Session Zero

Community guidelines

The table rules, and our acceptable use policy · last updated October 16, 2026

Every good campaign starts with a session zero: the conversation where the table agrees on what kind of game everyone wants to play. This is ours. These rules exist so that everyone at this table (queer folks, poly folks, monogamous folks, forever-DMs, first-timers) can show up as themselves and be treated well.

Be who your sheet says you are

Your photos must be of you, recent enough to be recognized. Your age must be real. Your intentions (what you're looking for, your relationship structure, whether you have partners) belong on your profile, not saved as a surprise for later. Roleplay belongs at the game table; your dating profile is the one place we ask you to play yourself.

No impersonation

Do not pretend to be someone you are not. Impersonation is prohibited on Session Zero and is grounds for permanent removal. That means no profile claiming to be another real person, whether a public figure, a person you know, or someone whose photographs you found; no using another person's name, images, or identity as your own; and no invented persona built to deceive the people you talk to. Catfishing is impersonation, and so is borrowing a stranger's face.

Posing as Session Zero, as our staff, or as anyone acting on our behalf is also prohibited. We will never ask you for your password, and we will never ask you to pay anyone directly.

If a profile is pretending to be you, or is using your photographs, you do not need an account to do something about it. Use report a profile and a person will review it.

Nothing illegal

Do not use Session Zero for anything illegal. You may not use the service to commit, attempt, plan, promote, arrange, or coordinate any act that is illegal under the federal, state, or local law that applies to you. That includes but is not limited to the sale or supply of controlled substances, trafficking of any kind, the sale of weapons, fraud and financial crime, stalking and harassment that breaks the law, and the sharing of content that is illegal to possess or distribute.

Accounts used this way are removed permanently without warning, and we report to law enforcement where the law requires it or where someone is in danger. The short list below sets out the worst of these explicitly.

Consent is the whole game

Nobody owes you a match, a reply, a date, or an explanation. "No" and silence both mean no. Repeated unwanted contact, guilt-tripping, and pressure of any kind are the fastest way out of the tavern. This applies doubly to the ENM and poly community here: honest non-monogamy is built on enthusiastic consent from everyone involved, including partners who aren't on the app.

No cruelty

Zero tolerance for harassment, threats, hate speech, or degrading anyone for their race, gender identity, orientation, body, disability, relationship structure, or anything else about who they are. Judging someone's kink, identity, or way of loving, when it's consensual and between adults, is not a debate topic here. Don't yuck someone's yes.

Adults only, everywhere, always

You must be 18 or older to be here. Any sexual content involving minors, any attempt to contact minors, and any misrepresentation of age results in an immediate permanent ban and, where appropriate, a report to law enforcement. No exceptions, no appeals.

Never, under any circumstances

Everything above is a rule. This is the short list of things that end an account the moment we find them, with no warning and no appeal, and that we report to law enforcement where the law requires it. These apply whether it happens on a profile, in chat, on the community board, or anywhere Session Zero is used to arrange it.

• Anything sexual involving a minor. Content, solicitation, or contact. We report child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and to law enforcement.
• Sexual violence or coercion. Committing it, threatening it, arranging it, or encouraging it.
• Intimate images shared without consent. Photos or recordings of anyone who did not agree to them being shared, including of a former partner.
• Human trafficking or sex trafficking. Recruiting, advertising, arranging, or profiting from it in any form.
• Buying or selling sex. Session Zero is not a marketplace for commercial sexual services.
• Defrauding other members. Romance scams, fake identities used to extract money, crypto or investment pitches, or any attempt to take money from someone here under false pretences.
• Illegal acts. Using Session Zero to commit a crime, or to plan, promote, arrange, or coordinate one.
• Impersonation for gain. Posing as a real person, as us, or as a persona built to deceive, in order to take money, images, or information from someone.
• Aiding, abetting, or encouraging any of the above. Helping it happen, arranging it, soliciting it, inciting it, or coaching someone through it is treated the same as doing it.

No sexual content

Sexual content is prohibited everywhere on Session Zero, consensual or not. That covers nudity, sexually explicit or suggestive images, and sexually explicit text, descriptions, or solicitation. It applies to profile photographs, profile text, quest answers, private messages, and the community board alike.

This is not a judgement about what adults do. It is a line about what this service is for. Session Zero exists to help you meet someone and then go and have a life with them somewhere that is not here. Sexual content on the platform is prohibited whether or not everyone involved wants it, whether or not you have been talking for weeks, and whether or not you have already met. Take it somewhere else, or better, take it offline.

Sending sexual content to someone who did not ask for it is worse, not merely against the rules, and we treat it that way. See the short list below for the things that end an account outright.

No aiding or encouraging abuse

Helping someone else break these rules is breaking them yourself. Aiding, abetting, encouraging, facilitating, soliciting, or inciting any abuse or any conduct prohibited here is prohibited, and is actioned exactly as if you had done the thing yourself.

That includes encouraging another person to harm themselves or anyone else, egging on harassment or piling onto it, coaching someone on how to evade our moderation or return after a ban, recruiting for or advertising prohibited activity, and sharing content that celebrates, endorses, or provides instructions for it.

No hustles

No scams, no soliciting money, no advertising, no promoting your OnlyFans, no crypto evangelism, no recruiting for anything but your D&D party. Accounts that exist to sell something get removed.

Privacy is sacred

Don't share other members' photos, messages, or personal details outside the app. No doxxing, no screenshots posted for laughs. If someone's profile made you smile, tell them, not your group chat.

The game board is for games

The community board (Find a Game) is for organizing actual tabletop sessions. It is not a second feed for flirting. Treat applicants to your game like players, not prospects. People joining your one-shot did not swipe right on you.

Reports, and what happens after

Every profile and conversation has a report option. Reports are confidential. The person you report is never told who reported them. A human reviews reports and can issue warnings, remove content, suspend, or permanently ban accounts. We also retain records connected to safety issues, as described in our privacy policy.

If your account was actioned and you believe we got it wrong, contact support@sessionzero.love and tell us what happened. A person will look at it again.

You do not need an account to report a profile. If someone has used your photographs, built a profile pretending to be you, or shared intimate images of you without your consent, use report a profile. It goes to the front of the same queue and you will never be asked to join a dating app to get something about you taken down.

Meet safely

We don't run background checks on members. When you take a connection into the real world: meet in public first, tell someone where you're going, arrange your own transportation, and trust your instincts over your politeness. If someone on the app made you feel unsafe, report them. You'll likely be protecting the next person too.

Thanks for helping us keep this a table worth sitting at. Now go make your saving throw against loneliness.