A series of links to help new players get up to speed on our fiction quickly. Please note, we take our fiction seriously and expect you to learn. We do not do applications and are willing to let you learn as your role-play, but don't take the lack of applications as indication that we are not as serious about our fiction as others may be.

Further, we are attempting to cultivate a like-minded community that is pro-Gor with these these ideals in mind. If you're not yet on page with these goals, you're welcome to join us as long as you're moving toward the goal. If you have no desire to fit in with this ideal (or worse, you're just here for easy targets), this may not be the server for you and you may be forced to leave by the community or asked to leave by the admins.

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What is Gor? If you know nothing about Gor, you should read this article first.

Gor RP Etiquette (Rules)

There are some significant differences in our role-play etiquette then you may be familiar with if you come from a standard role-play communities. Such differences include the way we communicate with each other out of character, how we handle thought-emotes, meta-gaming, power gaming, and OOC limits. You will be expected to understand these differences. <Read More>

Gorean Cheat Sheet

We have created as brief a list of important information about Gorean role-play as is possible to do with a fiction that spans more then 30 books. It is not everything you need to know, and many experienced Goreans will disagree with the priority placed on one thing over another, but it should get you started. <Read More>

In Character Restrictions

Updated 6/13/24 Chainmail has been restricted. There are codified rules on how you must dress and act on Gor. Many of these are actual laws in some of the cities and can be enforced in character with a wide variety of punishments. These minimum restrictions apply to all characters regardless of their background. These standards are much more flexible than the books and is intended to be a compromise between the ideal and the reality of role-play. Do not ignore this list, we will enforce it if necessary. <Read Me>

Where to find more information

Read the Books

You will hear this over and over and over so you might as well get use to it. Go read the books.

Gorean Cave

The Gorean Cave is generally considered a safe website for Gorean knowledge because it offers book quotes without interpretation

Luther Scrolls

Since the Books of Gor were started back in 1966 many texts have already been written and many persons have spent countless hours studying and sharing information to help others understand better what is GOR. One of these persons is known as “Ubar Luther” who wrote a series of papers (most seem to be over 15 to 20 years old, but still very up-to-date in many topics) called the “Luther’s Gorean Educational Scrolls” that were available on Gor-Now.net, but that site has been hacked. Interpretation of the books is widely contested, and Luther's articles are no exception. However, they are an invaluable resource for those new to Gor and so to preserve them I have moved a copy over to our wiki. <Read More>

Gor Culture Comparison

Many of the cultures from Gor are based on historical Earth cultures. This page is intended to be a way to help new players being their search for the cultures they are most interested in. Further, since we have so many Conan role-players we have included the Conan cultures as comparison as well. <Read More>

What is (Gorean) Immersive OOC

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Backstory and Race

If you are going to jump into role-play right away you need to know somethings about your character's possible back story. I have outlined the key points. Remember this is set on the planet of Gor.

Our server offers two "races" for players to choose from; Gorean, and Earthling. (These races are less actual races and more references to geographical locations like we might say Asian or European.)

• Goreans are those characters who were born on the mainland of Gor which includes the large continent and surrounding islands represented in the book series by John Norman.
• Earthlings are those characters taken from modern day earth to be brought to Gor primarily to become slaves.

Further information for those new to the fiction can be found here: <Read Me>

Earthling: Earth Native

Playing as someone from Earth

This is a common backstory for those who are new to Gor, and it is certainly a valid backstory in the fiction, especially for slaves.

• English (and all other earth languages) are not the same as Gorean, and there is no "common". Consequently, anyone brought from Earth will not be able to speak the Gorean language.

• Earth girls are usually only brought to Gor as slaves. They are typically collared (but not branded) before they even arrive on the planet. A free man who learns that a player is from Earth, is likely to assume they should be enslaved simply because they are from earth.

• Untrained Slaves or Free Woman turn Slave: While we all understand that part of the allure of the books is the erotic descent into Gorean love slave, there are rarely enough male roleplayers who enjoy the training of slave girls to satisfy those who wish to experience this - manage your expectations.

• Further there are many lore examples of slave girls simply being punnished "until they figure it out" for the rest of the male population to justifiably not engage in this type of role-play if it doesn't interest them.

• References to Earth lore, technology, food, history, etc are rarely appreciated in Gorean role-play. We do not want to talk about hamburgers, airplanes, televisions or World War II -- AND this is almost never brought into the book as dialog, so its a justified pushback.

• "Free the slaves", "women are equals" is certainly part of the mindset of Earth girls who are brought to Gor. But these points of view are not appreciated and will be actively discouraged by other Goreans. You may get something as simple as a funny look or as severe as an attack/beating/capture. Such sentiments, from female chars, out you as an Earth born girl who are considered by Goreans to be "natural slaves".

Far more respected is the new player who is trying their best to learn the fiction without forcing the educational process onto others.