Content rules

Who writes here

Everyone on RP Forge is 18 or older. You confirm that when you make an account. If we learn that a writer is under 18, the account is closed.

What is fine

Nearly everything. Violence, horror, cruelty, death, crime, grief, abuse as a theme, strong language, romance, desire, and sex that is implied or left off the page. Dark fiction is fine. A story is not an endorsement of what happens in it, and nobody here judges your taste.

Sex between adult characters, written on the page, is also allowed. A scene like that stays between the two writers: it cannot be made public, and it is never shown on a character's page.

What is not allowed

• Sexual content involving anyone under 18, or presented as under 18, whether or not it is explicit. That includes a stated age, words like “child” or “schoolgirl”, and sexual framing of a character whose youth is emphasised. Children can be in stories: in danger, hurt, frightened, even killed. Only sexual content makes a scene with a child prohibited.
• Sexual content about a real, identifiable person.
• Real-world threats, or personal details of real people. A real address, phone number or workplace, or a threat of harm to a real person, in a passage or in an aside. Threats between fictional characters are fine.

How a scene is checked

When a scene ends, an AI reads it to write the recap and sorts it into one of three zones: fine, explicit, or prohibited. It is told these same rules, and it is told to go only on what the text says, never on what it might imply. When it is unsure, nothing is locked; a person looks instead.

A scene the AI is sure is prohibited is locked. Nothing more can be written in it, it cannot be made public, and both writers are told. Either writer can ask for a review. A person then reads the whole scene and either unlocks it or keeps it locked. Most reviews are done within a day.

Either writer can also report a scene, and anyone signed in can report a character. A person reads every report. The other writer is never told who reported.

What happens when the rules are broken

A locked scene that a reviewer confirms stays locked. A writer who keeps writing prohibited content, or who posts a real person's details or threatens one, loses their account. Where the law requires it, we report to the authorities.

The rest of what you agree to is in the terms. What we keep and why is in the privacy notice.