Rules

These are our rules for the entire server. Please take a moment to read them over and familiarize yourself with what's expected of the board.

## Server Rules

1. Be Kind. If there is an issue with another member, please contact Bee or Ghosty directly and we will sort it out together.
2. Keep the general chats PG13. This includes no NSFW art, and no excessive swearing. We have a zero tolerance policy for NSFW discussions outside of the NSFW areas. If you would like access to the *nsfw-onlygrans-chat* chat dm an admin with your birthday (only really need month and year) so we know you're of age. If you would like access to the nsfw-onlygrans-chat chat dm an admin with your birthday (only really need month and year) so we know you're of age.
3. This is a safe place for members of the Granthrow community. Do not target members in chat or in dms. If you don’t like something someone said on the main server, please come talk to an admin so we can help resolve the issue, instead of confronting someone publicly.
4. Do not advertise anything non Arilyan related, unless discussed with an admin first.
5. We are an open community, to everyone from all walks of life. Do not discuss topics such as politics, religion, or your views on social situations. If you’d like to talk about current events, please request that someone DM you.
6. If you’re confused about anything on the server, ask an admin about it. If you fill in the blanks from someone else, they might not have the correct or updated information.
7. While we love creepy crawly critters, please put a spoiler on images with snakes, spiders, and insects, as we’ve gotten requests for this in the past. You can still post the images, just keep a spoiler ❤️
8. Nude drawings and suggestive art of that nature should go in the *nsfw-onlygrans-chat* chat but straight up porn should be left off this server

## Creating your Character/Character Masterlist

1. Do not take it upon yourself to add your gran to the wiki. The Wiki Team will do that once you post your gran with the correct form in *new-characters*
2. Picking a Name ::
	* ***Check the wiki when naming your character.***
	* A character cannot have the same name as another character, unless you ask the other person first, and even then, it can’t be spelled the same.
	* A character cannot have the same name or be named after a god or fallen god.
	* You can reserve up to 6 names, and 3 bloodline names. Please see Reserved and Bloodline Names for more information about this.
3. If you have a transgender gran please specify their gender and biological sex. This is to prevent any confusion when it comes to breedings, and to keep the character to the correct pronouns.
4. Please fill out the character form exactly as it is found. This prevents extra work done by the wiki team that is unnecessary. This includes spacing! Please don't add extra spaces to your forms!
5. If your granthrow has some sort of triggering history/personality please in all caps at the very top of your form add "TRIGGER WARNING" so people know not to click the character’s profile link.

## General/First MYO Rules

These are rules that only apply to your FIRST myo. For more information about all MYO grans, please visit this page!

1. Before making your granthrow, you must be a part of the discord server.
2. If you'd like to make your own granthrow please DM Bee, an Admin, or a Helper to get the myo lines.
3. MYO granthrows must be reviewed in myo-pending-submission-zone
4. You must follow the color and markings chart located in myo-granthrows-and-cubs otherwise your granthrow will not be accepted.
5. You cannot sell a MYO, however if your MYO has 3+ pieces of art, you can trade them for another character. This can only be done once every 6 months.
6. If you no longer want your artless MYO you can kill them off, or give them to the community to be raffled, and make a new one. However, this can only be done once every 6 months. If you kill off your character, you do get new MYO cubs, however please see their page, regarding rules, information and updated requirements.

## Bee's Commission Rules

1. Bee’s commission rules vary depending on the type of commission. Please view her rules at the time of the posting for more information.

## Adopts & Auctions

1. Bidding Rules vary based off the type of auction/adopt it is. Please view the rules at the time of adopt posting.

## Studs & Surrogates

This information pertains to the *studding-kings*, *surrogate-queens* as well as *breeding-tos* channels

1. Please only post your granthrow once unless an appearance change has been made. If you must repost your gran, delete their old post. If you are just editing their form do not repost the gran entirely.
2. There are two different forms, one for males and one for females. The forms are pinned in the respective chats. Please fill out those forms exactly. You may add a Note section at the bottom of these forms but do not delete any other area of the form.
3. When using a stud or surrogate you must confirm with the owner about the payment of using the stud/surrogate before claiming a commission slot for the breeding.
4. Please go over one another’s breeding rules before you go into the breeding. You are 100% allowed to negotiate breeding TOS, and please understand that once you agree to someone’s breeding TOS and the cubs drop, you will be held to them.
5. You must have your gran on the wiki before you can breed them. This is to prevent lost parents/cubs and to make sure y'all know if a gran breeding will end up being inbred or not.

* If you break someone’s TOS once, you’ll get a reminder to please check back in with your breeding partner.
* If you break it twice, you will be banned from the next two commission openings, for breedings only, even if it’s two of your own characters in the breeding.
* A third time and you will have to sit out breeding commissions for three months.
* A fourth time and you’ll have to sit out a whole year.
* If it happens a fifth time, you will permanently be banned from breedings.

