{"id":18206,"date":"2025-05-28T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:45:09","slug":"roleplaying-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/2025\/05\/28\/roleplaying-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Roleplaying Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s generally expected that the content of anything IC you do, emotes or<br \/>other IC commands follows reasonable standards with regards to staying IC<br \/>and not being used to accomplish other things, in particular:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\">*<span style=\"color:#ffffff\">)<\/span\/span> You should not include any OOC information or communication inside an<br \/>emote. SRs are exempt from this standard if they find they need OOC emotes<br \/>to set up\/run their scenes. If this is the case wrap the OOC emote in brackets<br \/>or the like to make it distinct.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\">*<span style=\"color:#ffffff\">)<\/span\/span> You should not post fixed or corrected emotes, if you need to fix an<br \/>error and cannot do so ICly you should do it with a small follow up<br \/>clarifying statement. Do not repeat the whole emote again. This spams people<br \/>unnecessarily and causes more information to scroll off their screen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\">*<span style=\"color:#ffffff\">)<\/span\/span> You should not use color to an extent that is irritating or obnoxious.<br \/>You should not color all your emotes. You should not overwrite people&#8217;s<br \/>color say preferences with colored speech in your emotes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\">*<span style=\"color:#ffffff\">)<\/span\/span> You should not include any &#8216;meta commentary&#8217; in your emotes remarking on<br \/>events as if you were a narrator talking about the scene. This is<br \/>especially true of passive aggressive commentary such as. &#8220;Bob ignores<br \/>@person and their stupid shoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\">*<span style=\"color:#ffffff\">)<\/span\/span> You should not write the result of an action which may be contested<br \/>unless the result has been determined by some coded feature of the game such<br \/>as a compete or combat.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\">*<span style=\"color:#ffffff\">)<\/span\/span> You should not use emotes to control NPCs in any way that aids your<br \/>character or their agenda unless they are professional NPCs simply doing<br \/>their job, such as bodyguards or shopkeepers. Or are NPCs reasonably<br \/>under your authority behaving sensibly, such as a secretary fetching<br \/>coffee or a child obeying their parents.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\">*<span style=\"color:#ffffff\">)<\/span\/span> You may not deliberately damage the immersion or reality of ongoing<br \/>roleplay with your emotes. Such as by deliberately focusing attention on<br \/>any coded aspect of the game unequal to the task of representing a reality<br \/>or on interpretations of coded events that are notably less sensible than<br \/>other interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do an emote that another character might be able to stop, such<br \/>as one interacting with them, use the attempt command instead to give<br \/>them the option to look over it.<\/p>\n<p>Also ensure you are following help content policy and the rules for not<br \/>roleplaying having abilities you do not codedly have and for only writing<br \/>explicit material while under the &#8216;private&#8217; flag.<\/p>\n<p>You can use report (person) if you feel they are violating these standards,<br \/>which will send them a message referring them to this help file.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>See Also<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/index.php\/game-info\/helpfiles\/#rules\" target=\"_blank\">Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/havenrpg.net\/newsite\/index.php\/game-info\/helpfiles\/#policies\" target=\"_blank\">Policies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s generally expected that the content of anything IC you do, emotes orother IC commands follows reasonable standards with regards to staying ICand not being used to accomplish other things, in particular: *) You should not include any OOC information or communication inside anemote. 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