Nominations Queries 3

[modzilla]

Thanks to everyone who's chipped in to nominations and nominations queries so far. Nominations end at 11:59pm EDT on July 27. Countdown! I will probably not catch up on approving until a bit after nominations close.

A few more queries:

Batman - All Media Types
Alfred Pennyworth
Bruce Wayne
Harleen Quinzel
Harvey Bullock
Jim Gordon

We have several specific Batman canons. Would any of them suit? Alternately, what did you have in mind?

Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
Group: Original Adventurer/Dungeon Monsters (D&D)
Group: Original Adventuring Party (D&D)
Group: Original Cambion/Original Human(s) (D&D)
Group: Original Elf/Original Orc (D&D)
Group: Original Novice Adventurer/Original Established Adventuring Party (D&D)

This seems really broad to me (especially the fandom title) - could you help me know what you have in mind? Is it essentially 'original work, but with overt D&D flavor'?

Redwall Series - Brian Jacques
Original Character(s) (Redwall)

Please narrow this down or choose the Worldbuilding tag.

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Group: Mu Qingfang/Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)
Group: Liu Qingge/Shen Qingqiu & Monstrous Flora and Fauna (SVSSS)

For these tags, could the nominator please clarify which Shen Qingqiu is meant? (as per this comment)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

D&D nominator here! I was mostly imagining fic set in the Forgotten Realms around the most recent game centuries, but my thinking was that I didn't want to lock out someone who really wanted to request or write a different setting or lump in the Forgotten Realms books. I guess I was picturing fic set in or around canonical cities and canonical historical events with the option for D&D-specific monsters, classes, abilities, and lore. I was also thinking about the potential for interactive fic that employed the game mechanics.

If the fandom's too broad, would something like "Forgotten Realms (D&D)" be better, or maybe splitting the nominations between "D&D 5e Players Handbook" and "D&D 5e Monster Manual"? I'd also be happy to make the characters more specific like "Original Vilhon Reach Adventuring Party".

[(Anonymous)]

fwiw as a potential D&D writer, I read the nominations the way you're describing them -- original player-type characters having adventures in a published D&D setting, with their abilities and histories determined by the bounds of the canon sourcebooks.

If you want to split it up, I'd vote for splitting by setting rather than by mechanics sourcebook -- I wouldn't want to write a party adventuring and fighting stuff using only the Players' Handbook and not the Monster Manual, for instance!

[modzilla]

Forgotten Realms sounds great to me. You could mention you're open to other settings but I think having a starting point helps.

[(Anonymous)]

Done!

[(Anonymous)]

I just nominated Eberron (a different published D&D setting) and some character tags mostly just ripped off from the FR nominating nonny, but I also nommed "any requested original works tag that fits this setting". That might be something that's better expressed in a letter than with a tag, so no hard feelings if you nix it. But if you don't nix it, it might be something the FR nominating nonny would want to consider as well.

[modzilla]

I think that might work better as a prompt than a tag? Especially since people can add tags during sign-ups, including to Original Works. Thanks for giving me a heads-up about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally forgot noms would continue during signups! Anyway, that makes sense. Thanks for getting back to me.