General Guidelines
1- Respect, the other People. this means when someone asks you to stop something (like killing them, calling them names, generally being annoying, whatever) As long as it isnt that much of a hassle you probably should stop.

2- Remeber, Remeber that this isnt just a group of people in a Tavern on some world. Its a group of Real life people Roleplaying sometimes at other times just talking. This is actually probably the most important Guideline.

3- Recall, well kinda. this ones hard to explain. because sometimes you dont want your character to die and you are to foolish to run away or you werent given a chance to you may wish to stay alive as that character. Normally its best to find a way to use this Rule to an IC solution. Some good examples of this would be Someone Raising your Character from the dead. Or that blow that severed your arm didnt kill you but made you a crippled. Or.... Your armor protected that death blow enough that you didnt die. Other Applications is your character is simply unkillable but it takes a deal of time for your body to return to normal.

Generally speaking this is common sense, If you have any problems contact at StoneTavern@hotmail.com

OOC Chit chat- General Guideline

As long as it is not breaking respect for anyone and no one minds. Feel free to do as you want. This is your place to relax just as much as it is anyones

Characters- Suggestion

So you dont know how to write up a character? Well lets hope this helps you let me outline some steps first and then in the end I will give you examples
Step 1 Idea
Step 2 Expanding the Idea into form
Step 3 Expanding the form into a story
Step 4 Expanding the Story into an attitude
Step 5 Expanding the attitude into values
Step 6 Expanding the values into a Character


Well firstly you need an idea

Just about any idea will do from the farmers Daughter to the Gods of creation

Secondly, you are going to want to make that Idea into a form sometimes that
is the same thing but the idea in this stage is to start to decide on what
this character is what they want here what they do here.

Thirdly, you want a story what brought y ou here did you wander in? or were
you molested as a child torn apart by demons and reformed in pain as an
immortal mummy? what happened to make you and what affects you

Fourthly, from the story, you should start to see your characters attitude.
Forgiving, loving, hating, molesting, bitter, exstatic, cheerful, polite, reserved ,
silent, this can be your characters Idea as well.

Fifthly, from your attitude you should see a lot of Values for example
if you are the bitter dog of a farmer who is has lost one leg but found
true love you are probably going to be fierce in protecting what you love
but as long as people dont try to take it away you will be kind and
caring to them

And now you have an amazingly intricute design for your character most of
your powers and weaknesses should be apperent but you probably have details
to refine date of birth and such


Now for some examples

Idea: HUGE black dragon

Form: Sosinsky a big dumb black dragon

Story: After falling into hibernation to survive the killing by his parents
his growth inhibitor was not produced enough to stop his growth so he grew
on and on till he woke up later in his life old but not intelligent. huge
but not exactly smart

Attitude: Arrogent proud cunning and fast

Values: I am the best biggest and by far most superior nothing can challange
my right of domination on this ground you will be my meals one and all if
you wish it or not all I need to do is catch you and pickle you

Character: A huge 1600' wing spand and 1400' long black dragon spits acid is
incredibly tough and fast with others of his size

Strengths: All that is dragon is him, massive size and some spells fear
factors and such

Weaknesses: His real name controls him, massive size, ignorance and
stupidity arrogence and he is ignorable for the most part as he is more talk
then attack unless you are a threat he will likely leave you be




Idea: Guile An Old man

Form: An old man who seems rather active

Story: Spending many years in the military he eventually found a place and
called it the stone altar he became connected to it the powerr of it keeping
him alive and the power he gives it keeping it changing and thus alive

Attitude: Friendly for the most part hard to cross patient silent and old

Values: Theres a lot more to learn I hope one day I can see it all before I
die till then why waste the time fighting? I have seen much to much bloodshed to
enjoy it

Character: Old harmless almost a speed bump to demons magicians and fighters

Strengths: Amazingly Agile for one of his age and in shape

Weaknesses: The altar itself gives him this strength and without it he is
weak



Idea: Half skelatal healer

Form: A young mage fighter who can heal by taking injury onto himself

Story: During a very early healing before he had refined his ability he
tried to raise some oen who was dead with it the resulting pain demolished
half of his face and all of his arm into skelatal structure his mind remains
strong but he was always afrad to expose himself to other people who might
wish to use his power for thier own advantage

Attitude: Scared reserved almost feared

Values: If only I hadnt If only I knew more If only I could have done better
If only I hadnt failed

Character: Strong easy to cross levelheaded but remarkably silent and
normally uninvolved

Strengths: Spells fighting long sword and broad sword age healing and General
cuteness

Weaknesses: Ugly scary and reserved not liked never respected and always on
the verge of killing himself

StoryLines- Suggestions

Generally when you are creating a storyline you need four things

1- Friends to do it with
2-Characters to do it with
3-Enemies for the people to hate
4- A method to drag people into it

A good Storyline will be able to have an unlimited number of people enter it and exit it without any problems also it will be able to go on even after the villian is removed. Good storylines are not always unique sometimes they are simple. When you are playing in a storyline and you dont want anymore people involved Find a method to control them yourself.