General Roleplay Rules

Players are free to roleplay to their heart's content here, but before doing so, we ask that you please keep the following in mind before you roleplay with other players or come up with characters.

1. Roleplay Content

1. Remember that Lioden is a website that is suited for a 16+ audience, not 18+. We ask that you avoid graphic descriptions - if you wouldn't see it while exploring, it probably shouldn't be a roleplay topic.
   
   1. Mating and sex-themed roleplays are not allowed. If you wish for mating/sex to occur, it's fine to mention it vaguely that it happened, or mention a "fade-to-black" screen occurred in order to skip any sexual descriptions.
      
   2. Attempting to get around the previous rule by searching for players willing to roleplay anything NSFW, adult, or 18+ off-site is not allowed.
      
   3. "Forced breeding" is considered to be mating/rape, and is not allowed.
      
2. "Slave" and/or "slavery" roleplays are not allowed if it's being done as a roleplay's main theme. If it's going to be a brief situation within a roleplay, this is fine, as long as it avoids slavery containing child abuse or sexual abuse.
   
3. Roleplaying as children is not allowed. We would like to avoid any situations that can lead to a roleplay describing the abuse of children in any way, shape, or form. It's fine to have children as supporting characters, but they cannot be playable. As Lioden is a 16+ site, we consider any person that is the age of 16 or above to not be a child anymore. Your characters can only be a minimum of 16 years of age.
   
   1. An exception to this rule is when players are roleplaying as animals: cubs, kits, etc. that would be family members, pride members, and so on, that age up as the roleplay progresses. The rules that apply with young animals would be no sexual abuse, and no "early heats".
      
4. "Dog fighting" roleplays are not allowed, if in reference to the illegal kind that involves humans betting on the survivability of their dogs.
   
5. Any illegal topics (ex. drug cartels, murder, rape, etc.) are not allowed if it is the main theme of a roleplay, similar to the functionality of our slavery rule.
   
6. Describing murder within roleplays is fine, so long as you take caution and avoid being overly graphic or offensive. A good example of our limits regarding gore and murder would be our anti-poaching event for March. We highly recommend not going any further into details than the encounters you would see in explore during March.
   
7. We allow a character's history to contain problematic topics (such as drug abuse or rape); however, we must underline that you cannot describe their past situations in detail, so that our content rules are not breached. A brief mention is fine.

2. Advertising Your Roleplays

1. Any advertisements must be done through the Roleplay Channel in our chat box, or by bumping your topic in Chatter.
   
2. Your advertisement must be in relation to Lioden threads. We do not allow off-site advertisements. If your roleplay is located off-site, such as a roleplaying forum or within a Discord server, then we request that you create a topic within Lioden's Roleplaying forum in order to advertise it. You can link to your thread within the Roleplay Channel, provided you include a disclaimer on your thread that they will be redirected off-site, and to continue at their own risk.
   
3. Searching for or hosting off-site roleplays is allowed, so long as you create a thread with a clear, visible disclaimer that the roleplay is being conducted off-site. Please keep in mind that you cannot directly link to an off-site roleplay within the Roleplay Channel; you must create a thread and advertise it through there.
   
4. When advertising your roleplays, "mature themes" and "struggles" are allowed, but must be kept safe for a 16+ audience, meaning there must be no illegal or sexual themes, and any explicit scenes be forced into a "fade-to-black" scene.

3. Characters and Art

1. If you did not receive permission from the artist to use their art as your roleplay character, don't use it.
   
2. If you did not receive permission from the character owner to use their character as your roleplay character, don't use it.
   
3. Photos are allowed, but must be credited and linked to their original owner's source.
   
4. Any attempts to circumvent the official Character Sheets feature (by hosting your own character sheets thread in the Out Of Character subforum, hosting your character sheet off-site, deleting your Character Sheets thread, etc.) are not allowed. Anyone who is found doing this will have their thread locked and posted on by a moderator, or privately messaged by a moderator informing them to use the official Character Sheets feature, so that we may properly track players who are using photos for their characters.
   
5. Any posts made in a Character Sheets thread that do not contain a character sheet are considered to be spam, and will be deleted and handled accordingly by staff. If you want to let a player know that their character is accepted in your roleplay, please PM them.
   
6. In regards to "placeholders" or "work-in-progress" character sheets, you have one week after creating the post to edit the character sheet with a proper form. If your post is still empty or looks like it is in progress after a week, you will be approached by a moderator to see if you will be updating the post. If a few days pass since you were contacted by staff, and your post is still empty or a work-in-progress, your post will be deleted.
   
   Our rules may be changed or added to at any time, so please remember to check back frequently, and have fun!
   
   

For All Roleplay Character Images

You must link to the original source of an image - this would be the place that the image was originally posted on by its creator/photographer.

You CAN:
* Use free-to-use lineart, as long as the artist allows use of them.
* Use doll creators, as long as the artist allows use of them.
* Use art that you have created with your own hands.
* Use art that you have commissioned specifically for yourself.
* Use a gif from a movie if you link back to the movie's IMDb page.

You CANNOT:
* Source to an image "collection" website, such as Pinterest. Unless the original photographer has posted it there specifically, this is not the original source of the photo; it has been reposted.
* Save the image and re-upload it yourself to Imgur, Tinypic, or similar websites.
* Source an image where its copyright clearly states "All Rights Reserved".
* Post "all rights belong to the author/creator/owner, not me", or any variation of this. This is not a sufficient way to source an image.
* Use art that does not belong to you, unless the copyrights allow it, and are clearly visible to our site moderators where the art is sourced.

If you're unsure of how copyrights work, please use our Official Roleplay Image Copyright Guide for help on finding images you're allowed to use!