OOC Rules and Standards for PoB

## **OOC Rules**

### **Roleplay Etiquette**

Roleplaying is, at the end of a day, a hobby and something we do because we enjoy it. So it'd only make sense to show mutual OOC respect to someone who is enjoying the same hobby. So, in order to show examples of what constitutes as disrespecting someone's right to enjoy this hobby among other things, rules have been compiled to show examples of what breaks Roleplay Etiquette and OOC Rules.

#### **Out of Character Harassment**

This one is self-explanatory, but you shouldn't go out of your way to harass someone oocly within the community, or really in general. Stuff like this is just a sad display of targetting someone, don't harass people unless they *really* did something bad, and if that's the case, why make a big deal about it?

#### **Metagaming**

Metagaming in roleplay is the act of using OOC Character information that your character doesn't know, and using it to influence roleplay. This disrupts the flow of the game, and you will *not* be punished lightly if you repeatedly metagame, as it ruins the experience for everyone.

#### **Private Roleplay**

This type of roleplay game is all-inclusive, that way people can have their own stories and characters, but also interact with other peoples' creations and characters, so private roleplay—unless in a special event or something similar—is strictly banned in every other case.

#### **Powerplay**

Controlling someone's character's actions outside of an IC reason/power to do so, outside of *Fear Roleplay* which only is active in specific situations. For example, one can't blow someone's brains out and then say that all spectators nearby began to worship him as some sort of God, that would be controlling *someone else's* character and making them act out of the ordinary in your favor. Powerplay is another strictly banned aspect.

#### **Explicit Roleplay**

Explicit roleplay could be either putting too much detail in things like blood and guts, or it could be procreation. The first of these two, is completely unrestricted in Prohibition of Blood due to the violent era of mobsters, corruption, and the supernatural this game takes place in. This doesn't mean keep describing details that bring people to the point of sickness, if someone asks you to stop, *stop*. The latter of the two examples of Explicit Roleplay however—the procreation part—is banned in game no matter what.

#### **Metagrudging**

Metagrudging is a huge category, and there are a bunch of examples of it but to summarize it, it's the act of oocly not liking a certain person so you go out of your way to target their character icly for little-to-no reason besides that ooc dislike of them. Examples of Metagrudging are as follows:

* Making throwaway characters to constantly target someone.
* Constantly ICly targetting someone in general for the same OOC reason.
* OOCly being biased to someone and having someone ICly barred from your faction just because you don't like them that much(there are exceptions where you can bar people from your faction if you feel like they're a detriment oocly and icly).
* Among many other examples based on the same premise of "OOCly I don't like you, so I'm going to ICly target you"

#### **Lorebreaking**

Lorebreaking is doing someone out of line or time-breaking within the lore. For example, since this is the 1920s, so don't rp using the latest cellphone in game, those don't exist. This is pretty minor and can be fixed with a suggestion. People that repeatedly break lore are probably going to be told to stop roleplaying for a bit to take the time to understand the setting the world takes place in.

#### **OOC Trolling**

Going in game to mess with and disrupt other people's experiences on the game because "haha funny". People on the game want to enjoy their experiences in roleplay on this game, so constantly taking people out of that experience for a laugh is disrespectful. No tolerance policy, OOC Trolling is a warning-kick, then a ban.

#### **Loopholing**

Loopholing is taking the time out of your day to find very specific situations that the rules happen to not *explicitly* mention, and exploiting it. No, just because the rules don't explicitly say "x" thing, you can use your better judgement and realize these rules are generalizations, and therefore have implications with each of them.