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Weird idea: Create open source characters with stock relationships and plot lines that anyone can use and expand on. Community owned IP, that anyone can develop and treat like their own. It'd be neat to see a community like, for instance, Star Wars fandom, where the universe is treated like stock material that anyone and everyone can modify to their own needs, but based around designs and ideas that you can use for free. 6 comments
@cjrando Like Cthulhu. (Or Tolkien.) But YouTuber Austin McConnell is doing that with public domain superheroes. He's calling it his own cinematic universe, even if it's not all actually cinematic (I think the big thing is an upcoming book, but he's using "cinematic universe" as a short-hand term to explain what he's doing.) Interesting stuff. No idea how it's going to go, but several fun videos have come from him putting the idea together in plain sight, though. @Jeffool I've followed around the edges of the project... I follow him on YouTube, but I don't think I've watched any of the pieces on this particular thing. It's interesting. @cjrando And not to suggest it's exactly what you're talking about, but just thinking of things vaguely related, and that I too find interesting. But yeah, it's a good thought. And thinking of it, I wonder if horror elements are easier to create stories around? Cthulhu, Backrooms, Slenderman, SCP, etc.  |
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Just something that occurred to me while listening to someone talk about Commedia dell'arte, where performers adopted a set of stock characters that they could perform anywhere.