Rules

General

• Respect moderators, administrators, and the owner.  Be kind to all your fellow members.

• No multi-accounting.

• Members must be active.

• This website is for all ages, be appropriate.

• All forum posts must be in the default format.

• Signatures must not contain pictures, links, font size above default or be over four lines long.

• Members must have an up-to-date list of their characters on their profile page clearly indicating which clan each character belongs to.

• Members may advertise in the off-topic chat box or on their page. Contact the website owner with affiliate requests.

Roleplaying

• All prophecies, major plots, and actions which you believe will significantly affect the plot of the whole website must be approved by the website owner.  The main plot is discussed in blog entries, all members are encouraged to participate in planning.

• Members may only roleplay their characters.

• No power playing/godmodding, this includes contact with StarClan outside of approved visits to the Moonstone.

• No killing or maiming a character without the permission of the owner of the character being killed or maimed.

• Only cats may be roleplayed.  Cats cannot communicate with other animals through any means.

• Roleplaying must be done in third person past tense. 

• Members must make an effort towards correct grammar and spelling while roleplaying.

• No double posting unless the first post is over 10 minutes old.

• All forum posts must contain some roleplaying.

Characters

• Members are allowed 20 characters. Moderators, administrators, and the website owner are allowed 24 characters.

• Owned characters must be cats and belong to a clan.  Loners, rouges and kitty-pets must be “throw-away” characters; they can be played for brief periods but cannot be claimed as an official character.

• All characters must be original and belong to the owner.  Characters copied from books, TV shows, etc. are not allowed.

• A previously used warrior or medicine cat name cannot be reused until one year after the previous owner has died, left the clans, or otherwise been removed from the pages. 

• The names of characters mentioned on the History Page cannot be reused. 

• Warrior names of major characters from the books cannot be used.

• Characters must have realistic appearances.  Impossible colors are not allowed, however, impossible combinations of colors are tolerated but should be avoided.

• Characters must be posted on the Character Updates Page before they are roleplayed.  Any time a change to the Clan Pages should be made, the update must be posted on the Character Updates Page.  This includes new characters, character description redos, deaths, pregnancies, characters leaving the clans or moving clans, changed names, changed ranks, ceremonies, characters being put up for adoption, and characters being adopted.

• Members do not need to wait for a character to be approved before roleplaying them.

• Members may have one leader or deputy and medicine cat or medicine cat apprentice at a time.  If a member has both a leader or deputy and a medicine cat or medicine cat apprentice, the leader or deputy and medicine cat or medicine cat apprentice cannot belong to the same clan.

• Any member who has not broken any major rules and has been active on the website for over two weeks may have one Medicine Cat or Medicine Cat Apprentice.  Deputy and leader positions are given by the owner.

Character Adoptions and Transfers

• Characters remain up for adoption for two weeks before being deleted, after which they cannot be claimed.

• To put a character up for adoption, to adopt a character, or directly transfer a character, post in the Character Updates Page using the format provided.

• Once a character is up for adoption or listed for transfer it will no longer count towards their former owner's character limit, but the former own may no longer play the character. 

• A member may reclaim a character at any time before they are adopted by another member. After a character is claimed by its new owner, the original owner cannot reclaim them unless the new owner agrees to return the character.

• Leaders and deputies cannot be put up for adoption or transferred between members.

Discord Chat Server

• All members must have a Discord account and join the official server.

• All members must have their Warrior Cats of the Forest username included in their server nickname.

• Members must strive to post in the appropriate channels and avoid spamming.

• Members may create group chats for specific purposes, but cannot create or participate in unofficial Warrior Cats of the Forest chat servers.

Art and Video Pages

• Members may only post pictures and videos that they have drawn, colored, or significantly edited.

• If another artist's line art or photo has been used, it must be cited in the image description.

• Members may not have more than five doll-maker created images on their album at once, the doll maker must be cited in the image description.

• All uploaded videos and pictures must be directly relevant to the website.  Pictures of yourself, your pets, art unrelated to the roleplay, etc. cannot be posted on the Art Pages.

Aging System

These are approximate times for how long a character will remain in their rank before being promoted.

• Kit: 1 month

• Apprentice: 2 months

• Warrior/Medicine Cat: 8 months
  A queen carries her kits for 2 weeks before they are born

• Elder: 1 month