Content Policy

The rules in this policy apply everywhere on Wendfar. What differs between the two spaces is who can see the content and whether a person reviews it before it goes live.

• Private play is your sessions, and the worlds and cards you have not published. Nobody else sees it, and nobody reads it; it is still held to the rules below.
• Public content is anything you submit to Discover: a world’s name, tagline, premise, lore, rules, tone and tags; each card’s name, summary, details and art. It is reviewed by a person before it goes live, and it has to be something anyone could open.

This policy is part of the Terms of Service. Where it uses “minor” it means anyone under 18, real or fictional, whatever a card’s age field says.

These apply in private play exactly as they do in public. There is no setting, narrator or disclaimer that unlocks them.

• No sexual content involving minors. Not real ones, not fictional ones, not characters written as adults but coded as children (childlike bodies, school settings, diminutive framing, “actually a thousand years old”), not implied, not off-screen. This is the one thing that ends an account on the first occurrence, and where the law requires it we report it.
• No real people in sexual or abusive fiction. Do not write a real, identifiable person, public or private, into sexual content, or into content that harasses, threatens or defames them. Historical figures in ordinary fiction are fine.
• No private information. Do not put anyone’s address, contact details, identity documents or other private data into Wendfar, yours included; the narrator does not need it and it should not sit in a story.
• No real-world harm. Do not use the narrator to plan, rehearse or obtain instructions for actual violence, abuse, fraud or crime against real people, or to make material that is illegal to create or hold in the United Kingdom.

Your sessions are yours and nobody reads them. That privacy is not an exemption: the rules above apply in private play exactly as they do in public, and breaking them there has the same consequences. Within those rules, adult fiction is allowed to be serious. Violence, horror, tragedy, moral failure and cruelty with consequences are part of it, and you choose the world, the tone, the narrator and every action.

Two practical notes. The narrator carries its own judgement and may decline or redirect something even inside these rules; regenerate, steer it with a direction, or try another narrator. And the memory system writes down what happens in play: if you would rather a moment were not remembered, discard or edit the memory from the Memories panel.

Every character on Wendfar, yours or the narrator’s, must be an adult. A character card carries an age, which must be 18 or over, and its description is checked as well, because a number on its own is easy to game. A card that reads as a child in its body, behaviour, setting or framing is refused whatever the age field says. If a card is refused you can edit and resubmit it, and you can ask a person to look by writing to [email protected].

Characters who appear in play without a card are held to the same standard: if the narrator is asked to place a minor in a sexual scene, the rule above applies regardless of whether a card exists.

Discover is a public shelf. Anyone can browse it without an account, and search engines index it, so what goes there is held to the standard of a bookshop window, not a private notebook. A person on our team reads everything before it goes live. Published content must not contain:

• Sexual or explicit content of any kind, in text or art. No nudity, no sexual acts, no fetish framing, no cards written to be sexual objects. Romance and attraction are part of many good stories and are fine; Discover is safe for work, full stop.
• Gratuitous gore or the glorification of real-world violence, terrorism or tragedy. Violence in service of a story is fine; a snuff scene as a card is not.
• Hate. Content that attacks or demeans real people for who they are: race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sex, sexuality, gender identity, disability, or similar. Prejudice between fictional peoples inside a world is a story device and is allowed when it is clearly that.
• Promotion of self-harm, suicide or eating disorders. Characters who struggle with these are allowed; content that encourages or instructs is not.
• Real people. Cards or worlds built around a real, identifiable person, living or recently dead, other than public historical figures treated as history.
• Other people’s work. Characters, settings, text or art you do not have the right to share. Homage and original work in a genre are fine; lifting a copyrighted character, a book’s text or an artist’s image is not. Art must be yours to publish.
• Spam, advertising and links. No promotion of other services, no affiliate or external links, no contact details, no duplicate submissions to game the shelf.
• Misleading framing. The name, tagline and tags must describe what the item is.

We may also decline something that breaks none of these but is not ready: empty cards, placeholder text, art that does not match. A decline comes with a note saying why, and you can fix it and resubmit. Your working copy stays yours and playable throughout.

Every public world and card has a Report button. Pick the reason that fits, add a note if it helps, and a person will look. Reports never remove anything automatically; a human decides, and we tell the reporter nothing about the outcome beyond that it was reviewed. Filing reports to harass a creator is itself a breach.

If you come across anything involving minors, report it and stop. Do not save it, share it or investigate it yourself.

If you believe published content on Wendfar infringes your copyright or other rights, write to [email protected] with: a link to the item; a description of the work you say is infringed and your right in it; your name and contact details; and a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised and that your notice is accurate. We act on valid notices promptly, tell the creator what was removed and why, and pass them your notice so they can respond. A creator who disputes a removal can send us a counter-statement, and we may restore the item if the claimant does not pursue it. Repeated infringement loses the right to publish.

We match the response to the breach. In rough order:

1. a decline at review, with a note;
2. removal of a published item;
3. a temporary or permanent restriction on publishing;
4. a pause on the account while we look at something serious in private play;
5. closure of the account, which also takes down everything you published.

Sexual content involving minors goes straight to closure. Creating a new account to get around a restriction extends it to the new account.

If you think we got it wrong, write to [email protected] within 30 days with the item or decision and why. A different person looks at appeals from the one who made the call, where we have the people to do that.

This policy will be tightened or clarified as we learn what people make. Changes that narrow what is allowed in public content take effect for new submissions from the date at the top; content already live is reviewed against the new rule before anything is removed. Changes to the rules that apply everywhere take effect immediately.