1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By creating an account, creating a character and/or posting on our boards and/or using our chatchannel, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and any modifications made to it in accordance with Section 10 below.

2. TAZLURE
Tazlure is an online play-by-post fantasy role-playing game with a diceless but moderated gamesystem.

Tazlure.nl resides in Leiden, the Netherlands, and is therefor subject to Dutch and European Union Law. Any issues of law need to be brought to the Leiden Court.

Tazlure, Tazlure.nl and all its subsidiaries are owned by Tanja de Bie and Saskia Kellenbach.

Tazlure is privately owned. The owners are represented by the Gamedesigners, who are the ultimate authority everywhere in Tazlure. At all times the spirit of the rules will take precedence to its actual wording, subject to the review of Gamedesigners, provided it is not in contradiction to these Terms of Service.

The owners of Tazlure do not receive profits of any kind from this site, but reserve the right to collect voluntary donations from users to be able to reduce the costs of the server, domainname and other game expenses. The proceeds of the merchandise go in full towards this goal as well. Tazlure staff receive no compensation of any kind for their time. A full financial accounting can be requested by users at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Tazlure is staffed by volunteers and these volunteers are to be treated with respect at all times. Tazlure staff follows the guidelines in the Mod Charter to ensure that you are treated correctly.

3. REGISTRATION
Registration with Tazlure is free. We do insist that you are at least 14 years of age and that you read the introduction, the FAQ sheets, the Rules, the World Guide and the Players Guide, prior to character creation, and follow them while using our resources.

You may only register ONE account per IP address, unless you have asked permission to register more than one account. Exceptions will be made for 2nd PC's, moderator logins, relatives or friends using the same computer etc. provided Tazlure Administration is informed beforehand at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Termination of your account
Accounts that have not been used over a period of more than two weeks without prior warning will be periodically removed. Your charactersheet may be archived, but we cannot garantee that you can restart your PC (player character). Moderators will take control of inactive PC's as NPC (non playing character) and may on occassion have made irrevocable changes to your PC, including a slow and unpleasant death at their sole descretion.

Accounts that have never been activated or have been abondoned will be periodically removed. Sheets that are not modified upon request will be deleted seven days after their original submission date. This is done to keep our database registration current and prevent users receiving mail from Tazlure when it is not wanted (spam). If you want your account to be saved over a longer period, or want to be removed from our database, please inform Tazlure Administration at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If for whatever reason the Tazlure Administration considers you no longer a member of the community, the Adminstration may, at its sole discretion, terminate your password, account (or any part of it) or ability to use Tazlure, and remove and discard your character.

4. CONTENT ACCESSIBLE ON TAZLURE
Tazlure contains a huge variety of settings within which many phases of the human (and not so human) condition are explored within a fantasy flavor (the "Content"). Please use caution and common sense when viewing the various forums.

This site is not for you if you are younger than 14 or of a strong conviction that might make you, your parents or your guardians object to our content. Profanity may be used IC with moderation. Descriptions of violence and sex may be explicit as long as they are in good taste and used with moderation. In principle no topic is off limit as long as it doesn't glorify certain crimes. Tazlure management will exercise its own discretion to moderate all topics, including editing or deleting topics. However, we do not take any responsibility for players that are confronted with material they are not comfortable with. However you are advised to follow our system of comfortzones to avoid such situations. 

Concerning out of character debates we ask that you follow our tolerance rules, that ensure real life international disputes do not have a spill over effect on our boards or in our chatchannel.

1. Speak for yourself
If you participate in a debate you are kindly asked to speak only for yourself and not for the ethnic, national, religious or political group you belong to. We are all individuals here. You can describe your own opinion and views. Don't assume all "members of your group" will agree. Don't assume your opinion is an unanimously acknowledged fact, especially where it concerns your religious and political views.

2. Do not speak in General Terms about others
Likewise please do not use general terms to describe other groups of people. It often invites inflammatory reactions from others. Be specific, and preferably give arguments for your opinion.

3. Don't abuse history as an argument
If you give arguments please do not abuse history as a rethorical trick. It triggers irritated responses from people with a college education, as well as putting oil on the fire of extreme patriotism and religious fanaticism. It is not a constructive contribution to the debate.

4. Keep Discrimination (including Racism) and extreem Religious / Atheist / Patriotic / Political Fanaticism off these boards.
If a subject verges on this, it is violating several aspects of our Rules of Tolerance. If you wish to air these extreme views there are other places that are more appropriate. This still allows a moderate exchange of arguments by individuals on any subject, even the sensitive ones, on the forums. In our chatroom a #Netherworld call might be made on this, on a case by case basis.

5. Show respect
No opinion or view is ever stupid or alien. Everybody has the freedom to express their thoughts as long as they stick to our rules of tolerance, terms of service and the Mods Charter.

Posts in Tazlure that do not contribute to the debate and are in direct violation of our rules on tolerance will be removed without further warning.

All OOC political, religious and philosophical statements made by moderators, including the game designers & owners, are personal views and do not represent the views of Tazlure unless specifically stated as the official view of the Tazlure Administration.

5. PLAYER CONDUCT
The law is the law, and it applies universally even if we don't acknowledge it right here in in our Terms of Service. In addition to existing laws you are not allowed to use Tazlure's resources to:

(a) forward concepts of racism, discrimination, or (sexual) harrassment;

(b) begin, participate in or otherwise engage in flame wars, cyberpolitics, trolling or immature behavior;

(c) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, moderator, gamedesigner, chat room op, administration, owner, or any other official;

(d) disseminate off-topic messages on boards or in chat promoting any product, service, web site, board or venture, or promote boards on Tazlure through unsolicited electronic mail messages to third parties.

