Community guidelines

Last updated: 12 October 2026

These guidelines apply everywhere on Duality: game sessions, chat, the forums, usernames, and anything you upload, such as images. By using the site, you agree to follow them.

Stories and roleplay

Duality is a tabletop roleplaying game. Villains, violence, crime, horror and other dark themes in your game's story are fine: describing them in fiction is almost never against the law. The main exception is sexual content. Sexually explicit stories or roleplay involving children, and some other extreme sexual material, can be illegal even when they are completely made up.

The rules below are about what you actually post and share. Calling something "roleplay" does not make it legal: a real threat against a real person is still a threat, and illegal images are illegal however they were made.

What is not allowed

Duality is run in the UK, so it must follow UK law. UK law places more limits on speech than some other countries, such as the United States, and some of those limits are broadly worded, leaving a lot to interpretation. The Online Safety Act 2023 also requires websites to act whenever there are reasonable grounds to believe content is illegal, without waiting for a court to decide. As a result, some content may have to be removed here that would be allowed elsewhere. We remove only what the law requires, but within those limits we have no choice.

You must not post, send, upload or share anything that is illegal in the UK, or use the site to commit or help with a crime. This includes:

• Child sexual abuse: indecent photos or videos of a child, including faked or AI-generated ones; pornographic drawings, cartoons or computer-generated images of children; sexually explicit stories or roleplay involving children; and any attempt to groom or sexually exploit a child.
• Terrorism: encouraging terrorism, sharing terrorist propaganda or attack instructions, or helping to fund, plan or carry out terrorism.
• Supporting a banned (proscribed) organisation: inviting support for it, expressing support for it when you are reckless about whether it encourages others to support it too, or showing or posting its flag, logo or similar in a way that suggests you are a member or supporter. The list of banned organisations is published on gov.uk. Accounts run by or for a banned organisation will be removed.
• Threats, menacing messages, harassment and stalking: threatening to kill or seriously harm someone, sending menacing messages, or repeatedly targeting someone in a way you know, or ought to know, amounts to harassment.
• Stirring up hatred: threatening words or material intended to stir up hatred against people because of their religion or sexual orientation, and threatening, abusive or insulting words or material intended, or likely, to stir up racial hatred. The details differ between England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Scotland and Northern Ireland also cover other groups, such as disabled people.
• Grossly offensive, indecent or obscene messages, as defined by the Communications Act 2003.
• Deliberate lies meant to hurt someone: sending a message you know is false, intending it to cause more than trivial psychological or physical harm to someone likely to see it, without a reasonable excuse (for example, falsely telling someone a family member has been hurt).
• Encouraging or helping someone to take their own life or to seriously harm themselves.
• Sexual and intimate image abuse: images or videos of a real sexual assault; sharing, or threatening to share, an intimate or sexual image of someone without their consent (including faked or AI images); and sending someone unwanted images of genitals to alarm, distress or humiliate them, or for sexual gratification ("cyberflashing").
• Extreme pornography, as defined by UK law.
• Sending flashing images intending to harm someone with epilepsy (for example, to trigger a seizure).
• Fraud and scams, and selling or supplying illegal drugs, weapons or other illegal goods.
• Content you have no right to share, such as someone else's artwork without permission (copyright), or false statements that seriously damage a real person's reputation (defamation). Unlike the rest of this list, these are usually not crimes, because the person harmed can take you to court instead. They are still unlawful, so they are removed if we are told about them and the content is unlawful.
• Anything else that is a criminal offence in the UK.

That is the whole list. Nothing is removed, and no account is suspended, just for being rude, unpopular or offensive to someone, unless it breaks the law.

Reporting illegal content

If you see something on Duality that you believe is illegal, use the Report button on the forum post, campaign notes page (Shared notes, Session notes pages, notes the GM has shown you, and, for a GM, a player's backstory), Scenery picture the GM is showing you, Treasury place (a group one, or for a GM a player's), or, for a GM, a player's character sheet, or email the site owner at gm@dualityttrpg.com, saying where it is and why you think it is illegal. (A Report button will be added to chat when it is built.) Reports are taken seriously and looked at as quickly as possible, and the person you report is never told who reported them.

Intimate images. If an intimate or sexual image of you has been shared on Duality without your consent, or you are reporting for the person shown in it, choose "An intimate image shared without consent" when you report it (or, by email, put "Intimate image report" in the subject line and say where the image is). You will be asked to confirm that it shows you (or the person you are acting for) and that your report is made in good faith and is true to the best of your knowledge. When reported through the Report button, the post, page or picture is hidden from other members straight away while it is reviewed. The image, and any copies we find, will be removed as soon as possible and within 48 hours. The only exception is if we consider that it is not an intimate image, or that the report is not from the person shown or someone acting for them.

What happens when the law is broken

The site owner will review every report. If the content is illegal, the site owner will:

• remove it as quickly as possible (members can't see removed content; it is kept for 28 days so it can be restored if an appeal succeeds, then erased), and
• depending on how serious it is, suspend the account for a set time, or delete it permanently.

How each kind of illegal content is kept up for as short a time as possible:

• Terrorist content is dealt with before any other report except child sexual abuse, and removed as soon as it is confirmed. Accounts run by, or on behalf of, a banned (proscribed) terrorist organisation are deleted.
• Child sexual abuse content is dealt with first of all. A post, notes page or picture reported through the Report button as child sexual abuse is hidden from other members straight away, before it is reviewed, and removed for good once confirmed. A picture removed for breaking the law is blocked across the whole site, so it can't simply be uploaded again. It is reported to the National Crime Agency, as the law requires.
• Intimate images shared without consent are also hidden straight away when reported, and removed within 48 hours.
• All other illegal content is reviewed as quickly as possible after it is reported, or after the site owner comes across it, and removed as soon as it is confirmed to be illegal.

Duality does not use automated scanning or other "proactive technology" to look for illegal content. Content is reviewed when someone reports it, or when the site owner comes across it. (Hiding a post straight away when it is reported, as described above, is a response to a report, not automated scanning.)

A suspended account is signed out straight away and cannot sign in until the suspension ends. This blocks it from everything on the site, including game sessions and the forums.

A deleted account, and everything linked to it, is erased permanently, except anything the law requires us to keep. For example, when child sexual abuse material is reported to the National Crime Agency, the law requires us to keep the material and related account information securely for one year, and the report's reference number for five years. After that, it is erased.

Where the law requires it, or someone's safety is at risk, content may also be reported to the police or other authorities.

Complaints and appeals

If your content was removed, or your account was suspended or deleted, and you think the decision was wrong, or you think this site isn't following these guidelines or the Online Safety Act, email the site owner at gm@dualityttrpg.com. Your complaint will be reviewed and you will be told the outcome. If a decision was wrong, it will be put right as far as possible: a suspension will be lifted straight away, and removed content will be put back (it is kept for 28 days after removal). A deleted account can't be restored, but you can be invited to create a new one.

If you made an intimate image report and are unhappy with how it was handled (for example, because the image is still up), put "Intimate image complaint" in the subject line. These complaints are dealt with before any others.

You can also tell Ofcom, the UK's online safety regulator, at ofcom.org.uk.

Your data

How your information is used, including what is kept when an account is suspended, is explained in the privacy and cookie notice.