[FireDog]

The staff have been working long and hard with this rule revision. It is a full overhaul of the rules to fill in gaps that have popped up over time. This is generally how rules progress. Someone does something, staff need to figure a solution and new rule or policy, repeat again. In the end one ends up with more fleshed out rules.

We're now more or less done for this time, but this is where YOU come in, as a player. Since this is going to be us going through all the rules you will all have a say in this. This is important. If you have suggestions or ideas it is time to present them when this revision goes on. Decisions are final. We'll be going through the different types of rules one by one. The rules to go through are (so much work to do):

General Rules
Chat Rules
Forum Rules
Metagaming Rules
Powergaming Rules
Building Rules
IC Death Rules
Stealing Rules
Town/Guild/Clan/Etc Rules
In-Game and In-Character Policies
Activity Policies

A poll will be posted in each thread for simple replies if all you got to say is "okay". It will also work as deadline for each issue.

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SUGGESTION:

STEALING RULES:

1. Do not steal OOC
Speaks for itself, don't ever steal OOC. Violating this rule is a form of griefing, and a serious offence.

2. Never steal without OOC permission.
You need player permission to steal from a character/character's property. (See Powergaming Rules)

3. Only 3 items, not stacks.
You may only steal 3 items, not stacks, at a time. Stealing so called "personal items", like journals, dresses or anything else not represented with an item IG, falls under what's realistic or not, AKA, Metagaming Rules.

[Spitfire333]

I feel the "three items" rule is wrong in some aspects. There shouldn't be a blanket rule about this, rather, it should be handled in a case-by-case basis.Now, obviously a character couldn't take more than three good-sized items inconspicuously, but what about coins, gems, and other small items of worth? Surely a character could take q pretty large amount of these. And then, there are cases when a character might take a very large item, and wouldn't be able to carry the other two items this rule allows. This rule should be changed in favor of a case-by-case policy.

[Tigady]

Seconded.

[Michelle]

I also support Spit here.
It should be a matter of realism and permissions in every case. People should expect their characters to possibly fail if they steal more than they can carry or conceal.

Also, personal items tend to be represented by IG items these days, so I'd like to add that that rule is somewhat redundant. It also implies that one can protect their items by making them IG items.

[Hutchy]

+1 for Spit.