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Welcome to The Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited (DDO) Community Forums! It is our intent to foster a helpful, welcoming community. In short, we require our community members to behave in a respectful manner toward each other and follow our Forums Guidelines.

The following are basic rules of conduct that users of The Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited Community Forums are required to adhere to. Failure to comply with these rules of conduct may result in the termination (“banning”) of your forums and/or game account. Because every situation is different, all moderation of the Community Forums is at the discretion of the DDO Community Team. These rules are subject to change.

1. While participating in the Forums, you must respect the rights of others to participate in the community. To this end you may not harass, defraud, threaten or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other members or Turbine staff. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Name-calling or other insults
• Posting with the intent of provoking another user or users
• Flaming another user for their spelling or grammar
• Bringing disagreements with someone into unrelated threads
• Creating a thread or post that calls out another player(s) for their actions in the game
• Abuse of the Reputation system

2. You may not use sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language. You may not deliberately misspell, or substitute punctuation or other special characters in, filtered words to circumvent the filter.

3. You may not distribute or spotlight sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially, nationally, ethnically offensive content, or other content deemed inappropriate at the discretion of the moderators. This includes posting links to sites which contain any of the above.

4. You may not impersonate any Turbine, Inc. employee, past or present. This includes the use or modification of the Turbine logo as a forums avatar.

5. You may not violate any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations.

6. You may not market, promote, advertise or solicit products or services for sale or trade within The Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach Community Forums. You may not post advertisements or links for websites that in this sort of business or are not directly related to The Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach.

7. You may not form or participate in groups whose ideology is based on or resembles anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-sexual orientation, racist, or sexist philosophies.

8. Making short posts for the sole purpose of moving your thread up the forum ("bumping") or adding to your post count is not allowed. The sole exception to this is in the marketplace forums where informative bumps (i.e., "the vorpal cupcake has been sold") are allowed.

9. You may not upload or transmit copyrighted material, without the express consent of the copyright holder.

10. You may not post the personally identifiable information of another user, including but not limited to their real name, address, phone number, email address, or links to personal websites without the express consent of that user.

11. You may not re-post Private Messages or email on the DDO forums or quote others in your signature, without the express consent of the sender or original poster.

12. Discussion of religious or political topics is prohibited on the DDO forums.

13. Do not re-post or quote any materials which violate the Forums Guidelines. This includes re-posting a thread or topic which has been previously closed by the moderators.

14. Please do not respond to posts made by trolls. Use the Report Bad Post function by clicking on the exclamation point icon at the top right of the post.

15. Users are entitled to one primary account. While secondary accounts are allowed, any account created for the purpose of trolling or otherwise violating the forums guidelines will result in the permanent ban of the secondary account and the temporary or permanent ban of the primary account, at the moderators’ discretion.

16. We do not discuss moderation decisions or disciplinary actions taken against members either with other members or on the forums, and we ask that you do not either. Any threads or posts that mention infractions, bans, or thread/post deletions or modifications, etc. are subject to removal and may result in further disciplinary action.

17. Users must not violate, or promote the violation of, Turbine’s terms of service, codes of conduct or end user license agreements.

18. Posting the same thread to multiple forums ("cross-posting") without express permission of the moderators is not allowed.

19. Posting, reposting or linking to, any information, including but not limited to spoilers, screen shots, and videos of materials covered under a Non-disclosure agreement.

20. You may not deliberately misrepresent yourself as another player or guild in your posts, linked images, or signature.

You must have an active DDO account to post to these forums. All forum accounts are tied to a DDO account. Violations of this Code of Conduct can result in action upon the game account, including suspension and banning.

If your account has been banned from the forums and you feel this ban is in error, ban appeals may be sent via the Contact Us link at the bottom of the forums. Please include your forum name in all correspondence. If you are banned from the game, please submit a help request here.

If you have feedback regarding your experience with DDO's Customer Service department, please submit your feedback here.

The DDO Community Team strives to foster the community by bringing you up to date information, and administering the forums with fair, impartial moderation.

In addition to these rules, you are expected to follow the code of conduct as outlined below:

CODE OF CONDUCT

The Code of Conduct (COC) that governs player behavior while playing Dungeons & Dragons® Online and participating on the Dungeons & Dragons Online Website.

