Our community guidelines
Welcome to The Dungeon Gaming community! To ensure a positive and enjoyable experience for everyone, we've established these guidelines. Please take a moment to review them, as they help us maintain a respectful and vibrant space for all our members.
Frequently asked questions about our rules
We believe in fostering a community built on respect and understanding. These frequently asked questions aim to clarify our guidelines, ensuring that all members contribute to a welcoming and safe environment. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Don't Be a Jerk
This is the big one.
Joking, teasing, sarcasm, swearing, and friendly trash talk are all part of gaming. Personal attacks, targeted harassment, bullying, threats, or deliberately trying to make someone uncomfortable are not.
If someone tells you to knock something off, knock it off.
In-Game Behavior
When participating in TDG parties, events, hunts, cooking parties, home tours, competitions, or general group play:
- Follow the rules of the event.
- Don't intentionally sabotage other players.
- Don't steal assigned roles, ingredients, resources, or spots during organized events.
- Don't use exploits, mods, overlays, or outside programs when an event specifically prohibits them.
- Don't cheat in competitions.
- Respect the host and event organizers.
- If something goes wrong, give people a chance to fix it before turning it into drama.
- Remember that newer players may not know everything yet. Help them instead of making them feel stupid.
Friendly competition is encouraged.
Being a sore winner or a sore loser is considerably less entertaining.
Streaming & Twitch
When you're participating in a TDG stream, remember that what you say or do may be seen or heard by an audience.
Please:
- Don't intentionally reveal another person's private information.
- Don't bring personal arguments into stream chat.
- Don't spam, excessively self-promote, or repeatedly ask for follows, subs, raids, gifts, or shoutouts.
- Don't spoil games unless the streamer says spoilers are okay.
- Don't backseat game unless the streamer has asked for help.
- Respect moderators when they ask you to stop something.
- Don't intentionally say or do things designed to get someone else's Twitch account in trouble.
- If you're in voice chat while someone is streaming, assume you may be live.
If you aren't sure whether the stream can hear you, behave like it can.
Discord
Discord is where most of our community hangs out, so help us keep it somewhere people actually want to be.
- Use channels for their intended purpose when possible.
- Don't spam messages, tags, images, reactions, or DMs.
- Don't repeatedly @ members who aren't responding.
- Keep serious personal arguments out of public channels.
- Don't drag drama from another server, stream, or community into TDG.
- Don't advertise another Discord, stream, business, fundraiser, or community without permission where required.
- Don't impersonate staff, moderators, streamers, or other members.
- Respect moderator decisions even if you disagree with them. You can discuss the issue privately afterward.
Adult Community Does Not Mean Anything Goes
TDG is primarily an adult gaming community, so conversations can get weird, dark, sarcastic, and occasionally inappropriate.
That does not give anyone permission to harass people or repeatedly push conversations into sexual, graphic, hateful, or uncomfortable territory.
Know your audience.
Hate & Targeted Harassment
We don't require everyone here to think the same way, believe the same things, or have the same sense of humor.
We do require members to treat each other like human beings.
Content or behavior whose purpose is to seriously attack, degrade, threaten, or harass someone because of who they are isn't welcome here.
Disagreement is fine.
Targeting someone is not.
Privacy
Do not share another member's:
- Real name
- Address
- Phone number
- Private messages
- Personal photos
- Workplace information
- Account information
- Other identifying information
without their permission.
If someone tells you something privately, don't assume you have permission to make it public.
Voice Chat Etiquette
Voice chat gets chaotic. We know.
Still:
- Don't constantly talk over everyone.
- Avoid screaming directly into your microphone.
- Mute when there's excessive background noise.
- Don't repeatedly play loud sounds or music over other people.
- Don't record private voice conversations without everyone knowing.
- Give quieter people a chance to speak.
A little chaos is fun.
Six people screaming into microphones for twenty minutes is a different kind of experience.
Self-Promotion
We love supporting community members.
We do not love someone joining solely to advertise.
Use designated promotional areas when available and don't DM members unsolicited advertisements.
Being part of the community should come before treating the community like your personal billboard.
Handle Problems Like Adults
Not every disagreement needs to become a server event.
If you have a problem with another member:
- Talk to them privately if you feel comfortable doing so.
- Walk away or block them if needed.
- Contact a moderator if the situation continues or is serious.
Don't recruit half the server into taking sides.
Moderators
Mods are here to help keep things running, not to referee every personality conflict.
Depending on the situation, moderation may include:
Warning → Timeout/Mute → Removal from an event → Kick → Ban
Severe situations may skip directly to removal or a ban.
Trying to technically work around a rule while obviously violating its intent isn't going to earn you a loophole trophy.
The TDG Rule That Covers Everything Else
We want this community to remain somewhere people can:
Game. Laugh. Be weird. Make friends. Help each other. Escape real life for a while.
You don't have to agree with everyone.
You don't have to like everyone.
You don't even have to understand what the hell everyone is doing half the time.
Just don't make the community worse for the people around you.
Welcome to The Dungeon. Enjoy the chaos.
Join our respectful gaming community
By following these guidelines, we can all contribute to a thriving and enjoyable space for The Dungeon Gaming. Thank you for being a valuable part of our community. Let's game on responsibly!