(e) advertise, promote or otherwise display the URL's or names of any current PBP, or online game, unless they are one of our Strategic Partners. By that same note, do not use the Tazlure.nl resources to bash, blacklist or otherwise negatively impact other PBP's or online games of the RP genre. At all times keep your RPG links limited to your profile.

6. COPYRIGHTS
In additon to what is described in section 5 please take note of the following:

We will give credit where credit is due, but all copyrights on "Tazlure", its world and the names of characters therein are reserved by the original creators, and owners, of this game Tanja de Bie and Saskia Kellenbach.

By submitting skills, equipment etc. as well as background material, including all material created in your role as staffmember or supporter, you give Tazlure and Tazlure.nl first rights to this material which means that although the material remains your intellectual property (and you can reproduce it elsewhere) it can and will be reproduced in other games of the same owners, and any publications concerning Tazlure, both electronic and on paper as well as any other medium that is available, without any monetary compensation, now or in the future.

Please note that in the same vein your contributions as your player character become part of Tazlure, and thus fall under the same first right rules. This does not limit your use of your PC outside Tazlure in your own creative endeavors. However you cannot "erase" a PC from Tazlure's history. In other words you cannot withdraw your PC, and if for whatever reason you are unable to continue your PC it will be taken over as NPC.

All material on this site is for personal use only and may not be published, altered, redistributed or posted on Mailing Lists, Web Pages, News Groups, FTP Sites or Bulletin Boards without the express permission of Tazlure and Tazlure.nl or the respective author/artist.

Tazlure is commited to bringing original content to the internet. In addition to upholding copyright and trademark laws in a pro-active way instead of waiting for a complaint to be lodged, Tazlure goes further by disallowing the use of brandnames and any carbon copied character from books, movies or any other medium. Be original!

Regarding submissions to Tazlure we will actively uphold the copyright of others. All submitted art (including articles) must be by your own hand. The work of art must be completely original, save that it is derived of or inspired by Tazlure. This means that your work of art cannot be a direct tracing or copying in whole or in part any existing work of art that you do not own the intellectual property of. It can also not be based on celebrity photo's etc.

7. FAIR USE POLICY
We consider derivative work about Tazlure, including but not limited to art, stories and poetry, both on and offline, a compliment, but require that you:

a) notify us that you have created derivative material about Tazlure available to others, including a link ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

b) give credit to Tazlure by linking back to us online, and providing information on how to contact us offline

c) give us, Tazlure, permission to (re)publish your material both on and offline on our own sites and publications with proper credits.

d) do not use any original material from Tazlure as copyrighted by us. This includes the word Tazlure or Tazlurian. Do not use other derivative work from Tazlure that does not belong to you.

e) do not use your derivative work for any commercial venture

If you want to use (part of) the Tazlure system to create your own game, permission may be granted on a case to case basis. Please contact the owners via This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . We appreciate a note from fellow games that use concepts even if they neatly avoid the clauses in these Terms of Services as allowed under US and EU law. Do the ethical thing!

8. PRIVACY POLICY
Tazlure recognizes that our users have legitimate concerns about privacy. This privacy policy, which is part of our User Agreement, sets forth our practices regarding the collection and use of "personal information". "Personal information" is information that personally identifies you, including, for example, your name, address, and email address.

You provide certain personal information to us when you: (a) register for Tazlure, (b) enter contests sponsored by us or one of our partners, (c) send email messages, submit forms or send other information to us. We may collect personal information from you at other points on our site that state that personal information is being collected. Our servers automatically collect information about which pages are viewed within Tazlure.nl. We use a feature of your browser called a "cookie" to assign a User ID that automatically identifies your computer when you visit the site.

We use personal information, among other things, to anticipate and resolve problems with your service, to personalize your service and to investigate activity that may violate our user agreement. You should note that personal information that you voluntarily disclose in forums or in chat rooms may be used by third parties.
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties with the following exceptions. We may be forced to disclose information to the government under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Additionally, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your personal information to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate.

9. DISPUTES
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of Tazlure on Tazlure resources. However, if there is a dispute that can not be settled without mediation send proof of the conversation(s) and your general views to the Gamedesigners at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and mediation will be taken care of within a period of 2 weeks. We prefer you do not post private issues on the public boards of Tazlure.nl, and ask that you do not involve us with issues that have nothing to do with Tazlure.

Note that the staffmembers are held to higher standards under the Mods Charter and keep logs at all times by requirement, including PM's. Tazlure does not monitor behavior outside Tazlure resources unless it has a direct and major impact on Tazlure itself. Abuse of this mediation priveledge is taken very seriously and may lead to disciplinary measures.

Complaints Procedure
If you want to report a violation of the rules & regulations of Tazlure, the Mod Charter or the Terms of Service please send your motivated letter to the Gamedesigners at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The complaint will be reviewed within 2 weeks.  Abuse of this complaint procedure is taken very seriously and may lead to disciplinary measures. Disciplinary measures include formal and informal warnings, temporary and permanent bans on the forums and/or in our chatchannels and anything else that the Gamedesigners think is warranted.

When considering disciplinary measures the GD's use logs, email, testimony etc. Decisions are based on the spirit or intention of the rules and the general good of the whole of Tazlure. The GD's ensure that they are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that their decision is necessary, without allowing any form of rules lawyering. Please remember that Tazlure is a private organisation and not a court of law.

10. MODIFICATION
We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on our site at www.tazlure.nl. All amendments shall automatically be effective 10 days after they are initially posted on our site. Your use of Tazlure following the effective date of any modifications shall constitute your binding acceptance of those modifications.

11. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE - ENGLISH
While we do not demand you are a native English speaker, a firm grasp of English is necessary to be able to play this game. You are asked to use a spelling checker before posting. A continued display of a lack of understanding of English may be reason to ask you to leave the game.