The Code of Conduct is designed to make everyone’s game experience as enjoyable as possible. Failure to follow the Code of Conduct may result in the suspension or termination of your Dungeons & Dragons Online account without refund.

1. While participating in Dungeons & Dragons Online, you must respect the rights of others to play and enjoy the game world as intended by Turbine, Inc.

2. You may not communicate any player’s real-world information through the use of the official game Web portal, game client or any other means.

3. You may not use or distribute sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language (including, by way of example, but not limited to, ethnic slurs and religious epithets), content, character names, titles, descriptions, or in-game labels (including, by way of example, but not limited to, offensive or inappropriate guild names, pet names and inscriptions). You may not distribute or spotlight sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive content.

4. While playing the game or participating in the Dungeons & Dragons Online service, you may not exhibit or partake in generally disruptive behavior causing grief or alarm to other players or degrade the Dungeons & Dragons Online service performance or other players’ client software (for example, deliberately using game bugs or loopholes to disrupt the game).

5. You may not spam or flood with multiple posts the game chat or the official Web features.

6. You may not impersonate any Dungeons & Dragons Online Support Staff member or other Turbine, Inc. employee, past or present.

7. You may not violate any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations.

8. You may not market, promote, advertise, or solicit within the Dungeons & Dragons Online game or Web.

9. You may not modify the game client, server or any part of the official Dungeons & Dragons Online Web.

10. You may not advertise the intent to, or commit the act of, unauthorized selling, buying, transferring or sharing access to any Dungeons & Dragons Online game account.

11. You may not advertise the intent to, or commit the act of, unauthorized selling or buying of game items for real-world monetary values.

12. While participating in the Dungeons & Dragons Online service, both in-game and through the official Web, you will follow the instructions of authorized personnel at all times.

13. You may not form or participate in groups whose ideology is based upon or resembles anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-sexual orientation, racist or sexist philosophies.

14. You may not intentionally hide or falsify personal information that is deemed necessary for Dungeons & Dragons Online account creation.

15. You may not upload or transmit copyrighted material to any aspect of the Dungeons & Dragons Online service without the express consent of the copyright holder.

16. You will not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any transmissions to or from the Dungeons & Dragons Online service.

17. You will not exploit, distribute or publicly communicate any game error, miscue or bug which gives an unintended advantage within the Dungeons & Dragons Online game world. Bugs should be reported via the Ingame Bug Reporting Form.

18. You may not create, post or distribute any u til ities, emulators or other third party software tools without the express written permission of Turbine.

19. You may not harass other players or Turbine staff, including by way of example, but not limited to, threats, stalking or abuse of others.

20. You may not post Web links or URLs in the game that point to content deemed by Turbine to be inappropriate, including, without limitation, any Web links or URLs directed to other commercial products or services. You may not post Web links or URLs to any materials (including software and other information) that could harm (or is designed to harm) other players’ computers or would allow others to inappropriately access software or websites. Turbine does not allow the posting of destructive software, use of computer programs that contain destructive features, or access to any content such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or bots for the use of scrolling, showing multiple screens, and other activities that can be disruptive to online communication.


21. You may not use the Dungeons & Dragons Online game and/or services for illegal activities. Turbine is not responsible for anything you say in-game or on our chat rooms or forums, or for any consequences that arise from what you say. If you break the law, you alone will be responsible for the consequences.

Note: Turbine has final say over what constitutes a violation of this Code of Conduct. Turbine reserves the right to change the Code of Conduct at any time. Check the Dungeons & Dragons Online website (ddo.com) periodically for updates to the Code of Conduct.

Remedies to inappropriate behavior:

• A player who violates the Code of Conduct may be warned by Turbine staff, but some particularly serious violations or repeated violations can result in other sanctions, such as a lockout or permanent ban, without warning. In addition, Turbine reserves the right to delete characters or entire accounts as we see fit, without warning, for certain violations.

All chat in the Dungeons & Dragons Online site is logged and may be reviewed at any time to assist in making decisions regarding violations of the Code of Conduct. This includes, but is not limited to, private chat, fellowship chat and allegiance chat.