Rules

Character Rules

• You may name and develop your crederian's backstory in line with our content guidelines and t.o.s.
• Owners may make edits to their Crederians within the [design editing guidelines]
• Approved edits may be made to official Phloxebutt artwork with permission. Please ask before submitting an edited Phloxebutt artwork to the masterlist.
  • Edits can be made to official Phloxebutt artwork at any time to show desired edits via the discord #design-check-in channel.
• You may create "AU" forms for your Crederian.(Alternate universe, or unofficial version of the design)
  • Human, Humanoid, and Anthropomorphic depictions of your Crederian may be used in the ARPG. Canonical forms for these versions will exist in the future but as long as we can recognize your Crederian's design, it will be welcome. 
  • AU forms depicting traits/species not earned on site will not be able to be used in the ARPG. 
  • You may create AU versions of your Crederian as species from other ARPGs if you have the myo slots/express permission from the species owner
    • Designs that are AU versions of each other may not be separated through trade or sale. If you have multiple forms that are recognizable you must trade or sell them all together.
    • Alternate species forms of non-Crederian species cannot be used in the Crederia ARPG
• By owning a Crederian, you agree to not do the following:
  • Claiming any artwork or designs as your creation if they were not created by you, or otherwise miss-crediting a design or piece of artwork.
  • Create copies or reproductions of the design or its likeness to be transferred to other users.
  • Use the character design for commercial purposes.
  • Mass producing any type of merchandise depicting the character design, reproductions of the character design, or artwork of the character design.
  • Using a character design for commercial purposes that are not specifically allowed by this terms of service. If you are unsure if use of a character is considered commercial, please contact staff.
  • Use the character design in any way that could be harmful, offensive, obscene, defamatory, or unlawful.
• Crederia does not support co-owning, and only a single user will be listed as a designs owner.

Trade/Resale Rules

• You may trade a design to another user in exchange for character designs, in-game items, or artwork.
  • You may additionally trade characters for items/currency from other ARPGs at your own discretion.
• You may not impose additional rules or restrictions on character sales or trades past what the Crederia website has done. 
• Characters labelled "can be resold" may be resold for the amount they were purchased for. Additional cost may be added if the design comes with commissioned work/physical merch. The cost should equal the total of commissioned work + Original design cost.
• You may not add additional cost to a design you drew art for.
• Characters may be "Vouchered" (inderectly sold) in exchange for a character design or art commission that meets the initial value of said design.
  • For example, you may ask for someone to purchase an art commission or character design for you. 
  • You may not voucher a design for money, gift cards, or any real life goods or services outside of the above two options. 
• All methods of resale must be submitted through the on-site trade function with clear mention of what is being traded. Characters wrongfully traded, vouchered, or sold will not have their ownership changed. Please pay careful attention to character allowances on their pages and never send money before verifying the validity of the sale.
• Account-locked characters may not be vouchered, traded, sold, or gifted at any time. 
• By owning a Crederian, you agree to not do the following:
  • Attempt to sell a character design for real life currency to anyone under the age of 16
  • Attempt to sell or transfer a character design to multiple different users at one time.
  • Attempt to voucher (indirectly sell) a character design that you did not purchase yourself for money, real world items, gift cards, or anything outside of the allowed vouchering terms below.
  • Trade or exchange a character to another user if it is not able to be traded.

FTO Accounts

• FTO accounts are able to request an FTO MYO (make-your-own) gift box via the Crederia discord after they've verified their accounts by attaching a valid deviantart or toyhouse accounts. 
• FTO (first time owner) labels appear on every new account made. If you own a Crederian and are labeled as an FTO, please check the staff account to see if your Crederians are being held there.
  • Users who do not own Crederians upon account creation are eligable for the FTO MYO Box.
  • If you own a Crederian and choose to pick up the FTO MYO Box before getting the character transferred to you, the item or MYO slot will be immediately deleted and you will be given a warning. 
  • Users eligable for the Legacy Gift Box who pick up the FTO MYO Box before getting their characters transferred over will lose the Item or MYO slot and the eligibility.
  • Users eligable for both the FTO MYO Gift Box and the Legacy box will recieve the Legacy box over the gift box, regardless of whether the item was already picked up. The FTO Gift Box will be removed.
• Each FTO account may only have one FTO MYO. 
• FTO  MYOS may only be swapped for other FTO MYOS from other users. They may not be sold or gifted.

Claiming characters from the Staff account.

• When claiming a character from the staff account , proof of purchase or trade will be required to have them transferred to your account. 
• Having your verified account (Deviantart or Toyhouse) match the archived DA Masterlist will have us instantly transfer them upon claiming if they are not automatically transferred to you.
  • If the DA masterlist account name is different from your current due to a name upgrade on the same account, a manual update will be required but please feel free to ask us to change it.