Role-play Policy

[Balandar]

Out of Character (OOC) Discussion and Use of General Chat

Detailed below is the language policy enforced on the Role-Play servers. Use of the /ignore command is also highly encouraged.

The General Chat Channel should only be used for finding Storylines (SLs), finding Party Groups, and various other discussions pertaining to the Base Storyline (BSL), game-related topics, and continuity.

The General Chat Channel should NOT be used for any "Off-topic," Non-Storyline, or non game-related discussions.

Absolutely no out of character (OOC) or non-fantasy related dialogue should take place in the /Say, /Yell, or Party chat channels.

Guild Chat will not be policed for any fantasy related violations.

All normal harassment rules (which can be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/policy/harassment.html) still apply.

[Balandar]

I posted the above so nobody is placed on a person's /ignore list or warned by a GM. After the first few weeks GM's will start cracking down on people who do not role-play (I hope).

A lot of people did not know if /party is for IC or OOC. Party chats are for IC role-play. General are for groups and quest information. Guild channels are not moderated.

[DashZero]

What policy do we want to use? I tend to:

Stay mostly IC on the guild channel "/g".

Use "/4" (the skullcrusher channel) as an OOC channel.

I don't monitor the general channel at all - that really helped.

[Balandar]

I do not follow the public skullcrusher channel as much as the guild channel, if anything the public channel should be IC since anyone can join that channel. I say we stay in character for /guild. Just use (( text )) for OOC or “ooc”. The more we blah in orc the better we get and the game is more immersive.