Community Rules

1 - Community Rules

• Respect - Treat your fellow community members with respect. We are a diverse and inclusive community. Harassment, discrimination, stalking, shaming, or other disrespectful or toxic conduct of any kind will not be tolerated. Disparaging comments against race, religion, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, political views, or any other protected equal opportunity category will not be tolerated. While dark themes are allowed for discussion, do so with tact and care. If someone feels uncomfortable - respect their boundaries. The community management team reserves the right to remove disruptive or toxic users from Outlands RP’s servers at their discretion.
• Spam - Do not spam or advertise other communities while using our server.
• Impersonation - Do not impersonate staff or other community members. If you are caught intentionally doing so you will be permanently banned from the server.
• NSFW Content - Keep NSFW content in the NSFW section of the discord. No illegal content whatsoever should be posted on the server.
• Trolling/Flaming- Continuous trolling or flaming of other community members will be met with a ban from our server. We get that sometimes things get heated and we don’t want people to have to walk around on eggshells, but we won’t tolerate people continuously hostility.
• Adults Only - We are an 18+ roleplaying server. Anyone found to be underage will be banned at the discretion of the community management team until proven otherwise. Additionally, characters played on the server must be at least 18 years of age and not depicted as childlike. Dark and mature themes are allowed in roleplay and in OOC discussion, but consent is required for any such discussions or erotic role play (ERP) OOCly. Consent will be respected at all times. Additionally, this is not a safe space for pedophilia. Do not discuss it, post any content related to it, or engage in any RP involving it.
• Abuse of Game Mechanics - Abuse of glitches or bugs, exploiting loopholes, using Conan Exiles mechanics in a hostile manner to disrupt roleplay, and other unintended mechanical outcomes are prohibited. This includes things like changing your size without the in-character ability to do so, performing construction in the middle of hostile RP, or using chairs that are partly sticking through walls to sit your way into someone’s base. It also extends to using other mechanics to troll or grief other players, including but not limited to repeatedly blowing on horns/knocking on gates and running away without any RP purpose or stacking so many heat sources on your gate that it’s impossible to stand in front of it without roasting to death.
• Discord -  Discord is required to play on the server. All players must be on the discord server, but you are not required to use the same name as in game.
• No Streaming -  Streaming Outlands RP on Twitch, Youtube, other public platforms, or the Outlands RP discord is prohibited. This is to prevent metagaming and to avoid streaming potentially mature content written by other players without their consent.

2 - RP Etiquette

• Be Considerate - Be considerate in your RP. This is not to say that you can't be in-character hostile, or that your goals can’t conflict with the goals of other players, or that you should never interrupt someone’s plans. We expect, and even hope, that you will. But when you’re engaging in RP with people, whether it be hostile or friendly or something in between, please take the enjoyment of other players into consideration. You are not in a single player RPG surrounded by NPCs who only exist for your entertainment. You are taking part in a collaborative hobby that should be enjoyable for everyone involved. Don’t take someone captive and leave them rotting in your dungeon twiddling their thumbs or sitting in a corner with no one to roleplay with. Give them a unique and memorable experience. Likewise, if you end up on the losing end of things, try not to be so salty about it that it spoils the fun. Remember that it’s a game.
  • Roleplay isn’t a competition, even if our characters are competitive. Try to make sure the people you’re with are having fun and aren’t being made uncomfortable. The stakes we create in roleplay are all artificial, and as much as we need them for the story to be engaging, they’re ultimately there for fun. Try to keep that in perspective.
• Stay IC - Remain in-character at all times while on the server.  The only time you may travel OOCly is when returning to your body or when in Out of Character areas (such as the character creation area)
  • OOC communication should be reserved for DMs, and should not be posted in local chat. The exception to this is quick OOC communication to indicate that you have to go AFK, deal with a technical issue, ask for clarification, or other similar things. Keep it short and relevant. OOC chatter in local breaks immersion, so avoid it.
• No Metagaming - Information obtained Out of Character cannot be used In-Character. Additionally, the sharing of In-Character information Out of Character is highly discouraged in order to preserve immersion and mystery, and to limit spoilers and metagaming.
  • Players may not discuss In-Character occurrences in the Outlands RP discord. While we will not police private discords and DMs, we do encourage players to voluntarily adopt this philosophy in their own private spaces for the benefit of the entire server’s roleplay.
• No Powergaming - Powergaming is defined as removing control of another player’s character through your emotes or mechanical actions in-game. This can come in a few forms, such as not allowing people a chance to react to your words or actions, making emotes that dictate another player’s actions, walking away without allowing people the opportunity to emote, or otherwise removing the autonomy of others.
  • Examples include:
    • Emoting hitting a character rather than attempting to hit them and making a roll
    • Picking a character up against their will without giving them a chance to respond
    • Posting repeatedly or out of order without giving other players a chance to respond
    • Taking numerous actions in an emote without giving other players a chance to respond
    • Walking away from RP without emoting or giving other players a chance to respond
    • Emoting another character’s reaction to a circumstance
    • Emoting another character’s appearance without their permission
    • ‘Finding’ evidence that wasn’t left behind in a POI , emote, or in-game item by that player
    • Ignoring the effects of a spell cast by another player
    • Ignoring a character’s attempts to restrain you (without initiating PVP)
  • The sole exceptions to this rule are when you have explicit and specific permission from the player in question, or where regarding actions taken in the course of PVP consequences. However, even in these cases you should be using proper RP etiquette and giving players the opportunity to respond to emotes.

