Roleplaying Guidelines Info Dump

I've been doing a lot of work recently to revamp one of the roleplaying forums over at HOL and it seems to be having a good influence. During the course of the various tidying up sessions I've come ridiculously close to deleting valuable information more than once while merging threads and moving things around.

So I'm copy/pasting it all here so I have a permanent record of it away from the forum on which it is based, just in case.

( Infodump )