Kinship rules

The rules have evolved through time and through the making of a kinship which is first and foremost a family, so are based on respect and care, with the aim being to bring out the best in us all, especially when relating to one another and when representing our kin to Middle Earth.

So there are a few areas where we need to be aware of how we act:

Kinship Chat
Try not to swear - there's no need when typing to swear, although anacronyms (wtf, ffs) are of course perfectly acceptable.

Please dont spam kin chat over and over again with the same question, requests or complaints. If people do not answer you in time, then move on.

Please only speak english, we are an english speaking kin on an english speaking server - we love the international feel of the kin, but respect that others may not understand you if you start talking in other languages.

Please remember the average age of this kinship is over 20, some topics of conversations may be ignored from time to time, similarly to all adults please remember we sometimes have members under 16 online...

Questing
LOTRO has been designed to be playable for the solo player as well as for fellowshiping, so there should be no real need to constantly ask for help with quests in kin.

There are instances and raids throughout the game that fellow kin members at the same level will play, its great to run with your kin mates in this way, but at lower levels there are fewer of these so unless there are other low level members who need a specific FS quest please try to do these with an LFF. If you really have problems then every weekend some maxed out characters surely will be available to help with low level questing, so save it til then.

Please do not constantly spam for power levelling or for help with quests which you can easily do alone, we love helping each other but all members have their own game to play, so please respect that. Plus its much more fun to get through the quests with new people and at your own speed.

Crafting
This is a big area for us, we love crafting for each other but as with everything this is done with respect and consideration, crafting is expensive and time consuming so please do not abuse it:

• Only ask for something to be crafted if you can provide the materials, or someone can help you get them.
• Please never offer any of your crafted good for sale within the kin, we respect that we all need to make money so if you do want to sell crafted goods stick it on Auction House at the going rate (this kin does not use kin only in AH either), in this kin we only give to each other, so if you want to give something away feel free, if you want to sell something go to the AH/trade channel
• The main rule really is helping each other with crafting, if you have spare materials and dont need them then there will be someone levelling their craft who does.

Money
In this kin we never ever ask each other for money, we have all levelled from 1 to our current levels and made in game money along the way, it is part of the game so please do not expect other members to give you money.

Ettenmoors
When you get to the moors we have two basic rules - break these enough times and you get kicked:

• No camping grams
• No camping graveyards

We dont like rules to be honest, the game is about fun, but in a game where real people are involved its important to remember that we are all here to play, have fun, and to respect that in each other within the kin, and outside the kin.

If anyone would like to add anything please do, any questions bring them to an officer or the leader of the kinship