Rules for Character Creation

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MENFOLK (HUMANS)

Menfolk include Humans, Beorning, Breeman, Daleman, Dorwinions, Gondorians and Rohirrim.

Descriptions:

- no grey eyes (or flecks), this includes steel, iron, stone, or whatever other shade of grey you can come up with.
- no eye color outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, your eyes are brown. If you're Rohirrim, your eyes are blue, etc.
- no hair color outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, your hair is brown unless otherwise okayed via RPP roles. If you're Rohirrim, your hair is blonde or blond depending on your gender, etc.
- no skin tones outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, you're fair-skinned. If you're Dorwinion, you're olive-skinned to very dark, etc.
- no height beyond or below the allowed range of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, you're not going to be taller than a Dorwinion. If you're Rohirrim, you're not going to be as short as a Hobbit.
- no tattoos unless you're Dorwinion.
- no piercings unless you're Dorwinion.
- no hair-dye
- no make-up
- no scents, do not put in your dmote either. There are soaps and perfumes in game to give your character a scent.
- no hair-dos, leave that for dmote
- no equipment, gear, accessories or clothing, etc.
- no kohl unless you're Dorwinion.
- no mutations/limitations/diseases unless otherwise okayed via a Special Application, this includes dwarfism, two-toned eye color, blindness, missing limbs, etc.
- no stating measurements of height or weight whether numbered or named.
- no stating actual age or area of age such as teens, twenties, thirties, etc.
- no graphic descriptors - we are a family friendly game.
- no subjectivity, do not describe your character in any capacity that is forcing an opinion on the reader, whether good or bad. Let the reader decide how they view your character. Subjectivity includes, but is not limited to, such descriptors as beautiful, ugly, comely, handsome, striking, captivating, cute, winsome, fierce, gag-worthy, smelly, perfumed, elegant, graceful, clumsy, statuesque, pretty, magnanimous, breath-taking, etc.
- no emotion, do not describe your character as expressing an emotion. No one is frowning or smiling all the time.
- no thoughts, do not describe thoughts or intentions in your description.
- no professions, skills, jobs, or auras in your description.

Allowable sdesc/ldesc nouns:

Helpful Tips for Descriptions:
- Hair is expensive to maintain. Hair below the shoulders is not common due to the cost of washing it and keeping it pest-free.
- It is perfectly okay to not be the prettiest tulip in the field.
- It is perfectly okay to not be a muscle-bound, broad-shouldered beefcake.

Backgrounds:

- no use of a wealthy background unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of being of noble birth or raising unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of having education in your background, being able to read or write unless your character actually has the skill.
- no use of claiming your character has been born from anywhere outside of your character's race. If your character is codedly Human, they were born in Rhovanion and are Rhovanion. If your character is Beorning, they were born in Rhovanion, etc.
- no use of claiming your character has been around or has known any race beyond Rhovanion -unless- your character is from outside of Rhovanion and then they are permitted to have been around and known those of that particular country such as a Gondorian would know Gondorians, a Rohirrim would know Rohirrim, etc. The exception to this is orcs. Your character could have a background in having run-ins with orcs.
- no use of being born the bastard of a noble unless otherwise permitted via a RPP role.
- no use of being a relative of an already in game character unless otherwise permitted by Staff via Special Application.
- no use of being a copy of another character in any other format, be it another MUD, a game, a book, a TV show, a movie, etc. There is no exception to this.
- no use of being a virgin birth
- no use of magic
- no use of knowing information from your previous character(s).
- no use of skills your character does not actually have codedly.
- no use of entering the game married, pregnant or with living children. The exception to this is if your character's wife/husband or children are dead. If you wish your character to get married and have children please see our documentation on that and pursue such in game through IC means.
- no use of Fellowships - they do not exist here.
- no use of Hillmen - they do not exist here.
- no use of Sindarin-based names unless you're Dunadan, an Elf or an upper-caste Dorwinion
- no use of Quenya-based names unless you're an Elf
- no use of animal-based names for the safety of your character, seriously.
- no use of inappropriate names, seriously.
- no use of names of established characters be them Tolkein canon or well-known characters of other mythos, novels, games of any kind, movies, TV shows, anime, comics, etc. Be as original as you can while also not making it a headache for other players to remember and type out.
- no use of special characters in names such as ', -, etc.
- no use of surnames unless otherwise permitted in your RPP race or RPP role, when in doubt check your documentation.
- no having been a slave.

