IMPORTANT -- Updated World Policies

[Dorganath]

Layonara is a world built for entertainment and community. Years of diligent volunteer effort on the part of the Layonara team has generated extensive and engaging environments, compelling and unique game dynamics, a vibrant and supportive community, and a universe overfull with history.

To maintain Layonara's entertainment factor and sense of community we strive to:

• ensure an equality of opportunity for players to enjoy and be entertained by the abundant resources Layonara has to offer
• foster and promote an open, supportive and engaging community
• continue to develop the stories which make Layonara the vibrant world it is while at the same time respecting and ensuring historical integrity
• ensure the consistency of the world setting (pantheon, cosmology, geography, races, classes, etc.)
• ensure the intended and reasonable functioning of game dynamics

Layonara's popularity and longevity has also meant that we've faced many issues and conflicts. To address these challenges we've developed a set of policies and procedures which embed the above objectives into world, game and community in a consistent and clear manner. The contents of Layonara Rules have been deliberated many times and some have seen multiple manifestations. With each revision, as with this most recent, we intend our policies to promote and defend our shared vision of community and entertainment while being mindful that the rules and procedures should not become cumbersome or overwrought. Layonara should be fun and inviting while at the same time consistent and just.

We urge everyone to read the updated policies in this thread. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them in our "Ask a Gamemaster" forum.

- The Layonara GM Team