To Write Dominion "Derived Fiction" and not Fanfiction

theenemy · #1 October 14th, 2009, 01:26 PM

I don't understand this "there are no real characters in Dom3" argument. You just make up your own characters. Dom3 is always more enjoyable when you make up your own little stories about charaters and battles and stuff.
Jeebus.... how difficult can it really be?

Omnirizon · #2 October 14th, 2009, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by theenemy

I don't understand this "there are no real characters in Dom3" argument. You just make up your own characters. Dom3 is always more enjoyable when you make up your own little stories about charaters and battles and stuff.
Jeebus.... how difficult can it really be?

well, I think the 'characters' in Dom 3 are the nations. it doesn't have people, but it has, for example, a byzantine-like nation with Hydras. That's a personality. I guess in that sense it does have unique personalities

Arralen · #3 October 14th, 2009, 02:26 PM

Maybe there's some missunderstanding 'bout the "fan"- part of the fiction.

Yes, those K/S stories are centered on those two characters, which the authors are pretending to be fans of. Thereby ignoring much of the rest of their universe, for obvious reasons ...

Yet, "fanfiction" settled in the Dominions World can of course be centered on singular heros, pretenders or even persons not even depicted in the game - but to make it stand out from Harry Potter, one could not ignore the rest of the whole world as laid out in the game: You're most likely a fan of the Dominions game, not of the Red Dragon pretender, aren't you?

So, before someone starts writing (additional) stories, an at least somewhat coherent storyline would have to be "extracted" from the in-game text.

That said ... I started a Dominions P&P RPG just some days ago ... and o.c. I have just started thinking 'bout getting all the facts together ...

One of those thoughts was: "Ask Kristoffer, if he has at least some outline of the history of the Dominions World scribbled down somewhere!!!"

... maybe I should send him an email soon, before I bore my players to death because I don't have an idea whats going on ...