## Granthrow Art Channel

1. Only granthrow-related art goes in this chat.
2. Art posted here must be PG-13 or less. If it's NSFW, post it in the *nsfw-onlygrans-chat* chat if you have access to it.
3. Anthro grans go in *non-gran-art* chat instead of in the *granthrow-art-chat* chat.

## Member Commissions

1. You may only post in this chat if you've been active in the community for more than 1 month AND at least have a MYO gran.
2. This should go without saying, but these are for GRANTHROW AND GRANTHROW RELATED COMMISSIONS ONLY, and must be of existing, group approved designs. You cannot make your own designs and/or sell them.
3. Only post your advert once and edit as needed. If you wish to reupload it, please delete the first one before you reupload. This includes updates.
4. Don't flood the channel with example images. Try to keep to a minimum 1-2 or 3 if they're small.
5. A single member may post multiple types of commissions so long as they're different types. (example, 1 for digital art commissions, 1 for pixel commissions, 1 for traditional, etc)
6. Do not chat in the *member-commissions* channel. If you have a question or wish to inquire or ask for a commission, take it to the dms please, as this is a place for adverts only
7. You are allowed to take “age up” commissions, but only for 20GBP, and you must go through the age up approval process in *general-pending-submission-zone*.

## Roleplay

The following rules are for our server and do not apply to dms/private rp servers, however, we do ask that you keep these rules in mind especially when minors are involved.

1. Please be mindful of everyone when posting in the public rp chats. If you're looking to start a new rp and someone has posted there within the last week maybe try finding a different rp channel.
2. Keep public roleplays PG-13 and under in rating for obvious reasons.
3. No god modding. This means don’t rp for someone else’s character, or say your character does something without the owner’s permission. Example: Instead of saying “He bit him” say “he tried to bite him”. This gives the person a chance to respond to the action, not forced into it.
4. Please RP in the following rooms.
	* *northern-rp*
	* *southern-rp*
	* *central-rp*
	* *eastern-rp*
	* *western-rp*
5. Keep all plotting in *plotting-and-development*

## Age-Ups

1. Post your sketch and/or lineart as well as the finished product of the age-up in the “general pending submission” channel on the discord, so that traits can be approved.
2. If you’re doing an age up commission, you can only charge 20gbp, and you must still go through the general pending submission process.
3. The fluff of the cub can be slightly changed, however please see the “fluff change up” sheet, regarding how much is allowed for each character
4. If you’re using a mane or trait changer token, please specify this when getting adult lines, so that admin can take that into account when approving.

## Questions Chat

1. Only staff may answer questions in this chat in order to prevent the accidental spread of misinformation.
2. Keep all questions respectful for obvious reasons.
3. If a rule or standard changes in question chat, we will try to remember to update it. However if you notice something has changed in the questions chat, but hasn’t changed on the server, please bring this to an admin’s attention so we can rectify this.
4. Please use the form for easier/faster question answering

## Adult Line Request

These rules pertain to cubs found in *adult-line-requests*.

1. If you see a character you’d like to draw adult lines for, please dm the owner, do not chat in the adult line request area.
2. Standard age-up rules apply here so please keep them in mind! This means going through the sketch and/or clean line to finished colors process.
3. You may post requests for your grans to get adult lines or you may post that you are available to do adult lines in this chat.
4. Do not go to people to request adult lines if they have not posted in this chat that they are open for it.
5. Just because someone says they’re open to help with adult lines doesn’t mean they’re obligated to help you. Artists may have too much on their plate, find the character too difficult to draw, or just not be up for taking requests at the time.
6. You may request alternate lines but the age up chat is mainly for cub age-ups
7. When adult lines are completed PLEASE DELETE YOUR FORM
8. If adult lines are being worked on please add a 👍 reaction emote so that other artists know that gran is being worked on

## Patreon Rules & Info

For more information, please head to *patreon-rules-and-faq* channel.

1. Please claim all of your correct items in order for them to show up in your inventory. If you forget to claim, please claim with proof of purchase sent to Bee.
2. Monthly Patreon accessories can only be claimed in that month or you miss out for that month. This means you cannot claim and save for later.
3. Monthly coats are one per month. You can get more than one though, for example you can claim one in April 2021, then claim one in April 2022, and be able to have two.
4. Preview is only a preview for upcoming adopts, there will be no preclaims and no early buys
5. Patreon coats, items and traits will be previewed in the granthrow-monthly-specials channel a few days before the next month rollover.
6. You get to keep all rewards for as long as you like. No one will force you to use them, or take them away.
7. The monthly accessories are patreon exclusive monthly accessories (dedicated to the theme of that month) you can choose to put on your characters.
8. You can trade your patreon items, coats and traits in exchange for items or another coat, but not for pinecones or money.
9. No cash refunds on items received from patreon

