Rules (MUST READ)

Site Etiquette

The site etiquette is a list of general guidelines to help keep your experience pleasant on the site.

• Treat everyone with respect.
• Think before you act.
• When in doubt, ask for help.
• Be patient with others. Everyone has a life on this site, including the staff!

These general guidelines will help you in the long run.

Communication Rules

Unlike our site etiquette, these are rules that must be followed. Failure to follow them may result in penalties against you.

• Do not advertise without explicit written permission.
• Do not flame, harrass, or attempt to solicit a hostile response from others.
• Do not use discriminatory remarks such which includes sexism, racism, or other forms of prejudice on the site. It is not tolerated
• Be respectful to others

Species

Your character can be almost any Pokémon species that can be legitimately acquired at level 5 and below and is not a legendary Pokémon. However, if a pokemon possesses a baby form, then the character must be the baby Pokémon. For example, Riolu is the baby form of Lucario. Though it can evolve at any time under the right conditions, your character must first be a Riolu. The same applies for Pichu and Pikachu, Budew and Roselia, to name a few other examples.

Also, be sure to check the Banned Pokémon thread for character species that are currently banned as they cannot be used as until the ban is lifted. Some bans are permanent however and will never be lifted; such as the ban on Wailord and Phione characters. Ultra Beasts as well as both Legendary and Mythical pokemon are also banned. The species ban list is located here.

Names

Your character's name can be from any language as long as it is spelt using english letters. Symbols from other languages such as Japanese, Kanji, or Russian is not allowed. It must be a phonetic English language spelling of your character's chosen name.

Level

Everyone's character is required to start either at Level 5 or lower. There is no exception to this. Note that you do not need to start at an earlier level, even if your character is young. You're only hurting yourself if you start at a lower level. The rules detailing battling and levelling are here.

Affiliation

Your character affiliation is who or what they associate themselves with. Guild members affiliate themselves with the guild they are a member of. Other than guilds and shops, there are various independent organisations that you can apply to be a member of. Each of these is listed here. New members are encouraged to contact the heads of independent organisations when creating their first characters to see whether their character can join or not. Outlaws are discouraged as first characters and only particularly well-thought out applications are approved first time. This is due to an influx of particularly weak outlaw characters that ended up giving people difficulty in getting threads, rendering them stuck. "Echo Characters" are entirely forbidden as first characters.

Appearance

Your character cannot be a different colour unless it is a shiny, melanistic, or albino Pokémon. This means no extra spots or stripes, no odd coloured fur. Not even your character's eyes can be different from the official artwork, unless they are shiny. Special Pokémon applications cost more poké than a normal Pokemon application. Other appearance differences such as Spiky-Eared Pichu, Poké Ball Pattern and Fancy Pattern Vivillion, and Dusk Lycanroc cost the same amount of poké as a shiny and so will not be available as a first character for new members. If you wish to have a shiny Dusk Lycanroc, you will need to pay both the 'special form' cost and the 'shiny' cost for a total of 15,000 poké for the character.

History

Firstly, your character's history has to make sense both in context of itself and the site as a whole. For example, including humans in your characters history would not make sense, as the world it is set in has no humans living upon it and never has. Your character's history also cannot have any interactions with legendary Pokemon and it is not permitted to have a history with another person's character unless you have their express permission.

You cannot name specific places in your characters history nor come up with particularly noteworthy establishments like entire continents and large cities. You can say they came from some village, were born on some volcano, or something of the sorts, but it cannot actually be named unless it is a canonical place on the site. Also note that you cannot purposely hold back information from your history. We need to know everything about your character just in case there's something that wouldn't be admitted.

Moveset

A character can start with one Egg move, but no TM or Move Tutor moves. Your character can then have any combination of moves that it can learn before or at Level 5.

Move sets are a little tricky now that Pokemon no longer carries every single pokemon into the next generation. When looking at your level up moves, use the most recent generation your pokemon is available in if the generation is not currently on lock down for spoilers on the site. Move Tutor moves and TM taught moves from across all generations. If your character's most recent game is Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, then use Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.

TMs can be purchased from shops and there are Pokemon you can turn to if you wish to learn a Move Tutor move, however these pokemon must have passed a test from the dojo in order to be able to teach you the move. Think of it as a degree in teaching a specific move. These Pokémon could potentially also demand a fee for their time.

You are allowed four moves to start with; however, as of May of 2016 we have added the ability to purchase additional move slots. You may purchase up to two additional slots totalling to 6 moves for your move set. The price of additional slots is 800 Poké.

Abilities

As with the games, your character can only have one ability but if you wish, your character can have a Hidden ability instead of one of the standard ones. If your character's ability is something such as 'Honey Gather' or has some kind of effect outside of battle and you are unsure of how this would work in the context of the site, then simply PM the head admin to make arrangements for the ability's use and implementation. The ability will then be posted here so that those who use the ability in the future will abide by the same rules. It is entirely possible to find ability capsules to change your ability, but your ability will always follow its proper ability path. A Run Away Eevee isn't going to evolve into a Magic Bounce Espeon.

Bio Applications

Regarding Character Bio Applications, you are forbidden from posting on bios that you do not own unless you are a staff member designated to handle bio applications. The application is between the poster of the bio and the staff only!

