Server Rules

Treat all community members with respect both in and out of character. Harassment, discrimination, bullying, trolling, targeted hostility, or otherwise offensive behaviour is not allowed.

English is the primary language of Brandywine and must be used for normal communication in-game and within community spaces. Other languages may be used sparingly for character flavour.

A microphone is not required, although voice roleplay is strongly encouraged. Players must be able to hear those around them.

Players who primarily communicate through text must mark themselves as a text roleplayer through the Player Menu.

Commands such as /me and /do should be used to describe actions, details, or circumstances that cannot be clearly represented through normal gameplay.

Third-party voice changers may be used within reason, provided they remain clear, natural, and immersive.

Sexual, erotic, or sexually coercive roleplay is not allowed.

Self-harm and suicide roleplay are not allowed.

Torture roleplay must take place away from public areas and requires the clear consent of everyone directly involved. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.

Graphic roleplay must remain tasteful and considerate of those around you.

Remain in character while playing. Character language, clothing, behaviour, and roleplay themes should remain appropriate to the setting.

Do not interrupt active roleplay to argue about rules, threaten reports, or discuss moderation. Complete the scene where reasonably possible and raise concerns afterwards through the proper reporting process.

Players are expected to contribute to a believable and enjoyable roleplay environment.

Brandywine is not a hardcore serious-roleplay server, but roleplay must still come before gameplay optimisation, gunplay, or treating the server as a competitive sandbox.

Consistently low-effort, disruptive, or substandard roleplay will result in moderation action. Repeatedly prioritising action, profit, winning, or mechanical advantage over meaningful roleplay is not acceptable.

Do not force actions or outcomes upon other players.

Do not abuse game mechanics, unrealistic actions, character abilities, or technical loopholes to gain an advantage. Other participants must have a reasonable opportunity to react to and influence a scene.

Characters must acknowledge realistic limitations and the consequences of their decisions.

Characters must react realistically to danger, injury, and the threat of death.

Characters must also value their freedom. Repeatedly seeking arrest, imprisonment, or confrontations with law enforcement purely for action, entertainment, or easy roleplay is not allowed.

Criminal activity should have believable character motivations and should not exist solely to farm interactions with law enforcement.

Injuries must be roleplayed reasonably and should influence a character’s behaviour.

Do not abandon, avoid, or undermine active roleplay to escape its outcome or consequences.

You may not disconnect, respawn, store or transfer possessions, dismiss entities, enter protected systems, or otherwise remove yourself from an active scene to gain an advantage.

If you disconnect unintentionally, return and continue the scene as soon as reasonably possible or contact those involved.

Do not use out-of-character information to influence in-character actions.

Characters may only act upon information they have reasonably learned through roleplay. Information obtained through Discord, streams, external voice chats, another character, or any other out-of-character source cannot influence your character.

A voice alone is not enough to identify a character. Identification must have a reasonable in-character basis, such as appearance, clothing, behaviour, or previous interaction.

Your characters must remain meaningfully separate.

Characters must not directly or indirectly share money, items, property, information, influence, contacts, progression, or other advantages.

Closely connected characters are strongly discouraged and will be held to a high standard. Any connection must not be used to bypass consequences or benefit another character belonging to the same player.

You may not belong to the same gang, department, or organisation across multiple characters.

Character, business, and animal names must be believable and appropriate to the setting.

Meme names, deliberately offensive names, and direct copies of famous real or fictional characters are not permitted. Names inspired by historical or fictional people must be sufficiently distinct.

Character concepts must also be appropriate for the setting and community.

Permanent death is normally the decision of the character’s player.

Any law-enforcement execution capable of forcing permanent death must follow the server’s established legal and moderation process.

Deliberately declaring /dead, /no pulse, or otherwise clearly confirming that your character has died is an irreversible permanent-death decision once it has been acknowledged and acted upon.

A permanently deceased character cannot be revived or restored. New characters must not be created to inherit the deceased character’s knowledge, possessions, relationships, or influence.

Hostile actions must have a clear in-character basis and must be initiated through understandable roleplay.

Players must be given a reasonable opportunity to understand what is happening, respond to demands, react, or de-escalate where appropriate.

Attacking, killing, trampling, or using mounts, wagons, vehicles, or other mechanics as weapons without valid roleplay is prohibited.

All participants should have a fair opportunity to influence the scene.

Crime and conflict must create meaningful roleplay and be supported by believable character motivations.

Criminal activity must not exist solely to take possessions, maximise profit, provoke gunfights, or repeatedly generate law-enforcement responses.

Demands should be reasonable, victims must have a genuine opportunity to participate, and the same people or groups should not be repeatedly targeted without an ongoing roleplay reason.

Conflict should develop, change, and eventually reach some form of resolution. Endless retaliation or repetitive back-and-forth violence is not acceptable.

Significant criminal or hostile scenes should leave reasonable opportunities for roleplay to continue after the immediate interaction has ended.

Where a robbery, kidnapping, break-in, assault, or similar event would realistically leave signs behind, the players responsible should use the Roleplay Text Menu to leave believable scene details or clues before leaving.

Clues should be proportionate to what occurred and based on the actions actually taken during the scene. They should give other players a fair opportunity to investigate and continue the story without automatically revealing the offenders or forcing a particular outcome.

Players should not remove every possible trace solely to prevent further roleplay. False or misleading clues may only be used where they have been created through believable in-character actions and must not be used to unfairly frame an uninvolved player.

A maximum of six combatants may participate on either side of a conflict.

Critically injured players cannot be replaced or swapped out to exceed this limit. Groups, alliances, or affiliated parties may not coordinate to circumvent it.

Once removed from a conflict through critical injury, unconsciousness, or respawning, a player may not return to or rejoin that same conflict.

Critically injured or unconscious characters may not communicate information they could not reasonably provide.

Using bugs, exploits, injected resources, automation, macros, or unauthorised modifications to gain an advantage or access information unavailable through normal gameplay is prohibited.

Cosmetic modifications are only permitted where they provide no gameplay advantage and comply with published server restrictions.

Do not share, teach, conceal, or repeatedly test an exploit outside an authorised development process.

Bugs and exploits must be reported promptly through the appropriate developer ticket.

Rule concerns should be raised through the proper report process after the scene has concluded, except where immediate intervention is required for community safety.

Follow reasonable staff instructions and provide honest, complete information during a moderation review.

Knowingly submitting false reports, withholding important context, retaliating against reporters, or attempting to evade moderation action is prohibited.