Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-13593058-20161027192002

Hey Fanon, Dust here. Though I rarely make posts on the forum, let alone the News and Events Board, I find it necessary to inform you all of the updated Guidelines.

So What Has Changed?
Looking at the big picture, nothing really. Some terms were clarified and the rambly style of the rules have been fixed to a more "fact of the matter" tone, but I still recommend that all users reread the guidelines once again before attempting to create anything else; this goes for any characters in pending as well although reviewers (like u/Nice Things and I) have already been operating under these rules for the last 2 months or so.

There are however, some newer quirks that I will mention in here.

Summoning Semblances Enabled
Yes! Summoning is now an acceptable Semblance! You guys can thank me when you see me as I argued this one with the staff with little opposition; it only needed someone to bring it up and have the rules hammered out for it to exist.

However, that does not mean your character is free to just summon a dragon out of nowhere willy nilly. We, the RP Staff, have agreed upon a set of rules that are open to changes as flaws in them are discovered.

As such, SUMMONING SEMBLANCES WILL REMAIN UNDER HEAVY REVIEWER DISCRETION.

I have written a sub-guideline for Summoning Semblances specifically that you can read up on here, but if you want the TL;DR version of it, which I highly do not recommend you take as each rule have 10 asterisks trailing behind them, nonetheless:

4. No "God" Summons
In essence, these rules are so vague at face value, you might as well lower your heads and READ THE DAMN GUIDELINES.

Team Names
While we have no control over what team names can be and are limited to, you are encouraged to discipline yourselves in these rules which fall under Monty's Colour Naming Rules.

One such rule we have missed for the past 4 VOLUMES was that of team name rules which I caught and fixed during the Guideline re-review.

Starting TODAY - OCTOBER 27TH, 2016 

"If a character is in a team, then the FIRST CHARACTER of their FIRST NAME must fit into a four letter acronym spells a team name that must also be..." and you know the rest. 

If your team was created post this date, it will be automatically rejected.

Incorporeal Semblances Remain Unacceptable
You can blame Kerry and Miles for this. While Ruby has been shown in the Volume 4 preview to not only be able to GO FAST, she apparently can turn herself into rose petals and split into 3 distinct clumps of said rose petals.

Unless otherwise stated as Semblance Evolution or a ret-con of Ruby's Semblance, INCORPOREAL SEMBLANCES REMAIN UNACCEPTABLE.

Rule of Cool in effect unless otherwise stated. 