Larian Studios

Forum Rules

CODE OF CONDUCT

These Forums are a space to have fun and discuss Larian Studios games and related topics, a place for friendly discussion and to connect with fellow members of the community.

It's everyone's responsibility to keep this a safe and positive community. This space is for everyone regardless of gender, gender identity/expression, sexuality, religion, race, ethnicity, or nationality. Offensive content or harassment on this basis, either personal or generalised, will not be tolerated. Be respectful of your fellow forum members.

In the end, we are all here to have fun, and we want to encourage everyone to share the joy of games and to feel they have a voice and a space!

If you have an issue within the community or you feel unsafe, please contact one of our Moderators.

Current Admins and Moderators:

The Red Queen
Vometia
Zerubbabel

RULES

Your Personal Behaviour

Be respectful towards all forum members.
Do not use excessive or extreme language.
Do not attempt to bypass blocked phrases or words.
Remain constructive and respectful of others' opinions and gameplay styles.
Remain respectful of game narratives and character preferences.
Do not target any forum member, including the Development, Community, and Moderator teams, with harassment, abuse, threats, or toxicity. This extends to previous forum members, moderators, and ex-employees.
Do not mock, torment, or berate individuals for any reason, including gender, age, race, occupation, knowledge of or lack of knowledge regarding game lore or D&D in general.

Off-Topic Conversation, Spam, & Troll Posting

Do not bait, troll, or post spam in these forums.
Do not harass or repeatedly spam individuals or teams.
Do not purposefully derail conversation or antagonise community members.
Keep your messages relevant to the discussion and avoid copypastas, reaction image spam, and emoji spam.

Misinformation & Speculation

Do not impersonate any person or entity, including but not limited to, Larian Studios employees or moderators.
Do not attempt to spread or intentionally share misinformation and falsehoods.

Community Safety

So that we can moderate effectively and keep everyone safe, please discuss in English.
Do not share provocative, offensive, or explicit material of any kind.
While we are aware that sometimes users might want to have these discussions on reference to the games, please try to keep conversations about heavier topics (abuse, sexual assault, etc) within spoilered text with an appropriate warning, so other users can choose if they want to engage.
Do not solicit or post anyone's personal information.
Do not promote or advertise any services.
Do not post content that encourages or references illegal activities, including piracy.
Do not post content that transmits any message, information, data, text, software or graphic files, or other materials ("Content") that is unlawful (including illegal drug usage), harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, hateful or racially, ethnically, sexually or otherwise objectionable.
Do not post content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party.
Do not post or transmit any content that intentionally or unintentionally violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, rule or regulation.

Irresponsible Promotion of Intolerant Game Mods & Game Piracy

Do not share, discuss or promote mods that aim to fundamentally change game content in a discriminatory or intolerant manner.
Do not discuss or promote the piracy of any game or other copyrighted software.
Do not distribute or engage in inappropriate file sharing. This extends to suspicious or unsafe links.

Ban Evading

Creating a new account to avoid a ban will result in the new account being permanently banned.

Formatting and Quality of Messages

Do not use Larian Studios Message Boards' features in a manner that adversely affects the availability of its resources to other users (e.g., excessive shouting [use of all caps] or flooding (continuous posting of repetitive text or topics).
Try to stay on topic in the current thread and subforum you are posting in. E.g. No promotion of non-BG3 videos inside the Baldur's Gate 3 subforums.

Bumping

Posting short or off-topic messages in old threads to keep them near the top of the forum causes clutter and can make more active threads more difficult to find. Please, keep any additions to threads on-topic and relevant.

VPNs

We ask that you don't use a VPN when registering in the Larian Forums, as these registrations tend to be flagged in the process as suspicious, due their use by spammers.

Larian Studios retains the right to exclusively determine what violates any of the above rules. Also, Larian Studios retains the right to exclusively decide who may access the forums.
Breaking any of the above Rules of Conduct will make your message board account subject to immediate banning, or your message deleted, edited or moved.
NOTICE: By submitting (e.g., uploading) Content to the Larian Studios Message Board, you automatically grant Larian Studios the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sub licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.