## Unwanted Granthrow

Please post your characters in *granthrow-resell-assessment* for accurate resale price

1. Granthrows purchased from Bee or anyone else in the group cannot be sold for more than what was paid for them. Example: If I purchased a gran for £40 from Bee then I can sell it for £40 or less.
2. You can sell grans that you obtain through breedings. A list of prices so you can know how to price your bred granthrow is available on the wiki.
3. You can only sell granthrow to the people of the granthrow community, unless you discuss this with Bee.
4. You may sell 4 granthrow per month.
	* The only exception to this rule is if you are leaving the server and talk to an admin BEFORE selling more than 4 grans.
5. If you have art of the granthrow that you paid for you may add that price into the price of your gran. This is only if you paid for it! Purchased art adds value to your gran up to the full art amount. This bypasses how you obtained the gran. Please be prepared to provide receipts, should the person buying the character from you request them.
6. Gifted art does not add any value to your gran at all no matter the method obtained.
7. Art YOU have made for the gran adds value to the gran up to:
	* £10 for headshot
	* £20 for full body.
	* £5 Shadows/base color/highlights as a minimum and/or detailed/complex backgrounds add an additional.
8. In order to ask for money for grans you received for free they must have 3 headshots and 3 fullbodies. This adds £10. Any art added onto this follows the rules listed above.
9. If you plan on selling your character do NOT promise breedings with said character. If you do breed with it and then decide to sell it before the cubs drop you MUST add in your sale post that the gran is expecting and that the cubs will not belong to the new owner. This is common courtesy.
10. When selling your granthrow, please review to the Reselling Grans page in order to get the proper pricing
11. When grans go into the Resell Assessment channel to have their price approved, ***NO ONE*** may go to the owner to ask to buy the gran off of them unless the owner has either put up the gran in the Granthrow Sales channel or has come to you directly and asked if you wanted to buy them. This rule extends to staff who can do private assessments as well. Even if the gran is a dreamie of yours, you must wait until the gran is posted publicly. This is to prevent hard feelings towards those that notice a gran getting assessed and immediately go to the owner before the owner has a chance to decide how or if they're going to sell the gran. Situations change all the time after all, they may have posted for assessment one day and the next not need to sell anymore.
12. When attempting to buy a gran from somebody, especially when that gran is posted publicly, ***DO NOT*** message others saying things like "Oh I really hope *I* get this bean," or "I'm going for this bean" or anything of the likes. This is also to prevent sour feelings toward others as it can be very hurtful and could make the person you're messaging those things feel like they need to back off the gran. That's not okay.

## Designing CYO/MYO

1. All CYO/MYO must adhere to their correct species colors, unless a special base is used. (colors will be updated shortly)
	* Granthrow, alkeru: Earth tone browns, reds, whites, blacks, and golds. No "bold colors".
	* Kubebathrow, Alkeru: Earth tone browns, reds, whites, blacks and golds. Can have slight shades of blue, purple, and pink.
	* Granthrax, granthera, carathrow, dwarax: Less "natural" shades.
2. When using a special base, please understand that other characters will also have said base, and there’s a good chance they’re going to look extremely similar. This is the nature of special bases, especially with minimalist designs. If you don’t want this to happen, please refrain from using a special base.
3. CYOs and MYOs of any kind can have complex/intricate markings, however this does not include:
	* Literal symbols (yin/yangs, distinct celtic knots, literal runes)
	* Words, letters, numbers
	* Logos/"paste into" images

### REDESIGINING, EDITING, OR CHANGING YOUR CHARACTER

1. Characters Purchased from Bee and OAs
	* You may make minor additions to your character purchased by bee, including adding a companion, adding scars, adding accessories, and slightly changing the way a mane falls on their face.
	* You cannot change the color, alter the markings, remove limbs, or drastically change the mane, without a mane changer token.
2. Characters Purchased with pinecones or won in a contest/event
	* You may make minor changes and additions to your character purchased with pinecones, including adding a companion, scars, accessories, slightly changing the way a mane falls on their body, blurring the lines of markings, or slightly changing the shape of a marking.
	* You cannot change the color, drastically alter the markings or mane (without a mane changer token), or remove limbs.
3. Characters won in a raffle or got in a secret granta game.
	* You may make minor changes and additions to raffle characters, including adding a companion, scars, accessories, slightly changing the way a mane falls on their body, blurring the lines of markings, adding slight markings, or slightly changing the shape of a marking.
	* You cannot change the color, drastically alter the markings or mane (without a mane changer token), adding drastic markings, or remove limbs.
4. You may add a trait upgrade to any character once they’ve been designed. Please read more about trait upgrades here.
5. You may add a mane changer token to any predesigned character. A mane changer can add any amount of fluff, change the color/design of a mane/tail (so long as it’s to a color that already exists on the design), and can alter the style of fluff on the body. You cannot use a mane changer token to make your character a poodle.