General Rules

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General Character Guidelines:

Originality can not be stressed more importantly. It is vital that your character belong to you and only you. Plagiarism is highly frowned upon and will lead to banishment. It is advised that you spend a lot of time thinking and planning your character out before you submit them. Get to know your characters. As cliche as it sounds become your characters, and not the other way around. It's important to stay in character and let your character guide you.

Any characters that even slightly resemble (history/personality wise) someone else's character or a canon character, either from books or TV, will be declined.Try not to be too cliche, you can have a great Kindred character without them being a Lestat or Louis clone. Try to keep it as realistic as possible, though, without going out of character.

Character Profiles and Getting Approved:

After reading the Disclaimer and the rules/guidelines the next step is to submit a character profile/history to the Character Approval section. After following the correct format and submitting your character's history you must wait until one of the Admin approves you. Until your character is approved you can not post in character on the forums.

-- Correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar are highly stressed here. If it's possible we advise members to type their posts up in Word or a similar document with spellcheck before they post. Don't get lazy, we expect a high quality of posts from all our members, not just the older ones.

-- Be detailed and descriptive. One line posts will be deleted. If you are at a loss for words then try to describe the scenery or what the characters are wearing or doing. Your post doesn't have to be a novel, but we expect decent size posts just as much as good quality posts.

-- God-Moding or controlling other people's character either in thought or action is highly frowned upon. You do not have control over anyone's characters but your own, so don't try to. Also, just because your character is an Elder or Master Whatever doesn't give them dominion over others.

-- Respect. Respect your Admin as well as your fellow members. If an Admin tells you to do or change something, then do it right away. We don't appreciate having to repeat ourselves. Don't argue or fight with other members, if you have a question about how something should be done take it to one of the staff.