique/Accept character applications.
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Article III. Characters
[blockquote]i. Characters must be submitted by creating a new thread in the [link=http://thehungergamesrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bio]Character Creation forum[/link].
ii. All characters must be accepted by a staff member before they may be used.
iii. Characters without the codeword will not be accepted.
iv. Characters are not required to adhere to the template; however, a sufficient amount of content addressing each section of information must be present.
v. Characters must adhere to the length requirement: two paragraphs are expected for appearance, three for personality, and three for history.
vi. Flawless characters, particularly Mary Sues and Gary Stus, are most likely not going to be accepted.
vii. Do not argue with the staff member who is reviewing your bio. Being courteous and making the changes they ask is the quickest way to get your character accepted most quickly.
viii. There is no limit to the number of characters owned by one person; however, try to maintain a reasonable activity level for each of them.
ix. There is a chance that characters won't be added to the sidebar directory automatically. If this is the case, members should notify the Librarians of any changes that need to occur.
x. All births, deaths, and marriages should be reported to the Librarians, in order to update the Directory. The specifics regarding births, deaths, and marriages may be left to the owners of the characters involved, so long as no site rules are being violated.
xi. Members are allowed to claim celebrities as play-bys (or face claims) for their characters, and should follow the guidelines on the actual [link=http://thehungergamesrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=info&action=display&thread=6581&page=1]Face Claim thread.[/link]
xii. Cannon characters and relations to cannon characters are prohibited.
xiii. The codeword for creating a character consists of the combination of several underlined letters found throughout the rules. There is one letter per section, and they should be arranged in order.[/blockquote]

Article IV. Roleplaying
[blockquote]i. Roleplaying with characters who have not been accepted is prohibited.
ii. Chatspeak is prohibited in-character. No exceptions.
iii. A minimum of one good-length paragraph is expected for each response. More is preferable.
iv. Controlling someone else's character (powerplaying) is expressly forbidden. This ranges from shaking their hand without them offering it to making their character say something or perform an action.
v. Godmodding is likewise prohibited. Your character is not invincible.
vi. It is permissible for characters to be in as many threads as they would like, unless they are tributes in the Hunger Games.
vii. Threads should not be comprised of multiple posts that are only OOC notes. Use the private messaging system instead of the thread.
viii. Thread-jumping (posting on someone else's thread) is prohibited. Please be sure to ask permission before entering anyone else's thread.[/blockquote]

Article V. Plots
[blockquote]i. Random events may affect individual districts, regions, or the entire forum, and may involve anything that the staff has come up with.
ii. Members are encouraged to participate in these random events as they may occur.
iii. If you feel as though a Surprise or Disaster is unfair to you or your character specifically, please contact an administrator.
[blockquote]subsection A. Detention Center
i. Members may receive a PM from a staff member saying that their character has received a sentence to a certain amount of time (or number of complete threads) in the detention center for a certain crime they have committed in character.
ii. Members are expected to serve their full sentences.
iii. A character in the Detention Center is not allowed to continue any RPs they had in the other boards until their sentence is up.
iv. If a member's character is Reaped while in the detention center, they will still be allowed to participate in the Games.
v. Characters will only be forced to become Avoxes for the most serious of crimes, at staff discretion.
vi. Avoxes will not be allowed to return to their districts, and will be instead sent to the Capitol.
vii. If you do not think your character deserves to be made into an Avox, you may send in an appeal to the staff, and we will consider your request.
viii. Peacekeeper characters will be subjected to a much higher standard in terms of bio application, previous behavior, and RP quality.
ix. You may report a person for breaking the law at this page.
x. Just because a character has been reported for a crime does not mean that they will be convicted for it.[/blockquote][blockquote]subsection B. Hunger Games
i. The Hunger Games occur about three times per year and span about three months, with a one month break in between.
ii. Characters must be submitted in the pre-Hunger Games activity check to be considered eligible to become a tribute.
iii. Only one tribute per person per Hunger Games.
iv. Volunteering is first-come, first-serve, and takes place after the allotted activity check time.
v. Please refer to the Current Hunger Games Rules for a more detailed explanation of how the Hunger Games are run.[/blockquote][/blockquote]