Moderator Duties

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Mod Privileges and Duties

Mods can:

  • Collaborate on the game's plot, providing insights and ideas that will improve the game experience for everyone
  • Decide the outcomes of actions, such as melee combat, spells, and other plot-related actions, if need be
  • Create, name, describe and play NPCs at will
  • Set the stage for roleplay, deciding what is happening during the course of a roleplay, describing the scene and controlling outside elements such as weather
  • Improvise on world lore, up to and including creating new legends, locations, minor historic events, famous names, cultural minutiae, etc
  • Cause the death of characters and minor NPCs if necessary

Mods are asked to:

  • Help players when they ask for assistance, further information or advice
  • Mediate between players when there is serious conflict
  • Be watchdogs against IC and OOC bad behavior like god-modding, assuming outcomes, harassment, rudeness, etc
  • Keep the wiki up-to-date, including the NPC Master List, with pertinent information
  • Edit or decanonize posts when necessary
  • Send warnings to players when they have stepped over the line
  • Read new character sheets and put them through the editing process
  • Help out your fellow mods when they need you
  • Try to help everyone have a good time
  • Avoid drama

Playing as a PC

As a general rule, when you're playing one of your PCs (one you created while you were not a moderator), you are seen as a player and not a mod. You can't self-moderate while playing a PC. The difference between a PC and a Mod PC (an NPC that you use more often than others) is that Player Characters are on the same level as everybody else in the game, and they exist for your enjoyment only.

The benefit of this is that when you're playing your PC, moderators will treat you like a player. They will set the scene for you just like they would for any other player, and will moderate for you. You won't have any of the responsibilities you would have if you were playing a Mod PC. You're also given player precedent over any Mod PCs you're interacting with; if there's a situation where one character has to die, it's going to be the Mod PC over your PC.

When you see a moderator playing a PC, you should remember to moderate for them like any other player.