Rules & FAQ | Wolfstory RPG

General Rules

Listen and obey the mods. We do our best to be fair when we have to lay down the law - please do not make it difficult for us.

Respect the natural diversity of everyone, and use common courtesy. If a user is making you uncomfortable, take your concerns to a mod. We're on your side, and we want to make this environment as accepting as possible. Transphobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, rape jokes, or any other kind of intolerant behavior is not permitted.

Do not advertise anywhere outside of the respective page. Any violating posts will be deleted.

Wolfstory is a mature forum with some adult themes involved in and out of character. If you are sensitive towards that kind of thing, we don't suggest you join us for your benefit and ours. That being said, if someone is making tasteless comments or jokes, please raise your concerns with a mod and provide screenshots of the incident.

Be active! Don't join Wolfstory if you don't think you can commit to being here at least semi-regularly. We really appreciate a heads-up if you're going to be inactive for more than a week, or if you're quitting. We won't be mad at you if you decide to go - just let us know so that we can respond accordingly.

In-Character Rules

Unless your character has been approved by a moderator, you are not authorized to roleplay them.

Use your best grammar and punctuation when roleplaying. Another thing to add is that we don't want you abusing the thesaurus and using huge, completely unnecessary and out of place words to try and look intelligent, because often times those words don't mean anything close to what you think they do. This has been a trend in a lot of RPGs and we aren't a fan of it.

Do not use wolf-speak/wolf terms/Blossom Forest RPG terms.

Your character cannot kill another user's character without their express permission. Please refrain from godmodding and power playing as well. For more on how we handle fighting in-character, check out the Game Mechanics page.

Do not roleplay your character as if they magically possess OOC knowledge (meta RP). Additionally your wolf cannot automatically hate another character (auto-hate) just because you've had OOC disputes with their roleplayer in the past.

Do not roleplay gratuitously sexual scenes in public threads. If your posts are heading in that direction, fade to black.

Your character cannot have any kind of special powers or supernatural abilities. Your wolf must also be realistic in terms of appearance - no adult wolves with baby blue eyes, no wings or scales, no feathers, and no unnatural coat colors or markings, though it's fine if your wolves have creative scars.

No self-insert characters. We're sure you have a great personality, but we don't want you running around Aktesh on four legs.

If you would like for your character to get pregnant, please ask permission first. Each litter has a max of 4 pups with very few, usually plot-related exceptions. The roleplayer of each parent can only take one pup each - if you cannot find an RPer for the remaining pups before they reach the age of being able to walk and talk, they will be deactivated and declared dead of natural causes.

Do not carry in-character aggression over to OOC convos. What happens in roleplay stays in roleplay.

Roleplay Notes

All threads are live, meaning they are all happening at the same time. This means only one thread at a time per character. Let a mod know when a thread is finished so they can lock it for you.

Newcomers to public threads that already have long, ongoing conversations should be polite when considering posting. It's always appreciated when someone asks permission before jumping into a conversation that may or may not have become exclusive.

In Wolfstory, we have things known as sub territories. Sub territories are roleplay locations inside of larger ones; for example, a sub territory in Tamarack Forest might come into existence if a pack created a camp inside of it. Sub territories are necessary to organize the forum and minimize cluttering. See the page Pack Logistics for more information.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is this?

A. Wolfstory is a play-by-post, semi-realistic, open-world wolf roleplay forum open to writers of all skill levels. If you're new to forum RPGs, head over to roleplayforum.com and read up.

Q. How long has Wolfstory been around?

Officially, we've been more or less open since August 2015. However, planning for Wolfstory has been underway since September 2012, when WS was originally first drafted by a much younger, much less experienced creator (the same one who's writing this FAQ!). Since then, we've moved site hosts and are now settling permanently.

Q. How many characters can I have in Wolfstory?

A. As many as you want. However, we ask that you don't create more characters than you can handle - you don't want to waste potential, or a really good name that somebody else might want to use! If you create a character but never use it, or barely use it at all, mods reserve the right to wipe them from existence or auction them off to a new roleplayer if they have too much history to be removed.

Q. Does Wolfstory have a word count?

A. Nope, we think it sucks some of the fun out of roleplay if you have to constantly strive to reach a certain amount of words. It can break up the flow or make it take longer to write scenes that would otherwise take 5 minutes - we try to keep things fast-paced here unless longer posts are in order. Besides, it also just doesn't vibe with our atmosphere. Although, if your roleplay partner is writing long, detailed posts, it's polite to pay them back with more than just a sentence or two in return.

Q. Why can't I have posting tables or signatures?

A. We want to keep things looking clean and simple, like the pages of a book. That's not to say you can't have beautiful profiles or create artwork, though! We love fanart, manips, and short stories. We encourage users to make things, just upload them to sites like deviantART or postimage.org and link us back!

Q. How does Wolfstory roleplay?

A. Third person, past tense. Character thoughts are italicized, dialogues put in quotations. Basically, RP like you're writing a book.

Q. Where's the cbox?

A. We don't have one! Instead, we have a Skype group where we all get together and chat. Once you're accepted, a mod will message you for your Skype username and we'll add you to the group. However, if you're not interested in joining, you can get ahold of us in the Guestbook.

Q. What's the OOC environment like?

A. Things are pretty relaxed and friendly - nobody really wants to deal with anymore drama than we already have going on in real life. Most of us are older roleplayers ranging from late high schoolers to college kids, but we don't mind members coming from younger crowds as long as they fit in. We're a lot more lax about grammar and all that while out of character, no capital letters or punctuation is required if you don't want. We're more or less all friends but we're not big into forming cliques, and for the most part we're all on a first name basis as well, though you don't need to disclose your name if you don't want to.