OC Tournaments are a competition where people have their OCs fight each other, and whichever character makes it to the end is the winner. You'd be assigned a foe, then construct the battle somehow (usually people make comics depicting it, but there's no reason you can't enter a written work or animation or puppet show or something) while your opponent does the same. The judges decide which version of the battle is better, and that person moves on to the next round. We could also just do little one-off battles if people wanted, where the characters only fight each other without any kind of overarching tournament storyline. That could also be fun. Anyway, are people interested in this?
I wasn't very secure in my arting back when these were really all the rage on dA, and I always missed not even trying. I'd be down for at least giving it a shot (I know there was a comic art website once that operated on the one-off battle premise, but I can't remember the name for the life of me. It had a really intimidating points system though.)
I'm not sure how we'd handle the judging process, yet, but I'm sure people would be willing to judge written entries fairly
*is writer* *is totally on board for this cheap excuse to make someone draw an OC of mine* ... hey, do artists get the same urge to see stories about their OCs?
Sometimes! I roleplay enough that I can usually write my own, but there are times where I wanna let someone else take the reins and run away with it. It's interesting seeing how writers interpret visual cues and the bits and pieces we let slip, just like it's interesting seeing which descriptions artists lend more weight to when doing fanart. Also, written fight scenes are rad and I always like seeing those.
I don't really feel like I'd be comfortable participating rn, but I'd really like to read/see everyone elses.
This is enough interest that I'm cool with moving forward. I'm thinking something like this for the character sheet template: I want to keep it simple and straightforward -- any additional info someone wants to include can always be added to the post. Does anyone have any suggestions for improvement on it? People who can't or don't want to draw their character for their sheet can ask someone else to do it for them -- I'm willing, if need be. Idea for general fighting format: People can challenge each other to one-on-one fights, or ask to be entered into a kind of randomised draw (so that introverted, anxious, or shy people who don't want to directly challenge someone can still participate). Those people draw/write/etc their character winning a fight against their opponent's character, and post it in the thread. Either we have a panel of impartial judges declare a winner (possibly with actual constructive critiques outlining their decisions) (this would be difficult given the few people who have so far expressed interest, it will be more feasible if we get more people participating) make a poll and have people vote on which entry is the winner Same general plan for any tournaments that get made, except that we'd do it multiple times. Any feedback on that?
Definitely weapons and tools. And I guess that would cover any armor or other useful clothing that you can't see in the picture. Should we have a space for fighting style, or something like that?
Actually I'm only tentatively available for participating rn because I have like zero time left at my disposal
Intensely interested. I loved reading these back when they were in vogue. I can't draw worth a damn, but I can string sentences together sometimes.
I like the idea of the randomized draws and polls. What kind of time frame are we looking at for each round? I know a tournament would have to be more structured, but do we want one-on-ones to be more of "both people work out a deadline that won't be stressful" or do we want to set a hard upper limit of like, three months?
I think fighting style could probably go in the bio? Or maybe abilities, since it's kind of a skill We can let the participants decide on a timeframe for one-on-one battles
Feel free to enter a character and only join battles when you do have time for it, by the way! We won't have any obligatory quotas to keep participating or anything
I'm not planning on vetoing anyone's character entries (although might make some suggestions on the off-chance it's needed), but do people suppose there should be a limit on how many characters you can enter? Do people plan on wanting to enter more than, say, three characters at once?
