HE is now up and running for 3 years and it was always the aim of its Administrators to provide a fun environment for everyone, to meet everyone’s needs and yet maintain some quality of excellence to it.

The Administrators were never very strict and allowed every member to let their creativity run free within the realms of RPG, however it is now felt that due to this lack of rules and guidance the quality standards of RPG have now fallen below the laws of common sense. RPG is in itself an art of writing, not chatting through posts and must therefore be treated with respect and dignity.

Also, there are a lot of members in HE who just RPG, it is therefore the job the Administrators to pay more attention to this section of the site if this is the only part of the forum they get to see and experience. HE has rules and standards of quality that should be kept everywhere.

The new rules are not up to discussion and any topic/post that fails to meet the rules criteria will be deleted without notification. To implement these new rules the RPG section will be reseted! All the threads were moved, not deleted so you didn't lose your posts but now it's time to start over, from the scratch!

That said the new rules will follow in the next post. Thank you all for your attention and for your time in reading this. The HE Administrators and Staff appreciate your understanding.

Raistlin The Wizard,
On behalf of all HE Staff.

The main concerns when writing down these new rules were the amount of badly written posts as well as the huge amount of topics created all the time.

1 – The 5 lines rule is reinstated. This means that ANY post below 5 lines will be DELETED. As proven in the past members can cope with this 5 line rule fairly well. This allows the next person to post to have something to work with. If you post just one or two lines, even if it’s a dialogue this means you are mostly chatting through posts! RPG is all about your abilities as a writer to show others you really are ‘another’ person or character, the more detail you can put into it the more others will be convinced of your performance. There are RPG chat rooms if you are more prone to a quick answer and reply RPG style.

2 – Each member is now allowed to post only a maximum of 15 threads/topics per week! If you don’t post your 15 topics in a week they will not accumulate for the next week, it is only 15 a week, never more. Even 15 threads are actually a lot if you think about it. Why create so many threads? That will implicate you not paying so much attention to both your posts and threads as you’ll have to struggle to keep bouncing off and off a gazillion threads. You should learn to focus on a few threads and really develop your writing skills and the quality of your posts which will not only make the act of RPG more fulfilling but as well as provide a better reading to others. 5 good ones are always much better than 15 poor ones. Quality is always better than quantity, always!

3 – Grammar & Spelling. Please you are RPGing and not chatting! This means that proper attention must be paid when writing your posts! I do understand that not everyone’s grammar is perfect but we all know the basic rules of writing! Punctuation is needed! Initial capitals are mandatory! If you fail to get an expression down correctly or even the correct verbal form it’s not important but some basic rules are just common sense after all if you keep writing badly constantly it’s more likely you’ll start to write like that in real life and for important papers for school and work, so it’s better if you keep your writing skills sharp! RPG can help you with it! The same way you wouldn’t write a fic or a paper with no punctuation whatsoever the same principles apply to RPG! Once more I focus that RPG is not chatting! Post and topic titles all in caps WILL BE DELETED as well as the ones who fail to have initial caps! Posts with no punctuation will so be deleted!

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Three simple rules that make all the difference! The violation of these rules will result in the deletion of the post and topic that is infracting the rules. Repeated violation of these rules will result in the issue of a warning in the member’s warning bar and ultimately the permanent ban of that member from the RPG section of HE.