Terms & Conditions

By submitting an adventure addon to The Wudlands, you agree to the terms set out on this page in full. Please read carefully before contributing any content. These terms exist to keep The Wudlands running, growing, and free to evolve as the project develops. If you do not agree, please do not submit content.

1. Rights to Submitted Content

When you submit an adventure, story, scene, encounter, character, or any other content to The Wudlands, you grant The Wudlands an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, distribute, and display that content in any form, through any medium, at any time, without restriction and without further notice to you. This includes but is not limited to use within the game itself, promotional material, derived works, and future versions of the platform. Contributors retain ownership of their original content and can also redistribute it or commercialize it but acknowledge that The Wudlands has the right to use it in any way.

The Wudlands reserves the right to alter, edit, rewrite, restructure, or remove any submitted content at its sole discretion. Submitted adventures may be changed in narrative, tone, mechanics, or structure to fit the needs of the platform. You will not be consulted before such changes are made. By submitting, you accept that your contribution becomes part of The Wudlands in whatever form the project team sees fit.

2. Romantic Storyline & Minne

The Wudlands uses courtly-love tropes (historically called "Minne") as a deliberate, genre-specific narrative device: structured NPC-affection mechanics, quest triggers tied to social status, and consequence-bearing reward paths. These conventions are retained for aesthetic fidelity to legacy fantasy gamebooks, but are implemented as optional mechanics and not prescriptive social guidance. Creators must label significant romantic content in addon metadata; explicit romance must comply with platform content policies (see Section 5).

3. Revenue Share

The Wudlands may offer a revenue split with contributors, as described on the Create page. This is entirely voluntary, not guaranteed, and does not create any employment relationship or legal entitlement. Revenue may be changed or discontinued at any time. Contributors may suggest a price, but The Wudlands reserves final say on pricing. Each adventure allows 3 plays; further plays require paying the fee again.

4. Blockchain & Wallet Addresses

The Wudlands currently uses Polkadot with optional Ethereum addresses for revenue distribution. The platform may migrate to a different blockchain at any time. Wallet addresses are stored securely and used only for payment purposes; they are not sold or shared with third parties. Providing an address does not guarantee any payment, and you may see your address reflected in smart contracts.

5. Content Standards, Age Restrictions & Player Warnings

The Wudlands is a dark fantasy adventure platform. By its nature it contains mature themes including violence, death, horror, moral ambiguity, and psychological distress. The platform is intended for users aged 16 and above as a baseline. Certain content sections or addons marked as adult may only be appropriate for users aged 18 and above. By using The Wudlands you confirm that you meet the age requirement for the content you are accessing. It is the responsibility of parents and guardians to ensure that minors do not access content beyond their age rating.

The Wudlands carries content warnings for the following: graphic depictions of violence and injury, themes of death, torture, captivity, and sacrifice, psychological horror and existential dread, morally complex scenarios with no clean resolution, disturbing imagery described in text, and — in adult-flagged content sections — erotic or sexually explicit material between adult characters. These elements are part of the dark fantasy genre and are present by design. If you are sensitive to any of these themes, please exercise caution or avoid content marked accordingly. The game experience is not designed to be comfortable.

The following content is absolutely prohibited in all submitted addons regardless of age flag or context, with zero tolerance and immediate removal: any sexual content involving characters who are minors or described as minors; sexual violence presented approvingly or without clear narrative consequence; graphic violence against innocent characters presented purely for shock value, without any narrative purpose or consequence; content that glorifies, celebrates, or incites real-world hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, or national origin; content that reproduces or promotes real-world atrocities, genocide, or war crimes in a positive light; and any content designed to harass, threaten, or target real individuals. Violations will result in immediate removal of the addon and permanent exclusion from the platform.

Dark themes, moral horror, and disturbing scenes are permitted and at times encouraged when they serve the story and atmosphere. Violence in The Wudlands is a consequence of the world, not a reward. Monsters are dangerous. Villains may be cruel. Innocents may suffer. These things can appear in a story if they carry weight and meaning. What is never acceptable is cruelty presented as entertainment without narrative purpose — scenes that exist only to degrade, shock, or harm without any consequence or context within the story. Addon creators are trusted to understand the difference. The Wudlands team will remove content that crosses this line without warning or appeal.

6. Erotic Content

Erotic content is permitted exclusively in addons that have been explicitly flagged as adult content by the creator and reviewed by The Wudlands. All characters involved in any erotic scene must be unambiguously adult. No ambiguous ages are acceptable — if the age of a character is unclear, they must be written and described as adults, and the platform reserves the right to remove any content where this is in doubt. Erotic content must remain consensual within the narrative context or, where non-consensual scenarios appear, must handle them with appropriate weight and consequence. Gratuitous or exploitative depictions are not permitted.

Contributors must only submit original content that they have the right to share. Submitting stolen, plagiarised, or otherwise copied text, artwork, or images is strictly prohibited. The use of generative AI tools and large language model (LLM) output is permitted — AI-assisted writing, AI-generated imagery, and LLM-produced text are all acceptable contributions, provided the contributor holds the necessary rights or the content is otherwise freely usable. However, reproducing or adapting content from the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series — including stories, characters, place names, game mechanics, and artwork from those books — is expressly forbidden. Fighting Fantasy is a protected intellectual property. Submissions that incorporate Fighting Fantasy material will be removed immediately, and the contributor may be permanently excluded from the platform. This restriction applies regardless of how heavily the source material is paraphrased or adapted.

The Wudlands is a living platform. The game experience — including story content, available addons, mechanics, reward structures, and platform features — may change at any time without prior notice. Addons may be modified, rebalanced, retired, or removed. New content restrictions or moderation standards may be introduced as the platform evolves and as legal or community requirements change. Players and contributors should not assume that the experience they encounter today will remain identical in the future. The Wudlands does not guarantee continuity of any specific story, mechanic, reward, or feature across platform updates.

7. Character Portrait Images

Character creation lets you supply a portrait by pasting an image URL. This image is loaded and displayed locally in your own browser only — The Wudlands does not host, store, or take ownership of it. You are solely responsible for any image you choose to display, including ensuring you have the right to use it and that it complies with the content standards set out in Section 5. This feature is provided for personal use only and must not be used to link images that are illegal, infringing, or otherwise inappropriate. The Wudlands accepts no responsibility for third-party image content that a user chooses to link.

8. Summary