Helpful Tips for Backrgounds:
- Being a bastard is not 'cool' in this setting, nor something anyone would brag about. It will close many doors to your character and may cause uncomfortable conflict for your character.

DUNADAN

Descriptions:

- no eye color outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, your eyes are brown. If you're Rohirrim, your eyes are blue, etc.
- no hair color outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, your hair is brown unless otherwise okayed via RPP roles. If you're Rohirrim, your hair is blonde or blond depending on your gender, etc.
- no skin tones outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, you're fair-skinned. If you're Dorwinion, you're olive-skinned to very dark, etc.
- no height beyond or below the allowed range of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, you're not going to be taller than a Dorwinion. If you're Rohirrim, you're not going to be as short as a Hobbit.
- no tattoos unless you're Dorwinion.
- no piercings unless you're Dorwinion.
- no hair-dye
- no make-up
- no scents, do not put in your dmote either. There are soaps and perfumes in game to give your character a scent.
- no hair-dos, leave that for dmote
- no equipment, gear, accessories or clothing, etc.
- no kohl unless you're Dorwinion.
- no mutations/limitations/diseases unless otherwise okayed via a Special Application, this includes dwarfism, two-toned eye color, blindness, missing limbs, etc.
- no stating measurements of height or weight whether numbered or named.
- no stating actual age or area of age such as teens, twenties, thirties, etc.
- no graphic descriptors - we are a family friendly game.
- no subjectivity, do not describe your character in any capacity that is forcing an opinion on the reader, whether good or bad. Let the reader decide how they view your character. Subjectivity includes, but is not limited to, such descriptors as beautiful, ugly, comely, handsome, striking, captivating, cute, winsome, fierce, gag-worthy, smelly, perfumed, elegant, graceful, clumsy, statuesque, pretty, magnanimous, breath-taking, etc.
- no emotion, do not describe your character as expressing an emotion. No one is frowning or smiling all the time.
- no thoughts, do not describe thoughts or intentions in your description.
- no professions, skills, jobs, or auras in your description.

Allowable sdesc/ldesc nouns:

Helpful Tips for Descriptions:
- Hair is expensive to maintain. Hair below the shoulders is not common due to the cost of washing it and keeping it pest-free.
- It is perfectly okay to not be the prettiest tulip in the field.
- It is perfectly okay to not be a muscle-bound, broad-shouldered beefcake.

Backgrounds:

- no use of a wealthy background unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of being of noble birth or raising unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of having education in your background, being able to read or write unless your character actually has the skill.
- no use of claiming your character has been born from anywhere outside of your character's race. If your character is codedly Human, they were born in Rhovanion and are Rhovanion. If your character is Beorning, they were born in Rhovanion, etc.
- no use of claiming your character has been around or has known any race beyond Gondor. The exception to this is orcs. Your character could have a background in having run-ins with orcs.
- no use of being born the bastard of a noble unless otherwise permitted via a RPP role.
- no use of being a relative of an already in game character unless otherwise permitted by Staff via Special Application.
- no use of being a copy of another character in any other format, be it another MUD, a game, a book, a TV show, a movie, etc. There is no exception to this.
- no use of being a virgin birth
- no use of magic
- no use of knowing information from your previous character(s).
- no use of skills your character does not actually have codedly.
- no use of entering the game married, pregnant or with living children. The exception to this is if your character's wife/husband or children are dead. If you wish your character to get married and have children please see our documentation on that and pursue such in game through IC means.
- no use of Fellowships - they do not exist here.
- no use of having been from Minas Tirith
- no use of Hillmen - they do not exist here.
- no use of Quenya-based names unless you're an Elf
- no use of animal-based names for the safety of your character, seriously.
- no use of inappropriate names, seriously.
- no use of names of established characters be them Tolkein canon or well-known characters of other mythos, novels, games of any kind, movies, TV shows, anime, comics, etc. Be as original as you can while also not making it a headache for other players to remember and type out.
- no use of special characters in names such as ', -, etc.
- no having been a slave.

