General Rules & Conduct

The Chords of Chaos is designed to be a shared world campaign, where the actions of the players will affect the world, other groups, and the future of the campaign. It is also designed to be a very long-term game, to be played by people both on and off-stream (and sometimes both). Therefore, everyone needs to be on the same page about certain things this campaign requires in order to run smoothly. If you cannot agree to any of the following, you should not play in The Chords of Chaos. If you play in the campaign, whether on stream or off-stream, with Gambet, or another DM, it is understood that you are agreeing to everything laid out on this page.

• No Metagaming: The Chords of Chaos has the potential for PvP, and even outside of PvP you might learn information from other streams or on Discord from other people's games that might give you information your character has not learned in game. Due to the nature of the campaign, with both secrets, political factions, Player Characters who might be at war or otherwise at odds with each other, you are not allowed to use any information acquired Out of Character, In Character.
• No Cheating: Obviously, do not cheat your stats, loot, dice rolls, alter your character sheet, or behave in any other kind of dishonest behavior.
• Obey Twitch/YouTube TOS: Because The Chords of Chaos will be hosted both on Twitch and YouTube, and probably other platforms as well, it is important the campaign maintain a level of conduct safe for broadcast on these platforms. Even if your specific campaign has no plans to be broadcast, because player actions will ripple out and affect other player groups, some of which might be broadcast, it is important that we follow the conduct rules for these platforms. Largely these Terms of Service are pretty common sense and straightforward, but as a community we should avoid the following subject matter: Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, sexual harassment, sexual assault, graphic torture, graphic depictions of sexual acts, slavery, explicit adult content, and anything else that could be considered extra cringy, intolerable behavior.
• No Slavery: At the DM's discretion, they might have NPC slavers in the campaign. However, Player Characters are not allowed to become slavers, sell people into slavery, or purchase slaves with the intent of using them.
• Respect Each Other OOC: This means both DMs and your fellow players. No harassing or bullying each other. No threatening each other. Leave what happens between your characters In Character. Don't take it personally OOC.
• This is Not a Dating Service: Listen, far be it for me to tell two consenting adults what to do, but do not make the mistake of assuming the women joining this game (or the men, for that matter) are doing so hoping to engage in romantic RP. Especially do not make the mistake of hoping people OOC are looking to date. Do not harass (sexually or otherwise), stalk, spread OOC rumors about, or otherwise act like a cringy asshole towards people. "Playing an evil character" or otherwise is not an excuse to sidestep this rule!
• Only One Character: Unless given special permission, you are only allowed to play one character at a time. There may be special exceptions to this, but they are rare.
• Don't Disrupt Your Game: If you think your DM got something wrong, you're welcome to point it out, but once the DM makes a clear ruling, do not hold up the game by continue to argue with him.
• No Collaborating in a Metagamey Way: This goes along with no metagaming, but it's important that characters communicate In Character. Reaching out privately on Discord or something to make a deal to join forces to fight someone else when your characters have no in-game way of communicating, or even trying to tell an allied player OOC what to do during combat, robs the game of its integrity. If you want to collaborate in character, talk out loud, agree to meet in person, send envoys, messages, or something else, but do it in character. Obviously there's a fine line with some of this stuff, and we're not trying to be crazy control freaks about it all, but it's just important that we maintain the integrity of incomplete information in this game as much as possible.
• Character Ownership: Due to the long-term, legacy-focused nature of the campaign, The Chords of Chaos needs full rights/access/ownership of your character, even if you quit, are removed, or otherwise leave the campaign as a player or DM. You are welcome to keep rights/access/ownership to a version of your character that has zero link or affiliation with The Chords of Chaos, in any other campaign or project you'd like. You just can't restrict or revoke rights/access/ownership to the version of the character that exists within The Chords of Chaos, which includes any recorded sessions you were a part of. So if we need to use your character in the future, as an NPC, let another PC play them, use them in marketing materials, merchandise, play some vocal audio of yours from a past session in a future session, write up some lore that includes the character, write The Chords of Chaos fiction that includes the character in any capacity, or whatever else we might want to use it for, we forever maintain the rights to do so without needing permission from you. By joining the campaign, you agree to give us the rights to all of this freely, and permanently, without stipulations.
• Involvement: You are welcome to quit the campaign as a player at any time, for any reason, but you also recognize you may be removed from the campaign as a player at any time, for any reason.
• Give Notice if you can't make a Session: Shit happens, but your DM is probably working hard coming up with sessions for you to play in. If you can't make it, respect the effort being put in and give your DM as much notice as possible. Failing to show up without notice is a perfectly valid reason for your DM to give you the boot, if they choose.