Terms of Service

Hermes Games is a Discord bot that runs tournament brackets and dice duels. Adding it to a server, or using it in one, means accepting what is below.

Last updated: 23 August 2026.

No money, anywhere

Death Roll duels can carry a wager, and the bot keeps a profit-and-loss score per player per server. These are notional numbers in a database. They are not currency, credits, tokens or anything of value:

• Nothing can be bought, sold, deposited, withdrawn or cashed out.
• No real money, cryptocurrency or item of value passes through the bot.
• A score has no meaning outside the server it was earned in, and the bot never converts one into anything.
• Everyone starts at zero and can go negative without consequence.

If people in a server choose to attach something of their own to a result — an entry fee, a prize, a bet between themselves — that is entirely between them. The bot records the words an organizer typed into the "entry fee" and "prize" fields as text and does arithmetic on neither. It handles no payments, holds no stakes, and takes no part in whatever the words mean.

Using it

• Follow Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Those come first; nothing here overrides them.
• Be old enough to use Discord — 13, or older where local law requires.
• Do not use the bot to harass anyone, to run anything illegal in your jurisdiction, or to gamble with real money.
• Do not attempt to break, flood, or extract data from the bot, and do not automate it to a degree that degrades it for others.

Who runs your server's games

Tournament settings, results and organizer actions are controlled by the people you give the organizer role to, and by whoever created each tournament. The bot enforces the rules described on this site; it does not arbitrate disputes between players. An organizer can settle a match by hand, undo one, remove entries, or substitute a player, and every one of those actions is recorded in an audit log.

Access

Servers are approved individually by the operator before the bot responds. Access may be declined or withdrawn — for abuse, for breaking Discord's rules, or because the bot is not intended for that use. If access is withdrawn, the bot stops responding and leaves; see the Privacy Policy for what happens to the records.

Provided as-is

Hermes Games is run by an individual, free of charge, with no company behind it and no guarantee of uptime, correctness or continuity. It may be unavailable, may lose a match card to a Discord outage, and may one day stop. It is offered without warranty of any kind, and the operator is not liable for any loss arising from its use — including a tournament that has to be re-run, a result that has to be settled by hand, or a prize somebody was expecting.

Nothing here limits rights you have under law that cannot be limited.

Randomness

Rolls and draws come from the operating system's cryptographic random source. They are unpredictable, and neither the operator nor any player can influence a specific outcome. They are not, today, independently verifiable after the fact — a signed, checkable source is planned but not shipped, and this page will say so when it is.

Changes

These terms may change as the bot does. The date at the top says when they last did. Continuing to use the bot after a change means accepting it; if you would rather not, remove the bot from your server.

Contact

Press the Info button on any of the bot's cards. It names the operator and how to reach them — for a stuck game, a bug, a data request, or a question about any of this.