Adopting Characters

Any character belonging to an inactive site member is put up for adoption and adopting a character is rather easy. All you need to do is fill in an adoption application form in the Adoption board and wait for it to be either accepted or denied. Upon acceptance you can claim ownership of that character and use it as if it were your own. Please note the following restrictions below.

• In order to adopt a character, you must have at least one character of a higher level than the adoptee.
• Shiny/miscolored characters are available for adoption, but you must pay the difference of 5,000 Poké (as this is what the different coloration costs in character creation). If the original RPer returns and wishes to have their character returned, you will be refunded this cost.
• Shiny/overleveled characters are put on restricted access and require far more work to be put into adopting them in order to weed out users who just want an easy shiny/high-level character.
• All of your current characters must have been used OR leveled up by you before you may adopt another.
• You may only adopt a character once your first character reaches level 10. You are able to adopt up to two characters once you reach this threshold. You can then adopt one more character for every five levels you gain on a character originally made by you.

Posting Rules

• Roleplay posts must contain a minimum of 100 words. Notes that are not part of the roleplay are not included!
• You are not permitted to make a post in a RP thread that is solely an out of character (OOC) post. Your post must contain at last 100 words of roleplay otherwise it will count as breakage of this rule.
• You may roll a maximum of 10 times per character per page. However, the restriction is reduced to 5 rolls per character per page for event threads.

Thread Etiquette

• You should not join a thread without first asking the users participating in that thread. The only exception is if the thread title states [OPEN], however it is still polite to do so if there are already two users posting in said open thread.
• Remember to edit [OPEN] out of your thread title, or not include it in the first place, if you do not wish users to join without consulting you and the other thread participants.
• You are free to leave a thread whenever you want, but you should notify all participating users in that thread that you are no longer participating.
• Before requesting for a thread to be locked you should check with all RPers in your thread to make sure that everyone is in agreement that it should be locked. If you cannot contact the other RPers in your thread, and they have been inactive for over a month, then you may request for it to be locked regardless.
• Generally, RPers should post in a thread in the order they joined, however you may come across a situation where you wish to swap the posting order. Please remember to discuss these types of post order changes with the other RPers in your thread beforehand.

Character Records

After your character is approved, you cannot and should not edit the bio in any way, unless a staff member has given you some last minute tips on how to improve the layout and or content. Instead, when keeping track of your characters inventory and progress, you must create a topic in the Character Records board. You MUST keep track of your records and keep them updated; this is not an optional procedure. A template has been created to assist you in what fields everyone is reccomended to keep track of, however as long as you incude all of those fields in your Character Records, you can organise it however you want.

Be aware that you can only have one thread per member, though you can present and lay out this thread in any way you like. If you have issues or need help you can contact a Record Checker, Moderator, or Admin to ask questions.

Character Threads

Each character starts with a five thread limit. You may purchase additional thread slots for 1000 Poké each. You may not have more unfinished threads than your character's limit allows. Any threads started or joined by characters that have been sent to the archives are exempt from the rule. If the afore mentioned character is adopted, the thread may resume. If a thread has gone inactive, where someone has not posted in a month, you may have a staff member lock the thread.

Dungeons and NPCs

Dungeons in this world are not set "floors" with stairs for you to reach unless the environment would logically contain them. As an example, there isn't any stairs in Pecha Forest, as it's an expansive forest and not a literal building. When you're in a dungeon, you'll be required to follow the energy system detailed here. While in a dungeon, you cannot spawn in non-player characters at your leisure and must roll them in the dice for that dungeon. The encounters you roll are not required to be hostile and can be simple interactions and stories you perform with those non-player characters.

If you need to spawn or interact with an NPC, however, you may create a social thread. Any thread that is not in a dungeon is automatically a social thread and NPCs can be spawned and interacted with freely, however, important NPCs such a legends, guildmasters, and other assorted noteworthy characters can only be controlled by staff and cannot be summoned into casual threads without staff's approval.

If you wish to have a social thread in a dungeon, then you may tag the thread as [SOCIAL] in your title. Doing this means that no rolls will be permitted in the thread and items cannot be obtained. The trade-off for this, however, is that you may summon NPCs as you like. Anyone caught abusing this system, such as creating some big bad level 100 charizard to be your character's body guard, will face consequence and be dealt with at staff's discretion on a case by case basis.

If you are controlling an NPC, you have to have your own character somewhere in the thread. Only NPC Roleplayers and staff roleplay NPCs without the presence of their characters.

Status Ailment Enforcement

When you are using the energy system, dice included, you may encounter pokemon that have colored bubbles with shortened version of the status ailment's name. When these occur, you must add these ailments onto your character depending on your character's level.

The ailment must be applied to your character if their level is lower than the energy cost of that particular rolled pokemon plus 10. For example, if you rolled an item costing 5 energy, and your character is level 12. You would have to apply the status effect as your character needed to be level 15 or higher to be allowed to ignore the status ailment.

If your character's level is 10 levels lower than the energy cost of the thing that inflicts the poison, your character gets badly poisoned. The effects of these status conditions are explained in the Energy System Thread.

Note: You are only required to enforce the first ailment of your roll within a particular post.