Terms of Service
1. What Bot Bastards is
Bot Bastards is a digital collectible game set in an original fictional universe (the Bastardverse). Each paid or free "forge" generates a unique digital robot character (a "Bastard") with a permanent Bastard Identification Number (its BIN), a name enforced unique at the database level, personality traits, and a portrait. Bastards are digital content inside our service. They are not cryptocurrency, not NFTs, not securities, not an investment, and have no cash value. There is no blockchain anywhere in the product.
Bastards are AI-assisted creations produced inside a human-authored system: we author the universe, the lore, the character classes, the rarity architecture, and the serial system, and we curate and direct the generation pipeline. The AI produces portraits, names, and dialogue within that authored system.
Game features beyond the Forge (including Bastard Bay, expeditions, and anything we add later) are entertainment. We may change, add, or retire features as the game grows, and no feature confers cash value.
2. Who can play
You must be 18 or older to use Bot Bastards. By using the service you represent that you are at least 18. We may suspend or terminate, without refund, any account we reasonably believe belongs to someone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
3. Accepting these terms; changes
You accept these terms by the affirmative actions described above, including checking the "I confirm I am 18 or older and I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy." box at account creation or claiming. We may update these terms as the game grows. Material changes will be announced on the site and the "Last updated" line above will change; continued use after the effective date means acceptance.
4. Your Bastard
When you forge or claim a Bastard, it is yours to enjoy: view it, share it, show it off, send it Off-Thread, and follow it for as long as the game lives. No one else will ever hold the same one; uniqueness is enforced at the database level.
So that we can keep building the universe around every Bastard ever forged, including yours (stories, games, media, and future licensing rewards), the underlying intellectual property in the game, the Bastards, their names, portraits, lore, and the Bastardverse setting remains the property of OURANIA K.A. - LLC. Formally, what you hold is a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and display your Bastard within the service, for personal, non-commercial enjoyment. Practically, it means your Bastard can end up in a story someday, and the record of your ownership travels with it.
To be explicit: no commercial use of any Bastard asset (names, portraits, BINs, lore, or any part of the Bastardverse) is permitted without our prior written permission. This is a contractual promise you make by using the service, and it applies regardless of the copyright status of any individual asset. Your license also does not permit you to register copyright or trademark in a Bastard or to claim it as your own original authorship.
5. No cash value, no cash-out, no secondary market
Bastards and credits have no cash or monetary value. They cannot be redeemed, cashed out, or exchanged for money or anything of value, and they cannot be sold, traded, or transferred on any secondary market. Any purported sale or transfer is void and may result in termination. You are buying the entertainment of the forge and the collectible inside the game, not an asset. Nothing here is a wager or an investment.
6. The odds, published
Each forge produces a random result. The published per-forge rarity odds are: Common 60%, Uncommon 28%, Rare 11.13%, Legendary 0.87%. Separately, an anomaly engine fires 13 times in 10,000 forges (0.13%) and can produce anomaly Bastards the census does not officially acknowledge. Results are random and independent; past results do not change future odds; no specific outcome is guaranteed. You may pull the same rarity repeatedly, but never a duplicate Bastard.
7. Purchases, credits, and refunds
Forges cost one US dollar each, or less when bought in multi-forge credit bundles at the prices shown at checkout; forges can also be paid with promo credits. Payments run exclusively through Stripe hosted checkout (such as cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay); your card number never touches our servers. We do not accept cryptocurrency. Because a forge delivers a unique, instant generation that cannot be un-made, sales are formally final once your Bastard exists, and bundle purchases are final once the credits land on your account. That said: we care that you are happy. If something went wrong, or you are simply not satisfied, contact us and we will make it right, including refunds at our discretion, applied generously. If a paid forge fails to deliver a Bastard at all, we will always redo it or refund it. Credits have no cash value and cannot be transferred or redeemed for money.
8. Guest forges and The Pit
A Bastard forged without an account must be claimed within 72 hours. Unclaimed Bastards are released back into the game ("cast into The Pit") and may become available to others; once released, you have no further rights to them. This is stated at forge time; the countdown is part of the game.
9. Accounts, handles, and conduct
You are responsible for your account and everything done under it. Public handles are visible to others, and avatars may be; do not choose a handle or upload an avatar that is unlawful, infringing, obscene, hateful, harassing, or that impersonates someone. We may remove or reset any handle or avatar that breaks these rules or that we reasonably determine is inappropriate.
You also agree not to: attempt to resell, cash out, or build a secondary market for Bastards; use scripts, bots, or automation to forge or scrape; reverse engineer or attempt to manipulate the generation system, the odds, or the database; upload unlawful or harmful content; harass other collectors; or use the service for any unlawful purpose. We may suspend or terminate accounts that break these rules; terminated accounts forfeit their credits and their Bastard licenses without compensation.
You agree to cover our costs (including reasonable legal fees) for claims that arise from your conduct on the service, for example a handle or submission that infringes someone else's rights.
10. User content
You keep whatever rights you hold in content you upload (like an avatar), and you promise you have the right to upload it. You grant OURANIA K.A. - LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, and use uploaded content and your handle to operate and promote the service. You can remove uploaded content; residual copies may persist briefly in backups. Community lore contributions, if that program opens, may become canon; contributors are credited, and the Bastardverse intellectual property remains the property of OURANIA K.A. - LLC.
11. Intellectual property, honestly
The Bastardverse (all lore, narrative, the fictional universe, the character classes, the rarity architecture, the BIN serial system, the generation-system design, the software, the site design, and the "Bot Bastards" and "Own the Flame" names and logos) is owned by OURANIA K.A. - LLC and protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other laws. The Registry and our curated arrangement of every Bastard are protected as a compilation to the extent the law provides. Individual portraits, names, and dialogue are generated with AI tools inside our authored system; as between you and us, we own or control all rights that exist in them and license them to you under Section 4. We do not represent that every individual AI-generated element is independently protected by copyright; your promises in these terms apply regardless.
12. Merchandise and licensing
We may offer print-on-demand or other merchandise featuring Bastards. Where merchandise features a Bastard licensed to another collector, we may reward that collector under a published rewards program. Merch and rewards, when they launch, will carry their own terms; nothing obligates us to launch or maintain them, and they confer no cash value. Making your own commercial merchandise from Bastards or Bastardverse IP requires our written permission.
13. The game changes
Bot Bastards ships updates constantly. Mechanics, odds, features, and lore evolve. We will never remove a Bastard you hold a license to (outside Section 9 enforcement), but everything around it may change as the universe grows.
14. The legal essentials
The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the extent permitted by law; we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising from the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim or one hundred US dollars, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages. Some places do not allow certain limits, so some may not apply to you.
These terms are governed by Ohio law. The service is operated from the United States and directed to US residents; we make no representations of compliance with non-US regimes. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small claims court where jurisdiction and venue are proper. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These terms plus the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement about the service. Sections about the license, conduct, intellectual property, and liability survive termination.
15. Contact
Questions, problems, refunds, permissions: botbastards.com/contact or info@botbastards.com. A human reads every message.
Mail: OURANIA K.A. - LLC, PO Box 121, London, OH 43140.