Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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D&D players are creative, and enjoy making worlds as well as sharing stories about their adventures. DND Beyond should offer a forum for such stories. There should tags to indicate what campaign setting the story takes place in, with Homebrew being an option.
Would anyone else be interested in such a forum?
What would you like such a forum to offer?
Here is the closest thing to what you are looking for: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/story-lore
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I don't expect legal would be on board with that. Too many headaches around the possibility of some fanfiction writer posting something that coincidentally bears a superficial similarity to an ongoing project.
I see NO ways this could be abused.
NO WAYS AT ALL.
Besides being a window into a lot of players' minds regarding why they do & say what they do & say....people can & will cross the lines while trying to rules lawyer their way into how NSFW & revenge fiction, among other things, aren't breaking the rules of the site.
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FanFiction is a direct copyright violation.
Wotc gives away the core rules and you can make homebrew versions of that and publish it.
But the worlds and campaigns in dnd are all pretty much proprietary, copyright, all rights reserved. The right to copy, derive, and distribute are all protected by copyright. fan fiction is a derivative. Presenting that derivative in an online forum is a distribution of that work. Both violate copyright protections.
Folks post about their in- game stories in General all the time as well. Typically not in prose, as fanfiction might be, but it is a common place to “share stories” as noted in the OP.
I expect Adohand’s Kitchen might be open to a similar thread given the wide range of topics covered there, several of which are already fan fiction (as a note, copyright law and fanfiction is much more complex than the layperson’s post above might suggest). Though the nature of that forum, which skews both very young and very into “spam as legitimate content” might be off putting if someone wanted more in depth storytelling and discussion.
"which are already fan fiction (as a note, copyright law and fanfiction is much more complex than the layperson’s post above might suggest)."
It is exactly that simple. The only thing preventing enforcement of copyright law against fanfiction is that since it is based on civil rather than criminal law, the copyright holder usually has to sue to force fanfiction be taken down and sue for damages. Sometimes the copyright holders dont want to do that.
However even authors who allow fanfiction to be created and distributed generally want it done in an area where the author wont see it. Because if the author sees any fanfiction, and later the author creates a work that resembles the fanfiction, the fan who created the fanfiction could sue the author. Which would really suck for the author.
Imagine someone writes fanfiction about Strahd and a year later wotc creates new content about strahd that looks a little familiar to the fanfiction. The fan could sue to prevent thr new content from being published.