Helpful Tips for Backrgounds:
- Being a bastard is not 'cool' in this setting, nor something anyone would brag about. It will close many doors to your character and may cause uncomfortable conflict for your character.
- Your character is not a Ranger from the North, nor are they Aragorn. Any playable Dunadan will be from Dol Amroth or Pelegrir and are subject to the rules and limitations o the Dunadan documentation.

DWARROWS

Descriptions:

- no grey eyes (or flecks), this includes steel, iron, stone, or whatever other shade of grey you can come up with.
- no female dwarves
- no eye color outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, your eyes are brown. If you're Rohirrim, your eyes are blue, etc.
- no hair color outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, your hair is brown unless otherwise okayed via RPP roles. If you're Rohirrim, your hair is blonde or blond depending on your gender, etc.
- no skin tones outside of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, you're fair-skinned. If you're Dorwinion, you're olive-skinned to very dark, etc.
- no height beyond or below the allowed range of your race's documentation. If you're codedly Human, you're not going to be taller than a Dorwinion. If you're Rohirrim, you're not going to be as short as a Hobbit.
- no tattoos unless you're Dorwinion.
- no piercings unless you're Dorwinion.
- no hair-dye
- no make-up
- no scents, do not put in your dmote either. There are soaps and perfumes in game to give your character a scent.
- no hair-dos, leave that for dmote
- no equipment, gear, accessories or clothing, etc.
- no kohl unless you're Dorwinion.
- no mutations/limitations/diseases unless otherwise okayed via a Special Application, this includes dwarfism, two-toned eye color, blindness, missing limbs, etc.
- no stating measurements of height or weight whether numbered or named.
- no stating actual age or area of age such as teens, twenties, thirties, etc.
- no graphic descriptors - we are a family friendly game.
- no subjectivity, do not describe your character in any capacity that is forcing an opinion on the reader, whether good or bad. Let the reader decide how they view your character. Subjectivity includes, but is not limited to, such descriptors as beautiful, ugly, comely, handsome, striking, captivating, cute, winsome, fierce, gag-worthy, smelly, perfumed, elegant, graceful, clumsy, statuesque, pretty, magnanimous, breath-taking, etc.
- no emotion, do not describe your character as expressing an emotion. No one is frowning or smiling all the time.
- no thoughts, do not describe thoughts or intentions in your description.
- no professions, skills, jobs, or auras in your description.

Allowable sdesc/ldesc nouns:

Helpful Tips for Descriptions:
- Hair, even facial hair, is expensive to maintain. Hair below the shoulders is not common due to the cost of washing it and keeping it pest-free.
- It is perfectly okay to not be the prettiest tulip in the field.
- It is perfectly okay to not be a muscle-bound, broad-shouldered beefcake.

Backgrounds:

- no use of a wealthy background unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of being of noble birth or raising unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of having education in your background, being able to read or write unless your character actually has the skill.
- no use of claiming your character has been born from anywhere outside of your character's race.
- no use of claiming your character has been around or has known any race beyond your character's culture. The exception to this is orcs. Your character could have a background in having run-ins with orcs.
- no use of being born the bastard of a noble unless otherwise permitted via a RPP role.
- no use of being a relative of an already in game character unless otherwise permitted by Staff via Special Application.
- no use of being a copy of another character in any other format, be it another MUD, a game, a book, a TV show, a movie, etc. There is no exception to this.
- no use of being a virgin birth
- no use of magic
- no use of knowing information from your previous character(s).
- no use of skills your character does not actually have codedly.
- no use of entering the game married, pregnant or with living children. The exception to this is if your character's wife/husband or children are dead. If you wish your character to get married and have children please see our documentation on that and pursue such in game through IC means.
- no use of Fellowships - they do not exist here.
- no use of Hillmen - they do not exist here.
- no use of Sindarin-based names unless you're Dunadan, an Elf or an upper-caste Dorwinion
- no use of Quenya-based names unless you're an Elf
- no use of animal-based names for the safety of your character, seriously.
- no use of inappropriate names, seriously.
- no use of names of established characters be them Tolkein canon or well-known characters of other mythos, novels, games of any kind, movies, TV shows, anime, comics, etc. Be as original as you can while also not making it a headache for other players to remember and type out.
- no use of special characters in names such as ', -, etc.
- no use of surnames unless otherwise permitted in your RPP race or RPP role, when in doubt check your documentation.
- no having been a slave.

