Purpose

Terra Anvil exists to create welcoming, respectful, and enjoyable spaces for collaborative storytelling and tabletop role-playing games. This Code of Conduct applies to participants, Game Masters (GMs), guests, organizers, and volunteers during Terra Anvil activities, whether those activities take place in person or online.

1. Respect, Inclusion, and Non-Discrimination

Treat other participants with courtesy and respect. Discrimination, targeted hostility, or exclusion based on race, color, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or other personal characteristics is not permitted.
Disagreement is allowed; personal attacks, intimidation, threats, bullying, stalking, or sustained disruptive behavior are not.

2. Harassment and Personal Boundaries

Harassment may be verbal, physical, visual, sexual, or online. Participants must respect personal boundaries and stop conduct when another participant or the GM asks that it stop.
Terra Anvil encourages the use of agreed safety tools, including pause requests, breaks, Lines and Veils, or an X-Card. A participant does not need to justify a request to pause or move away from material that is making play uncomfortable.

3. Mature Themes and 18+ Content

Terra Anvil games may contain mature themes intended for adults, including strong language, violence, horror, disturbing situations, and other adult subject matter.
An 18+ designation is not permission for participants to sexually harass others, deliberately expose themselves, introduce explicit sexual material without group consent, or ignore another participant’s boundaries. The GM may fade to black, redirect, or end a scene at any time.

4. In-Character Conduct and Exceptions

Characters may be rude, antagonistic, morally questionable, discriminatory within the fictional setting, or otherwise behave in ways that would be unacceptable between real participants when such material is appropriate to the game and consistent with established group boundaries.
In-character behavior is never a defense for out-of-character harassment. A player who is asked to stop or redirect a scene must do so. Character-versus-character conflict should not be used to target, humiliate, or punish another player.

5. Props and Costumes

Props and costumes are welcome when they are safe and appropriate for the venue or online session.
No nudity is permitted. Real weapons, unsafe replicas, or props likely to cause injury or reasonable alarm are prohibited. Venue rules and applicable law always take precedence.

6. Audio/Video Recording and Privacy

No participant may audio record, video record, photograph, livestream, screen-record, or otherwise capture a Terra Anvil session unless the GM/organizer and all affected participants have been informed and have consented.
Consent to participate in a game is not automatically consent to be recorded or published. A participant who does not consent to recording must be respected.
Before publishing or distributing a recording, photograph, clip, screenshot, or similar material, Terra Anvil will follow the participant’s applicable likeness consent. Private information revealed during play must not be published merely because recording was authorized.

7. Capture and Use of Likeness

Terra Anvil may request permission to use a participant’s name, image, likeness, voice, performance, photograph, video, or audio for community, archival, website, social-media, promotional, or other Terra Anvil-related materials.
Participants may consent or decline using the separate Capture and Use of Likeness Consent Form. Declining does not prevent a person from participating in an otherwise eligible Terra Anvil game.
A participant may withdraw permission for future uses by notifying Terra Anvil. Withdrawal cannot necessarily retract material that was lawfully published, distributed, or incorporated into completed materials before Terra Anvil received the withdrawal request.

8. Accidental or Unintended Content During Online Play

During a live, non-recorded online game, accidental or unintended nudity, vulgar visual material, private background activity, or inappropriate audio may occasionally occur because of webcam placement, household activity, screen sharing, open microphones, or similar mistakes.
If this occurs, the participant should correct it promptly by disabling video, muting audio, ending the screen share, changing the camera view, or removing the material. The GM may immediately pause the session while the issue is corrected.
A genuine accident that is promptly corrected will ordinarily be treated as an accident rather than a conduct violation. Repeated incidents caused by disregard of reasonable precautions may be addressed by the GM or organizers.
Deliberate exposure, intentional display of explicit material, or conduct presented as an ‘accident’ to evade these rules is a violation and may warrant immediate removal depending on severity.

9. Respect the Game Master

The GM is responsible for facilitating the session, maintaining pacing and safety, and making table rulings. Participants are expected to follow the GM’s rulings during play.
Rules questions and disagreements are welcome when raised respectfully. Extended disputes should be handled after the session unless the GM chooses to address them immediately. Respecting the GM does not prevent a participant from raising a safety concern or reporting misconduct.

10. Two-Strike Conduct Rule

First Strike: The participant receives a clear warning describing the conduct that must stop or change. The GM or organizer may also remove the participant from the remainder of the current session when appropriate.
Second Strike: A second conduct violation may result in removal from the game, event, campaign, or Terra Anvil activities.
Serious misconduct does not require two warnings. Threats, violence, deliberate sexual exposure, severe harassment, dangerous behavior, or other serious violations may result in immediate removal or banning at the discretion of Terra Anvil organizers.

11. Participant Responsibility

Participation in Terra Anvil activities indicates agreement to follow this Code of Conduct and reasonable directions from the GM or organizers.
Participants should bring concerns to the GM or a Terra Anvil organizer. Organizers may take reasonable action needed to protect participants, the venue, and the integrity of the game.

Together, we forge stories with creativity, trust, and respect.