`other rules [PLEASE READ]

[chaoTEZY]

This is the thread for any other rules, including those about lands, breeding, stallions and mares. If you read through these and still have an unanswered question, please either ask a staff member or post in the help board. Thank you.

[chaoTEZY]

These are the rules for stallions and mares. They should be read by new members, and obeyed at all times. These are subject to changes without warning, so please regularly check for updates. Thank you.

STALLIONS

• Stallions can claim any land, as long as it's not already inhabited. If there is already a female leader, you must either gain her approval to become the male lead or challenge her for the position. Two horses can be leaders together without being mates.
  
  
• You may only have ONE mate. However, you can breed with as many mares as you wish (within reason – please do not breed twenty mares in a week.) Please remember that not all breedings will result in a foal, and it's up to a staff member to decide.
  
  
• You can only have one land per stallion, and three lands MAX per player. This means if you have two lead stallions and a lead mare, you cannot have another lead. However, if you only have the two lead stallions, you can. The more lands you control the more active I expect you to be, and you must keep up with updating all of the ones you rule.
  
  
• Stallions may force-breed mares in 'the copses', however if there is a note saying they do not wish forcebreeders to take part in the thread you must respect that.

MARES

• Mares can claim any land, as long as it's not already inhabited. If there is already a male leader, you must either gain his approval to become the female lead or challenge him for the position. Two horses can be leaders together without being mates.
  
  
• You may only have ONE mate. However, you can be force-bred or bred with permission by any stallion, but you must wait a three days between breeding (unless you fall pregnant, in which case you must give birth after five days have passed and spend at least three days recovering.) This is to prevent mares having too many foals. Not all breedings with result in a pregnancy – this is determined by a staff member,
  
  
• You can only have one land per mare, and three lands MAX per player. This means if you have two lead stallions and a lead mare, you cannot have another lead. However, if you only have the two lead stallions, you can. The more lands you control the more active I expect you to be, and you must keep up with updating all of the ones you rule.
  
  
• If you are in the claiming land, you CAN be force-claimed. However, you will be given a chance to escape, if you wish. This is by going to random.net, rolling a dice and seeing the result. If you get an odd number, your horse is captured. If you get an even number, they escape. Any rolls without screenshots will be considered invalid. If you wish, a staff-member should be able to do it for you.
  
  
• Any mares who wander into 'the copses' alone are fair game to be forced. Please put a note in your post if you wish them not to.

Other rules will be placed in other posts below. Please read those too.

[chaoTEZY]

These are the rules for breeding. They should be read by new members, and obeyed at all times. These are subject to changes without warning, so please regularly check for updates. Thank you.

BREEDING

• The minimum age for a mare to be bred is two years old (I know it's possible for a mare to breed below that age, but it's extremely unlikely.) Stallions may also breed at two years old minimum, to make it fair.
  
  
• The only place where breeding should take part is either in 'the corpses', or, alternatively, if the stallion is the lead in a land, they may breed any mares with permission in their land. Force-breeding may only take part in 'the copses', to keep it nice and simple.
  
  
• Some leaders will require anybody in their herd acquire a blessing or permission from them before breeding. If this is not stated in the herd thread or rules, it's automatically not a requirement.
  
  
• Graphic breeding is allowed, to a certain extent. Please keep it tasteful/realistic and make sure it doesn't violate Proboard's TOS. All graphic breeding threads must have some kind of warning in the title.
  
  
• If you wish, you can just post the parent's stats, or state they have bred. It's completely up to the roleplayers at hand. Only do what you're comfortable with.
  
  
• Not all breedings will result in foals. A staff member will roll a die or draw a random number to decide whether or not the mare gets pregnant. 1, 4 or 5 means not pregnant, any other number means pregnant. The staff member should be able to produce a screenshot if requested – if they can't, it is invalid and must be done again.
  
  
• Pregnancy must last at least five real life days, although whether you post during these days is completely up to you (of course I'd rather you did.) After giving birth the mare must rest for at least three days before getting pregnant again.
  
  
• Yes, when a foal is born you may rapidly age it but ONLY to one year, max. This is because if the foal is suddenly three and the parents are still three, that makes no sense.

Other rules will be placed in other posts below. Please read those too.

[chaoTEZY]

These are the rules for herds and land ownership. They should be read by new members, and obeyed at all times. These are subject to changes without warning, so please regularly check for updates. Thank you.

LAND/HERDS

• Anybody can claim a land which has no leader. However, you must either challenge for the land if it's already claimed, or be accepted as the leader by the current one. Lands can be handed down to anybody from the leader, but it's usually to their offspring.
  
  
• You MUST keep the information, rules and rankings of your herds updated regularly. This is key information for the other members.
  
  
• You may form alliances with anybody as long as both of the leaders agree.
  
  
• Only the leaders of a herd can claim horses for their land. However, all herd members may invite horses to join. The leader can object to this and refuse to allow the horse to join. It all boils down to their decision.
  
  
• The leaders of the lands are the rulemakers. As long as something is not too absurd or breaks one of the sites rules they may enforce it, but in their land only.
  
  
• Lands/herds must be kept active. The leaders must be on at least once a week and they must post and be a part of any activity check. Any leader which doesn't log in for a week and post will be demoted and have the land taken away for others to claim, unless they have posted an absence post.
  
  
• Herds should have a max of twenty members at any given time. This is to stop them from growing too big and should allow all herds to have members. If all herds are full, this limit will be raised.

Other rules will be placed in other posts below. Please read those too.

[chaoTEZY]

These are the rules for fights and challenges. They should be read by new members, and obeyed at all times. These are subject to changes without warning, so please regularly check for updates. Thank you.

FIGHTS/CHALLENGES

• Mares may challenge stallions, but only for their freedom, a position, fun or land. They cannot fight them for other mares or horses. Stallions may challenge mares for positions, fun, land, and the mare herself.
  
  
• Stallions may fight each other for land, positions, mares, herd members or fun/reputation. Mares may fight each other for land, positions, herd members or fun/reputation.
  
  
• All challenges must be acknowledged by the challenged in one week – otherwise, the challenged are automatically the losers. This is to prevent huge waiting times. If the challenged has posted that they will be absent, this rule takes effect only once they've come back.
  
  
• To challenge somebody you must have at least five posts on this site that are not spam. Please do not post a challenge before you meet this criteria.
  
  
• Fights must take part in the Warlands. No exceptions – however, you can challenge somebody to fight anywhere (IC).
  
  
• If you challenge someone, you must PM them stating you have done so. No trying to win by default by not letting them know – it's unfair.
  
  
• The challenger gets to set the rules of the fight (minimum word count, number of posts, etc) as long as they don't break the site rules.
  
  
• Fights will be decided using a total out of 5 for four categories (originality, grammar/spelling, length vs. quality, and realism). The max you can receive is, of course, twenty. If it's a tie, a dice will be rolled or a coin flipped.
  
  
• You can ask for a judge for the fight (to make sure no rules are broken) but they must either be a staff member or have over 50 posts. They can not decide the outcome of the fight – that's one of the staff members jobs.
  
  
• Absolutely NO power-playing or god-moding. Power-playing is deciding how the other RPer's character reacts – ie, Bob lunged forward and bit the stallion. He stumbled and fell to the ground. God-moding is making your character too good – ie, dodging every attack, not getting hurt at all, knowing exactly what's coming. These are both grounds for disqualification.

Other rules will be placed in other posts below. Please read those too.