• Immersion - All characters and roleplay must adhere to D&D lore, related to official campaign settings and materials. These include Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, and Eberron. Characters from other settings (Conan included), games, or other works of fiction, or from Earth, are not allowed.
  • Additionally, characters should not speak or emote in ways that break immersion. Use of overly modern language or things like media references in dialogue, in-character use of modern songs, or other anachronisms that detract from an immersive D&D setting are not allowed. This also applies to names as well as /act names. Players are encouraged to make use of D&D lore resources such as source books, Dragon Magazine articles by official sources, and resources such as the Forgotten Realms wiki. More sources of potential lore information can be found on the discord.
• Adult Characters - All characters must be adults physically and mentally, at least 18 years of age. Child characters or characters acting as though they were children are not allowed to be played on the server. Additionally, characters played on Outlands RP may not become pregnant.
• Don’t Freeze RP -  In case of an OOC disagreement during RP, whether regarding the roleplay or game mechanics, it should not halt the RP. Reach a resolution and continue, or postpone it for later. Prolonged discussions and delays are undesirable. Exceptional issues such as powergaming, rule breaks, or abuse are the only valid reasons to pause RP indefinitely. If such a dispute arises, open a ticket and wait for the outcome before addressing it IC. Repeatedly interrupting RP for OOC debates will not be tolerated.
• Warps - Do not camp waypoints or portals and try to avoid clustering around them to RP. Give a little bit of distance so that every person who comes in or out of the warp doesn’t automatically feel obligated to emote.
• RP Avoidance - You may not ignore others in RP. If someone emotes at you or is typing nearby, you are obligated to respond and give them a chance to reply back. Your character can prioritize their own safety, completely disregarding people is not acceptable and is a form of powergaming. Your character may ignore someone, but you as the player cannot ignore other players.
• Fade To Black - Fade to Black, or FTB, is a helpful tool for preserving story in situations where time or player comfort/well-being may prevent an RP from being played out. It allows for closure when real life takes precedence. When a scene is faded to black, the player leaving should briefly discuss the basic details of the outcome with other involved players. This can range from a basic understanding to a more detailed discussion, depending on the situation and comfort levels.
  • If a player needs to abruptly FTB without deciding the terms, others should find the easiest way to remove them from the scene without affecting their character's options. For example, placing them in an unlocked cell allows for the option to escape or continue the roleplay.
  • FTB should never be used as a tactic to avoid consequences or the losing end of roleplay. Players who abuse FTB in this way will not be tolerated.
• Erotic RP - ERP should be contained to private server locations and always require consent. Clans can set individual rules for ERP in their territory, and players must respect these rules. No coercion is allowed and players should communicate boundaries through /channel messages.ERP cannot be given as a PVP consequence, unless express consent is given by the defeated party. RP must not include scat, beastiality, ageplay, or pregnancy. We will ban players who disregard this and pressure others into unwanted ERP.
• Abuse of Game Mechanics - There are many scripts on this server designed to faciliate roleplay. These include things like the jobs system, bounties, rituals, and a number of other things. These systems are mostly automated, but given the nature of the medium they're not always going to be airtight. These systems should only be used in a manner consistent with the roleplay around them. If you're doing things like triggering job statues without the accompanying roleplay, or trying to find loopholes to get around ritual mechanics, you'll lose access to them and may be banned. The same applies to triggering rituals and just waiting out the timer with no RP.
  • If you do find a bug or an exploitable loophole, please do open a support ticket or make a bug report. It's fine if this happens accidentally and you report it, but we take hiding it pretty seriously. We set up webhooks and logs for this stuff, so we absolutely will notice.