CODE OF CONDUCT

Our Code of Conduct comes with a zero tolerance policy.

Treat all members kindly and with respect.
Harassing or bullying other members will get you immediately banned.
Handle all disagreements in a calm and mature manner in private! Do not bring disputes into the public Discord channels or onto the RPG forums.
Playbys, even original artwork, under the age of 18 are permitted but prohibited from participating in any threads of a sexual nature.
No Bad Roleplay. If you don’t know what it is, read the definitions at the link provided.

Mature Content

Site Rating

You must be 18 to join the Sagas of the Wild West roleplay.

Our standard rating is PG-14. Threads and posts that exceed this rating will be marked as Mature and not available to the general public or members that have not opted into seeing and reading Mature Content.

Mature Content Information

We handle writing and reading mature content differently than most sites. At Sagas of the Wild West, each person can choose to opt in or opt out of writing and reading mature content. Guests and visitors to the site cannot read content marked as Mature by the player/writer.

Our site rating, based on the RPG Rating System is 333 which means graphic content is allowed. All of our members and Players are over the age of 18. However, extreme graphic content is and should be rare. Actual ratings on the in-character threads follows the movie/TV ratings system.

Sagas of the Wild West and its members are not liable if someone chooses to disregard the rating and read the threads and posts marked Mature.

See Account Registration and Profile Completion to learn how to manage Mature Content on this site.

CHARACTER DRAMA

The Sagas of the Wild West RPG follows the standard of being a Limited Consent roleplay as much as possible. However, if an admin has to step in to move plot thread forward, that will be done. The admin will attempt to minimize the impact on the character they are having to take control of.

Limited Consent

Limited Consent attempts to strike an even balance between consent and consequence. Certain negative consequences can be enforced without roleplayer agreement. Character death, physical damage, and other severe consequences still require roleplayer agreement. However if the roleplayer is absent without notice and has not responded to admin’s attempts to contact them, their characters can be written out in whatever manner the staff sees fit.

Sagas welcomes in-character drama in all of our plots. We prefer seeing a balance of action, drama, humor, romance, and contention. We strongly recommend OOC discussions when planning major character drama. The following guidelines are to keep the players and admin staff on the same page.

Character Death

You may not kill anyone else’s character without permission from the roleplayer. If the roleplayer has left the game without notice, contact admin. They will do what is needed with the character(s).

Character Contention

Please discuss character contention with the other roleplayer(s) involved and notify Admin also. You do not have to provide details, just let everyone know that the contention has been planned. We ask this so that no one mistakes in-character contention for behind-the-posts roleplayer contention.

Actions and Consequences

If your character is seriously wounded on Tuesday, he or she will not be engaging in battle on Wednesday. This goes for almost all in-character overt actions and words.

Character Reactions

Other roleplayers are not required to have their characters react as you think they should.

REQUIREMENTS

Sagas will always try to keep our RPG Requirements to a minimum. To keep the game flowing, we do have a few basic requirements to be aware of.

Writing

You must have a completed character profile (bio) before writing for that character. Posting should be done in-character (i.e. you need to choose one of your characters from the provided editor dropdown).

Activity

We do not require activity checks. However, if a roleplayer makes zero effort to post or engage in the RPG and does not have an official absence posted, their accounts will be moved to Inactive after 30 days. After 90 days, it will be assumed that they are not returning. All incomplete posts/threads will be archived. Their characters will be written out of all plots and stories.

Word Counts

We do not have a minimum word requirement plot posts. We do ask that your posts move the story forward and allow for a good response from your writing partner(s).

Joint posts (aka JPs) can become very long, very quickly as each writer adds to them. Please break your JPs up into 1,000-1,500 word posts. This keeps each segment at a very readable length leaving us all wanting more!

Character Limits

We have no set limits for the number of characters each roleplayer may create and play. However, we do suggest that you get your first character approved and into play before creating more.

ADVERTISING

Who May Advertise

Registered, active members of the Sagas RPG with at least one approved character.
Active Players on Sagas may upload affiliate buttons from other RPG sites on our Affiliate Application page.

Guidelines

Absolutely no advertising in Character signatures!
Active Players may post discrete PG-13 ads in their OOC signatures.
All signature images must be static, no gifs / animations allowed.
No more than one 700px X 250px ad or (4) 88X31 buttons in signatures.
As a general rule, a Player's buttons will not be removed from the site if they leave.
OOC signature advertisements must be for sites that the Player is a member of and/or on their staff.

Affiliating with Sagas of the Wild West

Click on the Affiliate Application button, main forum index, bottom-left on sidebar.
Read the Affiliating rules on the application page.
You must take our button and post it before we will approve yours.
Fill out the form and upload your PG-13 88×31 button.