Membership Eligibility

• You must be 18+ to register and roleplay on this site.
• By registering, you confirm your age and responsibility for your content.
• Underage members will be immediately removed.
• Knowingly interacting with an underage member without reporting will result in a ban.

Content Responsibility

• You are fully responsible for all content you upload, hotlink, or post.
• Ensure you have the rights or licenses to the content you share.
• We are not liable for content loss from crashes or member behavior.
• Backup your own work regularly.
• Members are responsible for curating their own experience by managing settings, follows, heeding tags/content warnings, using feed settings, and blocking if necessary.

Member Disputes & Conduct

• People aren't here to be your personal audience or on-demand entertainment. Be nice, be collaborative.
• No grandstanding or god complexes. We're all just nerds here.
• This is a no bullying site. Use block features and resolve issues privately.
• Call-out posts, doxxing, name or kink-shaming, and rumor-spreading are strictly prohibited.
• Hate speech will not be tolerated.
• Abuse of staff will not be tolerated.
• If a member has blocked you, any attempt to contact them through alternate accounts, Discord, tags, posts, messages, subs, follows, reacts, or public commentary will result in an immediate ban. We are not playing.

Cyberbullying and Law Enforcement

• In serious cases, RPL will cooperate with law enforcement and provide IP/account info.
• We may supply blocklists or remove offenders to protect members.
• Legal threats will result in removal from the site.

Member Inactivity

• 90+ days of inactivity = account deletion for non-donors
• Test/blank/placeholder names = removed at discretion
• Malicious intent = immediate removal

Profile Deletion

• Members may delete their character profiles or author account at any time on the Settings page
• The account will be marked for deletion and put into the deletion queue
• All deletion requests will be processed within 30 days of the request

Forbidden Content

• Explicit or pornographic images may not be used as profile pictures or cover photos, and may not be hotlinked anywhere on the site.
• Hate speech, doxxing, threats, hacking, or privacy violations
• Pedophilia, bestiality, underage sexual content (even with child characters)
• Porn involving minors, real violence, snuff, or illegal media
• Plagiarized or pirated content
• Spam or excessive disruptive content
• We are a roleplay writing site, not Twitter or Instagram. The site's intended use is for writing collaborative fiction with other members, not excessive OOC or image posting.
• We are not a fanfic site. If you wish to post fanfiction, please do so on a dedicated platform like WattPad, FanFiction.net, or Archive of Our Own.

Image Guidelines

• Images must not contain forbidden content as outlined above.
• Profile and header images must be safe-for-work and appropriate for public viewing. Explicit content, including nudity or sexual material, is not permitted in these placements.
• Do not hotlink explicit or pornographic images into posts, comments, stories, DMs, or elsewhere on the site.
• Images must not violate any laws.
• Posted images must contain some type of text content. Adding dots or emojis to evade filters shall be considered spam.
• Images must not be excessively large, fill the feed, or cause performance issues.
• We reserve the right to remove any image at our discretion.
• Failure to follow image guidelines may result in immediate removal or a ban.

Reporting

• You may report anyone breaking the site Rules or Terms of Service at any time.
• Do not report content out of personal dislike, spite, or unrelated drama.
• Members who are aware of serious rule violations or site misuse and choose not to report it may be considered complicit and risk warnings, infractions, or bans at the discretion of the admin team.

Banning Policy

• Infractions/warnings are issued at the discretion of the admin team and are not a guaranteed right.
• Serious violations (plagiarism, threats, evasion, content violations, hate speech) = immediate ban.
• VPNs, proxies, and Tor traffic are not allowed.
• We only ban when we have to, so they're usually permanent.

Use Limitations

• Free accounts may have ONE author account per household.
• Free accounts may have NO MORE THAN 25 characters total.
• Please consider supporting the site if you would like unlimited access to all premium site features, including unlimited characters and multiple author accounts.

By using this site, you agree to these terms. Violations may result in account or IP removal. Terms may change at any time without notice. The current version is always linked in the site footer.