Server rules (Bonds of Blood)

Bannable violations
Upon breaking any of these rules you will be removed from the newsgroup and be CD-key banned from ALL Narc servers.

Bannable violations includes all exploits, ways to gain infinite gold, infinite experience, infinite spells, walking through walls, using third party software to cheat, purposely crashing the server, personal threats to a player, sexual harassment, negative comments to the DM, lying to the DM, being a witness to an exploit and not saying anything, etc.

Punishable violations
Upon breaking any of these rules you will be docked 3 or more levels. On the second offense half your levels and/or half of your gold and/or your items with be removed. On the third offense you will be banned.

These include any cheats, using the standard pickpocket option and not the new pickpocket action item, taking advantage of a bug and not reporting it to the DM, etc.

Annoying the DM
For this you can be docked 1 level.

Do not ask the DM for hints, directions, character adjustments, alignment adjustments, or for items.

Alignment rules
All players are expected to act appropriate to their alignment.

Alignment adjustments
Alignments are not adjusted in this world unless for RP reasons, due to some multi-class exploits, instead an experience penalty system is used.

Common law
The common law is a general moral code that all good aligned players are obligated to.

Thou must be compassionate to the weak.

Thou shall not lie.

Thou shall not steal.

Thou shall not commit acts of lust.

Thou shall not hurt or murder the weak and the innocent.

PvP rules
PvP is also known as CvC, Character vs Character.

PvP eligibility
It is fine to kill another player when the target is eligible for PvP.

A player becomes eligible for PvP if a player activates the intimidate action, bluff action, counterspell, pickpocket, or scry device on another player target then the activator will become eligible for PvP by any level player.

If a player enters a faction’s headquarters (behind their gate), then the player will be eligible for PvP by any level player.

If a player kills any other player they will be eligible for PvP by any level player.

If a player declares war on any faction the player becomes eligible for PvP by any level player.

If a player is in a designated PvP zone for faction wars then they will be eligible for PvP by any level player.

If the victim of PvP is no less then half the level of the killer then the target is eligible for PvP. For example, if the target is level 2 and the killer is level 4 PvP is fine. If the target is level 20 and the killer is level 40 then PvP is fine. If the target is level 1 and the killer is level 4 then the target is not available for PvP.

Once a player becomes eligible for PvP, they remain eligible for PvP until the server reboots.

Protection from PvP
If a player is killed and is not eligible for PvP then the killer will suffer a penalty equal to the death penalty. The victim will suffer no death penalty.

How to detect if the target is eligible for PvP

Use the PvP Device to detect if a player is eligible for PvP. If a flag is shown above the targets head then they are fair game.

How to make a hostile ineligible low level player eligible for PvP

Activate the PvP Device on the low level player while he is current attacking you and he will become eligible for PvP.

Faction rules
Many factions exist in the Land of Termes. There is an evil faction, a neutral-good faction, a human faction, a halfling faction, a half-orc faction, an elf faction, a half-elf faction, a dwarf faction, a gnome faction, and a monster faction.

Faction membership
To join a faction a player must find a faction that meets his race or alignment requirements and speak to its members about becoming a recruit (If there are no members, then he can unofficially claim the faction as his own).

To become an official faction member a player must do a special quest that can only be done at a level 10+ area. This quest will require defeating a powerful creature and taking its remains back to the faction's altar to be used in a ceremony to anoint the player. During the ceremony, or anointment, there must be 4 witnesses with the faction’s race or alignment requirement present. If the ceremony is successfully completed the player will gain a faction rune. Until a player has completed the faction quest, he is considered an unofficial member.

A player is only allowed to belong to one race-based faction and one alignment-based faction at a time.

Faction leadership
To become a faction leader a player must be anointed at the faction's altar a second time. During this ceremony, seven witnesses of that faction must be present. Each witness must possess that particular faction's rune. The leader must also possess the faction's rune and have completed the faction quest a second time and have the special quest item. The leader will gain a rune that can remove faction runes from players of his faction and the leader rune has exclusive access to some locked areas.

To remove a leader the challenger/group must defeat/assassinate the leader (if leader logs out its considered a death) and there must be a majority vote to remove the leader from his position within 24 hours of the leaders death (in-game with screenshot). There must be a minimum of 7 votes to remove the leader.

If the above is true the leader must remove his rune and the he is not allowed to get a leader rune for 1 week; if either rule is broken all his characters will be deleted.

Faction ranks
To keep a faction active a faction leader should appoint a player to be his second in command, a spiritual leader, a military leader, etc.

Faction duels
Factions may duel at the Locus Pugnae to resolve disputes or to prove their strength.

The Locus Pugnae is designed for a capture-the-flag match. The twist is that if a team member dies, he gets placed in the other faction's jail, which can only be opened with a lever outside of the jail.

Factions should wager gold and items on the match to make it more meaningful and interesting.

Faction benefits
Official faction members can teleport to their faction. They also get access to free bed rolls, treasure, and other special items.

Other server rules
You are not allowed to have a blank name, a name with swear words, or anything inappropriate in your name or character description.

If you find a bug, exploit, cheat, unbalance, or find that someone is cheating, take a screenshot and send your findings to narcissuslair@yahoo.com.

At times you may question why a new or old feature works in a certain way. Or you may question why there are so many restrictions. Trust the creator on this. The creator has been building modules for a few years now and knows most of the exploits, cheats and bugs in Neverwinter.

These rules are in place to ensure fair play.This world is high magic, encourages roleplay, high action, puzzles, balance, and most importantly is fun.