How This Works (How-to, Rules, Q&A)

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Welcome to the challenges community for Rainbow Fiction! This is where you learn about how Rainbow Fiction works, while rainbowfic is where you post your work and rainbowlounge is where discussions, along with games and other things, are based. The top post in Rainbow Fiction, right here, is for introductions; please stop by there. We'd like to get to know you.

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That's everything you need to know! Pick a color or five, join the communities, and start writing.

Updated: September 20, 2024 (spelling and grammar)

Mosaic and Gesso Examples

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Mosaics and Gessos allow the use of a media source, but since this isn't a fanfiction community that use is limited. Furthermore, there's a long tradition of turning one's role-playing game into stories, and many tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) draw from a variety of sources (see 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons' famous Appendix N, as well as the inspiration page in many sourcebooks)

Here are some examples of what is and is not acceptable for crossovers (Mosaic) and borrowings (Gesso). If the piece is an alternate universe (AU) to your canon, the limits are a little looser. For examples, I'm going to use Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) and the Gothic horror campaign The Curse of Strahd, Star Wars, Star Trek: The Original Series. It's safe to assume that examples for crossovers can be extrapolated for borrowings and vice-versa.
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In short, trademarked names or words (Jedi, Sith, Waterdeep, Klingons, Vulcan, etc), should have little influence on the current plot or be an AU. But if just changing the names would make it not commonly recognized, it's okay.