TANNER HILL was created by Rabiddog. The skin which includes the Board Mod, Mini Profile and Sidebar are created by Dorothia @ Adoxography. The tabbed sidebar was created by kimset of RPG D'. Plug ins were made by their respective PB Support member. All other information which includes but is not limited to, Character Plots, Character Applications and more belong to their rightful owner.
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1. Keep it clean, follow the proboards rules. No R stuff, no porn, etc. Just fade to black – you don’t need to be explicit for us to get the idea.
2. Maximum avatars are 150x300 pixels. Any bigger and it will stretch the page, and a staff member will resize it.
3. Please be mature and show respect for others around you. Know that everyone here is equal and has equal power over the RP, and that every person is actually a person! If you have questions about this (the general idea, not just that people are people… but, I mean, that, too), just ask a staff member. We’re always happy when people ask questions (we feel useful)!
4. We like correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation here. Note and know, please? We understand mistakes, so don’t worry – we don’t go looking for blood. Also, please refrain from frequent chatspeak. If we wanted to work hard to decipher languages, we would just look for hieroglyphs.
5. One character per account. The maximum number of characters you can have now is unlimited, but you must be active with all of them, or else some of them will be taken away and put in the canon list.
6. IC (in character) stays IC. Don’t bring IC stuff OOC (out of character) or vice versa. We all just wanna have fun here, and that fun goes kaput if drama springs up around us and sucks our brains out from our ears. If something seems to be starting that is a problem, contact a staff member and it will be taken care of.
7. The canon list is not a set of plot-necessary pre-made characters. The canon list is a list of desired characters; it is easy to apply for one, and it means you don't have to make a thread yourself to ask for them to be played. Just look on the thread here for information on that. It will be frequently updated.
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Last Edit: Dec 31, 2012 11:28:58 GMT -5 by Rabiddog
1. As said before, everything explicit must be fade to dark or just end. Proboards actually has rules about that. When it comes to violence, there may be some, but don’t make it overly gory and R-rated. We want to keep this site fairly clean and fun for everyone, not just a few.
2. No controlling other people’s characters. This is called power-playing and is a big no-no.
3. No Gary Stus or Mary Sues – these are “perfect” characters who are beautiful, fun, smart, suffering from a horrible past but overcoming, able to solve every problem to suit everyone with a snap of their fingers, is friends with everyone except the evil, conquers Sauron on a daily basis, defeats Voldemort for breakfast, and only gets mad when his or her friends are being threatened, and, though normally non-violent and weak, suddenly go into a rage and can destroy Troy’s walls without removing the statue of Pallas Athena. They’re boring and not much fun for other people; go for interesting characters! -->On this note, also know that characters for which you must audition are: important ranking officials for Netherfield Associates, police, and Vigils, at least for now. Regular ranks are fine. Also, you may make a connection to the Tanner family if you want, but, as of now, no CEOs.
4. Do not make your character invulnerable to life (or, more aptly, death) and able to do everything. This is called god moding. It is really frickin’ annoying and is a huge no-no.
5. Time passes, for now, as it does in real life: one week in real life is one week on TH. This is subject to change, so look for announcements about it.
6. Your character may be any sexual orientation you want. We really don’t care; variety can actually make it more interesting.
7. No official word count here, but don’t make us regret and change that. Put effort in, and we would love to see at least two nice paragraphs, but we understand issues. Just give something for your partner something to which they can reply. It’s really no fun if the only thing you get is a couple of sentences, especially when you give a one thousand word post. If you don’t feel so hot about your abilities, there’s still no reason to fret! We’re here to help: just go to the writing help board, and somebody will be there in no time.
8. See this thread here for information on gangs/groups and how to create them.
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Last Edit: Jun 26, 2013 0:19:43 GMT -5 by Rabiddog
1. As mentioned before, no powerplaying or godmoding or anything of the sort – people control their own characters. Another huge no-no is autohitting, which means that “Bob runs at Jill and slashes her throat with his Knife of Doom and she bleeds to death” is not allowed. What the proper thing to do is “Bob runs at Jill and jumps, slashing his knife toward her throat in the hopes that he can slice it and leave her bleeding to death on the pristine marble steps” or something. Always give the other person a chance to respond!
2. Regarding the outcome of fights, you have several choices: you can decide amongst yourselves beforehand who shall be the victor, you can decide during the course of the fight, or, if you cannot decide at all, a staff member will say something. Most of the time, you take care of it yourselves, but if there is a major battle or something, then a staff member may have the final say. We don’t like controlling your lives completely, believe it or not! (Well, some of us… maybe.)
3. Weapons that your character would have realistically are allowed, but remember the realistically part. This goes for skill, too. If your character is a pauper or beggar, then she might have some dirty fighting expertise, but she would maybe just have a small knife for a weapon. If your character is, on the other hand, an actively hunting vigil, then he would probably have a big glob of materials and weapons as well as professional military training.
4. Winning isn’t always about size or brute strength, but be realistic. If the pauper and vigil above met and fought, there is a greater chance that the vigil would win (unless there were circumstances such as the pauper finding the vigil in a dark alley after he had gotten drunk, then the pauper would probably have the advantage).
5. Play fair and don’t get upset. Everyone wants to win, we know, (almost) nobody wants to have their character maimed and mauled and constantly losing (those that do obviously just want to hurt the poor dearies they create, the fiends). Your character does not have unlimited stamina and agility to dodge every attack and escape from huge battles against equally skilled enemies without a scratch.
