Harper's Tale General Policies

  • All behavior and interpersonal issues including those involving staff will be run by the wizards through a mail to Fyren, or to the mailing list *wiz.
  • There are two overarching Area Staffs (one for each on-camera coverage area, based out of the IC Weyrs: Southern and Igen). These staffs may number up to a maximum of 5 players.
  • Harper's Tale is on 3:1 Time (3 IC days for every 1 RL day).
  • All Blooded characters must be approved through the appropriate area staff (Igen coverage area = Igen, Southern Barrier and minor holds = Southern, NPC Weyr coverage = area you are applying to can determine).
  • All timing plots must be approved by both area staffs as a whole.
  • Harper's Tale is a Rated 'R' game. What this means is that channel chatter and public room RP should be limited to Rated 'R' content.

Player Conduct Policies

ICA == ICC Policy

On Harper's Tale, your In Character Actions (ICA) == In Character Consequences (ICC).

No matter where you are on HT, your In-Character Actions (ICA) will determine your In Character Consequences (ICC) — whether that means punishment ICly, disaster ICly or praise and promotions ICly. What you do, who you interact with, and how you play the game will determine how others perceive and react around you.

This is where our game guidelines come into play. HT has always been a consent based game when it comes to powerplay of your character as well as when it comes to the types of scenes that you, the player, want your character to be in.

Respect your fellow gamers. If someone is acting uncomfortable, don't hesitate to check. Likewise, if a scene is heading in a direction that you, the player, are not comfortable with it, then extricate yourself from it and/or have a brief chat with your scening partners. If most of the players in a scene want the direction to go one way, then they need to allow for graceful exits of people who do not want to participate.

The cardinal rule here is… Whatever you do ICly will lead to IC results. If those IC results are undesirable, you should refrain from taking the IC actions.

Dragonrider Policies

  • Harper's Tale does not have an on-camera Impression limit per player, but please note that all secondary/tertiary Impressions are at the sole discretion of each individual SearchCo. Those Co's are empowered to deny secondary Impressions by reason of not playing existing rider characters.
  • Additionally, Harper's Tale limits goldrider characters to one per player per any given time (IE, you may not have two goldrider objects concurrently).
  • Only female characters may Impress gold dragons. Only male characters may Impress bronze dragons. No character may ever Impress a white dragon.
  • Unlimited Insta (aka, AWAS) dragonriders; each insta request must be approved by an area (Igen/Southern). Each area will have their own policies regarding their treatment of insta riders. All riders must be affiliated with a PC weyr.
  • Please note that Harper's Tale does not permit 'special' dragon sizes, excepting for remakes of dragons who were made by past, pre-Reboot SearchCos. All dragons should fall into an appropriate size range based on their color and lineage. Please see our information on Dragon Sizes for the full list of sizes.
  • Only male characters may become Weyrleader; only bronze or brown dragons are permitted to catch gold dragons.
  • Per each PC cycle, PC Impressions are limited to 15 Impressions total.
  • Search-eligible characters are between the ages of 15 and 25, changed from the Interval ages of 12-24. This means anything over the age of 15 (15 and 1 day is acceptable), and under the age of 26 would be an acceptable age to be Searched.

Search Cycle Policy

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