Potter's Army: Site Rules

Registering

• Welcome!  First, its important for you to know that Potter's Army is an RPG.  It is expected that our members are here in order to role play in the game based on J K Rowling's Harry Potter book series.  In order to be an "active" member here, you do need to have an approved character application and be posting on the boards.  If you are here for any other purpose, the site staff does have the right to de-activate you or to refuse you "active" membership.
  
  
• Please bear in mind that this is a PG-13 site which makes allowances for mild and infrequent swearing. Mild sexual innuendo is permitted but explicit detail is not. Explicit description or narration of in-character violence is allowed but let's not make it too gory!
  
  
• Register with just the first and last name of your character, with proper capitalization - e.g. Isaac Newman - and not a screen name/nickname - e.g. HarryPotz4evs, Harry_Potter, Elsie etc.  Oh, and a hint here? Please make your PA user name whatever you expect other characters to call your character.  Ex: If you expect other characters to call your character Bill, please register him as Bill, if you can, and not William. Names you don't intend to use are fine, but those can go in your application information and not in your registration.  Middle initials/names are generally not necessary here and, unless you really need middle names or initials, it can tend to get in your own way later when you go to log in or look up your character's information for some reason.  It can also get in our way when we're trying to do our little admin bits to help make your gameplay easier. Just a first and last name is fabulous!
  
  
• You are welcome to make both canon and non-canon characters. If you want to make a canon, however, please look at the list in the character applications section.
  
  
• Make sure that you post your application as soon as possible! That way, you can get started all the more quickly! Once you've started it, you have two weeks to complete your application. If it isn't completed in that time, we will move your application to the "Character Graveyard." If you want to come back and work on it again, let us know. We can move it back to the application area so you can resume your work. If you need help, please let staff know, and we'll be happy to do our best to help you get your application completed and approved.
  
  
• Please post with each of your characters no less than once every six months. Any character that goes unused for six months or longer will be "uncolored." To get that character playable again, the player will need to contact an admin for assistance. If your character is "uncolored," you will also lose that character's playby, jobs, journal, thread tracker, etc.
  
  
  

Run-of-the-mill guidelines

• I'll be nice to you, you be nice to me! Treat other members the way you want to be treated. Be social, be nice and we'll all get along swimmingly! If you do find yourself getting a little bit tetchy, take a little bit of time out and have a cup of tea and a biscuit. Sorted! But remember, we won't tolerate bullying or disrespect of any kind. Just be nice! Admins do make the final decisions here.
  
  
• We have a word count! It's only 100 words - not too much to ask for! Easy! Just give it a shot!
  
  
• Want to have a brood of babies? Just ask the admins (ahead of time, please)! We want to keep an eye on who's giving birth where, when, why and how!
  
  
• Avoid severe life issues if possible. If it is an impossibility, let's try to be tasteful and gentle, hm? It could have the potential to upset other members so treat the subjects of abuse, addiction, depression, suicide etc. with great care. We generally do not allow characters with chronic disabilities--either physical, mental, or emotional--for those same sensitivity reasons.
  
  
• Do not bring ic-drama into ooc conversation, please! We don't want any arguments! Have another cup of tea!
  
  

Graphics

• Signature mass size: 550x400. Avatar mass size: 150x200
  
  If they start to stretch the board we'll shoot you a pm and you're welcome to ask us to resize it or, even better, one of our graphics maestros! However, if it's not sorted within the week we'll have to delete it!
  
  

Updated by Khaat 9/25/14, 1/1/15

We'd all like the site to stay current. One of the snags we hit is with inactive characters that affect plot, jobs, factions, and a number of other things.  Its our intention to be fair to all players so in order to keep your character you must observe the following points.

• Please post with him or her no less than once every six months at minimum.
  

We will be posting a list of those who are about to be made inactive in order to give the players a chance to post but we will be deactivating any characters that have not been used in over six months.

• Once the character has been inactivated, s/he will be removed from the playby list, factions, jobs, etc.

If you want to reactivate your character, please contact an admin to have the character resorted. If it has been an extended amount of time since you've last used the character (i.e. months) however, we might ask you kindly to remake the application so you're sure you've still got a feel for the character.

Be aware that once your character is removed from jobs, pb lists, etc. that another player can indeed ask for that particular job or pb.  All pb's and most jobs are first come, first serve. You always have a right to pm an admin if you have a concern.