Helpful Tips for Backrgounds:
- Being a bastard is not 'cool' in this setting, nor something anyone would brag about. It will close many doors to your character and may cause uncomfortable conflict for your character.
- Do not use your dwarf's true-name as the coded name, instead add the true-name in your background.

ORCS:

Descriptions:

- no use of the noun goblin, goblins are not presently playable.
- no use of nouns associated with humans or humanoid races other than orc.
- no half-breeds of any cross-breeding.
- no otherworldly eye color, no grey-colored eyes of any greyish shade, no glowing eyes, no missing pupils, etc.
- no otherworldly hair color, no glowing hair, no color-changing hair, etc.
- no otherworldly skin-tone aside with the exception of greenish, bluish and yellow amidst the other shadows possible in terms of real-world.
- no tattoos
- no hair-dye
- no make-up or kohl
- no scents, do not put in your dmote either. There are soaps and perfumes in game to give your character a scent.
- no hair-dos, leave that for dmote
- no equipment, gear, accessories or clothing, etc.
- no mutations/limitations/diseases unless otherwise okayed via a Special Application, this includes dwarfism, two-toned eye color, blindness, missing limbs, etc.
- no stating measurements of height or weight whether numbered or named.
- no stating actual age or area of age such as teens, twenties, thirties, etc.
- no graphic descriptors - we are a family friendly game.
- no subjectivity, do not describe your character in any capacity that is forcing an opinion on the reader, whether good or bad. Let the reader decide how they view your character. Subjectivity includes, but is not limited to, such descriptors as beautiful, ugly, comely, handsome, striking, captivating, cute, winsome, fierce, gag-worthy, smelly, perfumed, elegant, graceful, clumsy, statuesque, pretty, magnanimous, breath-taking, etc.
- no emotion, do not describe your character as expressing an emotion. No one is frowning or smiling all the time.
- no thoughts, do not describe thoughts or intentions in your description.
- no professions, skills, jobs, or auras in your description.

Backgrounds:

- no use of a wealthy background unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of being of noble birth or raising unless permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no having been born of a race or mixing of a race other than orc.
- no having been chieftain unless otherwise permitted in specific RPP Roles.
- no use of having education in your background, being able to read or write unless your character actually has the skill.
- no use of claiming your character has been born from anywhere outside of your character's race.
- no use of claiming your character has been around or has known any race besides Rhovanions.
- no use of being born the bastard of a noble unless otherwise permitted via a RPP role.
- no use of being a relative of an already in game character unless otherwise permitted by Staff via Special Application.
- no use of being a copy of another character in any other format, be it another MUD, a game, a book, a TV show, a movie, etc. There is no exception to this.
- no use of being a virgin birth
- no use of magic
- no use of knowing information from your previous character(s).
- no use of skills your character does not actually have codedly.
- no use of entering the game married, pregnant or with living children. The exception to this is if your character's wife/husband or children are dead. If you wish your character to get married and have children please see our documentation on that and pursue such in game through IC means.
- no use of Fellowships - they do not exist here.
- no use of Hillmen - they do not exist here.
- no use of Sindarin-based names unless you're Dunadan, an Elf or an upper-caste Dorwinion
- no use of Quenya-based names unless you're an Elf
- no use of animal-based names for the safety of your character, seriously.
- no use of inappropriate names, seriously.
- no use of names of established characters be them Tolkein canon or well-known characters of other mythos, novels, games of any kind, movies, TV shows, anime, comics, etc. Be as original as you can while also not making it a headache for other players to remember and type out.
- no use of special characters in names such as ', -, etc.
- no use of surnames unless otherwise permitted in your RPP race or RPP role, when in doubt check your documentation.