Roleplay Rules

• Be kind and respectful to other players during roleplay encounters. Conflict is natural at times in roleplay between characters, but players and their characters should always be treated with a reasonable level of respect.

• You control your character. Other players control theirs. As an example, let’s say that two characters were to engage in a wrestling match. You can say that your character moves to grab the other character’s arm, but you shouldn’t describe how the other character reacts as that is up to the other player. Using dice rolls to help determine outcomes is a great way to tie the interaction back to your characters as well.

• Yes, and! Collaborate with other players on what is happening in a scene in a way that builds on what has been done and continues to add new elements.

• Follow the Community Guidelines. Northern Reaches and the roleplay between sessions are taking place as part of the broader Knights of Last Call Community and follow the same community guidelines as the rest of the server. To be clear, this means no sexual content or overly gratuitous violence along with other community rules.

• No spamming. Chatting in common roleplay channels or your venues will reward a passive amount of RP XP, though each message you send should be thoughtful, meaningful, and tied to your character. That doesn’t mean it needs to be long. Make messages as long or short as they need to be to convey what you want, but try to focus on setting scenes and interactions between characters.

• Use your own words. While chatGPT and similar tools can at times help to provide some inspiration to a message you are working on sending, you cannot simply copy and paste messages from AI tools like chatGPT. Use your own words and only as many as needed to convey your vision.

• ((Out of Character)). You can use ((  )) symbols to surround any out of character conversation needed to align on a scene or next steps between players. This could be used to discuss the rules for a roll on a contest or simply to make sure that players are on the same page about where a scene is headed.

In Town Actions

Players start with a total of FIVE “In Town” Actions / week as well as THREE "In Town" Reactions / week. Players do NOT start with Hero Points for “In Town” actions, though they can unlock them via Perks or gained through Town Blessings. These actions and Hero Points are shared between all character slots a player possesses. Players cannot use Fortune effects other than these Hero points to alter their rolls for In Town actions, though any skill bonuses that are applicable can be used.

Any social “In Town” action that would be an interaction between players requires only one player to spend the action unless otherwise stated and also allows the players to exchange gold or resources as needed. The Trade action is required to exchange any items. Any rolls for “In Town” actions should be made in Discord in the #rolls channel or directly in the associated scene or venue channel.

Your character may have other unique passives, actions, or activities available via class or skill feats. If any of these feats reference the Craft action, they will use the rules listed for the Craft action here instead for determining costs and limitations. 

You must check for or request rulings from #council-hall on how these feats interact with downtime in Northern Reaches before using them. An example of this is the Inventor skill feat which would allow a player to spend an "In Town" action to try to invent a new formula.

Please see the In Town Actions for more details on the individual actions available.

There are also unique actions available for each venue depending on what venues players create, so be sure to check those as well at Venues!

Venues

Venues are customizable locations that are player managed for Roleplay and downtime support. Players can choose to purchase a Venue with their Player XP or RP XP by purchasing the “Setting Up Shop” Perk. Afterwards, the Venue can be further customized and improved with additional Perks.

When initially creating a Venue players will be able to choose ONE Passive and ONE Action from the list of available options further below. There are lots of unique combinations of Passive and Actions available to help you create your ideal venue. If an Action selected for your Venue requires you to make a decision of available sub-options, those decisions are made only once when you first gain the Action. Additionally, all Venues come with the “Complete a Job” action, for which the Venue owner can set RP Jobs to be completed when they first open their venue for the week.

“Opening a Venue” requires an action each week, but when activated provides unique passive perks that can help the owner or any visiting players as well as allowing them to take an Action available from their Venue. While your Venue is Open, you can take Actions available at your venue as desired, ignoring any frequency limitations they may have for Visitors. As the Venue owner, you NEVER count as a visitor to your venue, no matter how many actions you take at your Venue in a week.

When you Open a Venue for the week, you should update the tags for the Venue with the "Open" tag. You can choose to keep your Venue open the following week by applying the "Open Next Week" tag as well, which will ensure the Venue is automatically marked as "Open" the following week but also commits you to using the "Open a Venue" at some point during that week.

When opening your venue, you may post up to THREE jobs to be completed in the #jobs-board-rp channel. You decide on the tasks, eligible skills, and minimum participants for each job. (Please see the "Complete a Job" Venue Action for more details.)

Players can interact with an open venue by taking the “Visit a Venue” action which allows them to either:
- Perform an action available at the target venue.
OR
- Perform a social action that involves the owner of target venue such as to Trade or Challenge to a Contest.

Venue owners can always decide which Venue Actions are available only to themselves or to visitors at their Venue. They may also decide to impose fees or requirements on visitors at their venue as desired.

Venue Quests (Quest Board)

As a Venue owner, you are eligible to submit a special type of Quest to the Quest Board to enlist adventures to help with the needs of your Venue such as to deal with a potential threat, drum up new business opportunities, or to perhaps find a new exotic ingredient to help pull together a potion you have been working on. These are referred to as Venue Quests. As a Venue Owner, you are able to have up to TWO active Quest Board posts active at any given time of your choice of either Personal Quests or Venue Quests.

You as a player are ineligible to participate in a your own Venue Quests, though you can participate in any other posted quest on the board.
 If your quest is accepted by a GM and completed successfully by a minimum team of three players in a session of at least 2+ hours in length, you receive your choice of one of the following benefits (depending on what the quest entailed). No matter your choice, you CANNOT receive a reward for completed Venue Quests more than TWICE A WEEK.

1. Materials - You receive 50% of a TP worth of a specific type of Resources.

2. Efficiency - You receive an additional In Town action for the week. 

3. Fame - You receive 100 RP XP.

For more information on the Quest Board system, please see this section of the Player's Guide.