More poll questions

[chacusha]

Hey everyone, two more things we'd like community input on:

1) moogle_workshop has a rule that fic featuring original characters will not be given points. But the Final Fantasy MMOs, FFXI and FFXIV, were brought up, and we weren't sure if fic set in the world of those games but featuring player characters rather than the canon NPCs would fall under the original

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[sai_salamander]

I said yes to giving the fics points, cos I still think writing something in the world counts! (Then again, I could be incredibly biased cos I'm writing comedians-dumped-in-Spira fic right now, but hey!)

I also think, what about a fic that is more place-centric than character-centric? I've wanted to write something about the Necrohol of Nabudis for soooo long now - the characters who would have lived there are all long dead, so they would technically count as OCs. And then what about a fic about a reaaaalllly minor character (some guy who's mentioned once in the Bestiary in FFXII or something), where the information about them just isn't there but they're still a character in an FF.

Bleh, anyway, I'll stop rambling and just say: YAY MUNCHKIN. GIMME.

[chacusha]

Argh so many grey areas!

There are some factors to consider here:
- Length and purpose of fic. If the fic is a short piece meant to flesh out the history of a place like the Necrohol, that would be more likely to count for points than an epic length fanfiction focused on OCs who lived there, with a storyline that revolves entirely around them.
- Ties to canon. If there are many references to canon characters, events, explaining the why behind certain things in the game world, etc. that would be more likely to count for points than something that starts from scratch with a character people aren't likely to know about.

Sorry this isn't very helpful. :/ I can just see both of those types of fics going anywhere between "OCs that have a tie to canon / OCs placed in an existing world" to "an expansion of the canon itself".

[sunflower_mynah]

Place-centric should be fine/more than fine (to me at least), because with a location you don't have to worry about its ties to canon - or rather, lack thereof, since that's the issue here.

The second one, with the really minor character, is admittedly a far, far bigger grey area because as chacusha said, both could go anywhere within the spectrum, but I think the second one is a little more problematic.

[lightofeilia]

I have it all planned out :D

I just hope it'll be good :X

[sunflower_mynah]

I have to say that a Munchkin-esque game sounds awesome to me, in no small part because I play it (although it's hell on earth to finish if you really get into the sabotage when you're in a group of 8. Hooray for level 200+ Kalis.)

[lightofeilia]

I'll give more details if we actually play the game since I'm running it, but it won't focus on sabotaging... Sorry :X

[sunflower_mynah]

No, don't apologise! I can't imagine this being played with sabotage D: and tbh I will be glad of a no-sabotage game for once. xD