Basic Site Rules WIP

Welcome to Naruto Age of the Past, a place where you can experience the ninja world in a time before Hashirama and Madara.
To make your stay here enjoyable, and to keep the site fair for everyone, there are a few rules you must follow.
If you do not follow these rules, then you may get hit with corresponding penalties.

1. Only one character per account, please. To create another character, make a new account. More rules on this can be found below.


2. All accounts must be named after their corresponding character. This is done so that we can keep track of characters. We will not accept any accounts with names like "fdnarvhdajfvier".

3. Every member of Staff has the right to enforce these rules. If anyone attempts to break the rules or find loopholes to get around them, staff has the right to void the post or topic.

4. Bumping threads is allowed, but you must wait a minimum of 24-hours before doing so, and it must have a reason.

5. Please try to post more than one line’s worth of roleplay to give the other posters something to reply to. 50+ words would be ideal.

6. Don’t swear excessively, unless it is in-character, in a post. Don’t try to use the excuse of ‘but they will have heard it already!’ when referring to potential youngsters who may be present either – they may not.

7. Godmodding is not permitted. This is where you control another person’s character, or even try to hit them through 'autohitting'. Godmodding also consists of mentioning clans or other characters in the starting of wars or other things without their consent. Not only is it rude, but it prevents the character’s original controller from acting out potential actions.

8. Don’t post adult content. This is against our host provider’s terms of service, is rude, and in some cases, illegal.

9. Your character must be approved before you can create a roleplay post with them. To create a character, look for the character creation area, read the rules and fill out the form shown.

10. Advertising is only permitted in the advertising forum. You are not permitted to advertise in your signature, chatbox or posts elsewhere.


11. Please don’t misuse the mass PM feature by sending pointless messages, spam and suchlike.

12. Be polite to those around you. Do not harass or degrade any other member.

13. Put out-of-character comments in brackets, to distinguish between in-character actions in your post.

14. If you wish for your character to leave an area or village, they must leave all topics from their current location beforehand.

15. You can be in, at maximum, 3 threads at one time not including mission threads or other minor topics. The rules for #14 must be followed for this to apply.

16. Metagaming (using outside knowledge in the game world to gain an advantage) is not permitted.

17. Be realistic in your actions. Your character can’t block a sword swing with 150 sharpness with only their finger.

18. All actions your character performs must have a reason behind them. For example, you cannot have your character start a war against a village or another clan just because "you want to".

19. Once you obtain stats you cannot change them. You may move stats you've obtained between stat fields on the day you received them. Once you have entered a major event or a battle your stats are locked in place.

20. After 48 Hours in a topic, if someone has not replied to the topic you are allowed to skip the person and continue. In terms of fighting one on one, this means that you can claim a hit after 48 hours; If fighting with multiple people the next person in line to post gets to post; In terms of Village Takeover, you automatically win if no one defends the village within 48 Hours. Upon request, a staff member can post on a topic if multiple players are involved, to confirm that 48-hours have passed, thus forcing the next person to post. If you post an away message, you may be exempt from being 48-houred, in your away message you must have a date of return, the 48-hour timer will begin on the date of return at 6am.  If you do not have a date of return, then you may still be skipped.  All staff members will be allowed 72-hours before they can be skipped, due to having to manage the forum while doing their threads.

21. In Character(IC) Ryo, items and weapons cannot be transferred Out Of Character(OOC). OOC Ryo can be transferred OOC; Stats cannot be transferred to someone else without a special Jutsu or Skill.

22. You are allowed to have animals as summons, but you cannot create a character that is an animal.

23. You are not allowed to copy and paste any RP post from this site or another site. An example of this would be copying someone else's post, changing a few words around and claiming rewards for it as if it were your own. There are plenty of other examples but the main point it DO NOT copy and paste.

24. All jutsu used on NAP must be registered and approved by staff.

25.
Character suicide is allowed, but we ask that you have a reason for killing your character off. It's not fair to have the staff review everything for a character, only for it to die randomly because you are bored.

26.
Flashback topics, for the most part, are not allowed. Flashbacks are meant to flush out a character. You may not train or learn jutsu in a flashback. It must be made up of things that actually happened.

27.
Copyright applications.
This rule allow players to retain the uniqueness of their creations, thus having jutsu and weapons unique to them, without the worry of another player making the same exact creation but with a different name.
Should an app be reported as a rip off, a link to your creation must be provided with the accusation.
After reviewing both applications, if one has to many similarities to another, the staff will ask for the move to either be remade, or deny it if there is no way to fix it.
Make sure you search before you post, to make sure you are not making something someone else already made.

28.
Signature limit. We have a limit on text, and as such there is a limit on what you can put in your signature to keep it from stretching the posts, and causing threads to lag. You may only have 1 GIF image, and at most two pictures in your signature that include the Gif image.


Penalties for breaking these rules will be handed out by staff that will fit the offense.



Glossary:
Void: The post you make no longer counts in the topic it was made in
In-character: Communication between the characters
Out-of-character: Communication between the players
Metagaming: Using out-of-character knowledge that your character would not otherwise know in-character to gain an unfair advantage
Autohit: Unfairly hitting the other player's character without giving them a chance to respond
Godmod: Controlling another person's character or potential players

Staff may select their own punishments based upon the severity of the situation.