- Please tell me if you are leaving for a while so that I know you didn't just quit! I have the right to replace anyone that I don't see on frequently! This is especially applicable to high-ranks!
- Please respect all the people on this site! Do not ask for really personal information! Something friendly like asking their name or something is allowed, but you do not have to tell anybody anything about yourself if you don't want to. Just say something like: "Sorry, I don't really want to share that!"
- If you see any cyber-bullying, swearing, spamming, or any rule-breaking or offensive posts on the site, please report it to one of the admins! If you get caught up in something like that, it is best to ignore whoever is doing it. If you give them attention, it will get worse.
- No power-playing other characters! This means that you cannot control anyone else's character, or pretend to be someone you're not! This also includes adding cats in your description or story without asking them first, or using battle techniques improperly.
- If you have disappeared, I will typically give you approximately two months to return. If you do not come back within that time, I will delete your characters!
- I'm sorry but Tom-tom and She-she relationships are not allowed! We are not against such things. However, the books do not have them and for the sake of the site, it will not be allowed.
- You may only have a name that is appropriate for your Clan or rank, and a name from the books, or that the cats could know about. For example, no names related to Twolegs or something that the cats wouldn't know, like Citypelt, Galaxyfur, Butterwing, Posterpaw, or anything like that. The name "star" is never allowed for the forest Clans, unless you are a leader and it is your suffix! Also, we only allow names such as Autumn, Winter, Summer, and Spring if you're using "spring" and "fall" in reference to the action. But cats do not know what winter, summer or autumn are! This goes only for Clan cats! (If you are a kittypet who has joined a Clan, or have an otherwise convincing backstory, you may keep your name. The leader of the clan can choose to make you change it, however.)
- There cannot be two cats with the exact same name in the Clans because it gets way too confusing. Kits and 'Paws can have the same prefix, as long as their suffix is different when they earn their warrior name. Eg: Two Pebblekits in ThunderClan is fine, as long as they are given different suffixes. (if a leader makes the mistake of naming two warriors the same, I expect you to alert them of it (this also includes acceptance of characters. No one is perfect, so please help them!))
- If you are joining a Clan and have a non-Clan name, you really should change your name because that way, the leader knows you will stay loyal to the Clan. However, if you really want your name, you may keep it, but I will not allow this if it gets out of control (like having half the Clan with non-Clan names).
- Your character, of course, can have talents, but with those, they also must have flaws. You cannot be good at hunting, climbing, running, swimming, healing, jumping, and fighting all at once. You may pick one or two that you excel in. Otherwise, you are basically a super-cat, which is boring for everyone that is role-playing with you. If you make a kit, you cannot say that they are good at fighting or hunting because they aren't allowed to know how. However, you could say that according to their build, they will likely make a good fighter or hunter in the future.
- Your cat is only allowed to be of natural color, such as grey, yellow, black, brown, white, etc.) and any shade of those colors. This includes eye color!
- Please respect your cat's rank in the Clan! For example, kits cannot fight full grown warriors without getting easily killed, and leaders must lose lives somewhat often, but the major thing is that warriors are not allowed to use herbs like a medicine cat. No warrior would want a medicine cat giving them battle tips and hanging around the training hollow all the time getting in their way, so please respect that! The only exception is, if some cat is dying and there is no medicine cat there, you can use easy herbs like catmint or cobwebs because it's an emergency! Even if you joined the Clan knowing herbs from your past, if you were a respectful warrior, you would leave that job to the Clan's actual medicine cats!
- Also, remember that a kit has not been trained in the slightest, as it is against the warrior code! So for example, if I see something in your description about how your kit is a great hunter, I will take it out because that is impossible! The only exception to this is if your cat was from somewhere else first, like BloodClan, where they didn't have such rules, and they may have learned battle or hunting skills. Also, no cat besides the leader should be ordering the Clan around (except maybe the deputy), making ceremonies or announcements, or going onto the high-ledge.
- You are not allowed to create a character that has more than one life like a leader. This is is unfair, and many people will soon want to do it, creating several seemingly impossible-to-beat characters!
- You may only have one mate at a time. In the books, there were absolutely no cats who had several mates at a time or anything sketchy like that. You may also not have kits until you are a warrior. Also, it is extremely inappropriate for an older apprentice or any aged warrior to have a crush on a kit, or a warrior having a crush on a apprentice. That's basically the human equivalent of a teenager having a crush on a toddler! Along with a grown adult having a crush on a teenager. A young apprentice or kit doesn't even really have a proper concept of love anyway, so please go easy on that!
- Absolutely no swearing (obviously warrior insults are fine), and no inappropriate content and spamming/non-stop advertising (advertising and spamming are allowed in specific topics) is allowed!
- Your character cannot be in two places at once, or "teleport" around. For example, you cannot post in the camp when you are supposed to be in the territory, patrolling. I know sometimes people do this by accident, but please don't knowingly skip around the topics. This also means that you can't randomly appear in the den of another Clan's camp. There may be a situation where you enter the camp unnoticed because there were no patrols going on, but there is no way you can pop up into, let's say, the nursery, without someone seeing or smelling you first! Cats can smell intruders easily and they always have guards at camp for that reason!
- Please use battle techniques fairly! Posting something like "Thistlefoot jumps out of the way before Snowtalon can hit him and rakes him across the nose, then pushes him into a tree," is power-playing because you don't know how Snowtalon would have reacted after you scratched his nose. Posting that message implies that Snowtalon did nothing to defend himself, which may or may not be true. An easy way to avoid this is to break up the techniques. For example, you could post "Thistlefoot jumps out of the way before Snowtalon can hit him and scratches his nose," then wait to see Snowtalon's post, then post again after, according to what Snowtalon last said. It's no fun to fight someone invincible, so I mean, unless you are fighting a kit or something, you are obviously going to get somewhat injured.
- Please don't beg the admin staff to make you either an admin, or to allow someone back on the forum after they have been banned! We ban people for a reason; they are harming the site, and we want the site to be as friendly and fun as possible!
- Do not rant/flame/moan or argue over any punishment you may have been given. If you truly believe it was/is a unfair punishment you may contact one of the other mods/admin to hear your story, the admin/mod's story, and choose whether or not the punishment is appropriate, or to give out a new one.
- If someone repeatedly starts trouble or drama they risk being banned accordingly.
- Do not fail-rp: Like power-playing, fail-rp can be hard to spot at times. Fail-rp is when a player allows their own emotions to affect their character's emotions or actions to a drastic degree. The reverse can happen too. You should always be aware that your character, while yours, is someone else with a different life, different feelings, and different motives. Try your best not to let your feelings dictate their actions, but also try not to let something that happens in the RP bother you too much OOC. (Example: Person1 had a disagreement with Person2 recently, who plays the mate of Person1's character. To get some kind of 'revenge' against Person2, Person1 has their character suddenly break up with Person2's character.)
- If your queen has kittens with some else's cat, then you must have at least two kittens. One of these kittens must go to the owner of the father unless the father does not want the kit(s).
- When you create your first character, type "Red-headed, fire-breathing dragon" above your character's name.
- Please inform leaders when your character needs to be made a warrior or apprentice! Your characters are your responsibility, so you need to understand that.