Community Guidelines

Etournal is a place to run and play tabletop role-playing games. Tabletop stories go to dark places — that is part of the form, and these guidelines are not here to sanitise your campaign. They are here so that what happens at your table stays a matter between the people at it, and so the parts of Etournal that are public stay usable by everyone.

1. Your table is yours

Content inside a private campaign — your world, your notes, your sessions — is between you and the people you invited. We do not police the tone of a private game. Violence, horror, moral complexity and adult themes are all part of the genre. What follows applies with full force to anything public: listings in the game directory, public profiles, usernames, and anything visible to people who did not choose to sit at your table.

2. What is never allowed, anywhere

These apply in private games too, because they are not matters of taste:

• Sexual content involving minors, in any form, including fictional or illustrated. There is no context in which this is acceptable and no warning before removal.
• Content that harasses, threatens, or targets a real person — including doxxing (posting someone's private information) and coordinated pile-ons.
• Material that promotes violence or hatred against people for who they are — race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• Content that sexualises real people without their consent.
• Using Etournal to break the law, distribute malware, or attack the service.

3. Other people's work

Do not upload commercial adventure content you did not write — published adventure modules, scanned or retyped rulebooks, or paid supplements — even to a private campaign. Running a published adventure at your table is normal and fine; making a copy of the book on our servers is not, and it is the fastest way to get a copyright complaint filed against your account and against us.

Rules content that a publisher has openly licensed (such as material released under an open game or creative-commons licence) is welcome — see Licenses & Attribution for what Etournal itself ships under those licences.

If you believe your copyright has been infringed on Etournal, the takedown process is on the Copyright & DMCA page.

4. Public listings

A game listed publicly is an invitation to strangers, so it carries an extra duty: describe the game honestly, label mature content as mature, and say what you actually expect of players. Listings are reviewed and may be edited or removed at our discretion. Do not use a listing to advertise something that is not a game on Etournal.

5. Treat the people you play with well

Say what your game contains before someone commits an evening to it. Honour a request to steer away from a subject. Do not out, mock, or pressure the people at your table. A game master has real authority over other people's time and enjoyment here; use it accordingly.

6. Reporting

Public listings and profiles carry a report control. For anything else — or anything urgent — email support@etournal.com and tell us what you saw and where. Reports are read by a person. Reporting in bad faith, or to harass someone, is itself a violation.

7. What happens when a line is crossed

Depending on what happened, we may remove the content, hide or delete a listing, restrict an account, or close it. We aim to warn first for judgement calls and to act immediately for the items in section 2. Accounts that repeatedly infringe other people's copyright are terminated — that is a policy we are required to have and one we apply.

If you think we got it wrong, reply to the notice we send you and a person will look again.

8. Changes and contact

These guidelines will change as the community grows; significant changes get notice in the app or by email. Questions: support@etournal.com. See also the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.