Help Index :: Misc :: pet_rules Pets can be a lot of fun and good helpers in the realm. However, they can also be horribly abused. Pets are any mob following you that you have control over that is not you. Familiars, mounts, animals/living things bought at pet stores, and animals/living things tamed by ranger pet spells, and created/owned undead are all considered pets. Unfortunately there's also room for abuse where pets are concerned, so here's a little lit of what not to do (some of these things can get you banned). You are not allowed to aquire pets with the intent to release them later to kill them. -This means no wounding pets, making them sleep, releasing them, killing them. -This mean no taming a pet to remove it from the safety of its guardians. (ie taming sheep to remove them from Pennan to kill them elsewhere) -This also means no taming the white timber wolf to remove her from her mate with intent to release/kill her so you can tame her mate. (a hint, there IS a legal way to achieve taming the male) You are not allowed to send them into battles you are not a part of. -In particular this means no sending hords of pets in to kill shop keepers while you stand idly by and watch them get killed by the keeper and guards. Honestly, what keeper/guard wouldn't notice you give the orders and attack you? The code just can't handle that yet, so its not allowed. It is not recommended that you release aggressive pets in areas that they could easily destroy lower level players. Doing so would be considered abuse and could be punishable. The imms can see when you aquired pets, when they are released and when they die. It looks awfully suspicious to check your player log and find you die once to every 20 pet deaths. It looks equally suspicious to see you tamed a dozen animals and released them shortly thereafter. In fact, that looks more like you're moving them elsewhere to be killed or killing them yourselves. Granted, pets will die, but there's a difference between reasonable chance of death and abusing the options given you. In particular this occurs with rangers. A ranger's communion with nature allows them to tame the pets. I would hate to see tame end up like familiars, only one tame per level, because rangers are abusing it. -Talis