Survey: Should Fakemon Be Shared?

[Venia Silente]

I mean, It IS our work and we DO have our rights, and so we should have a choice between whether or not we want others to use them.

I don't think it will be that hard to have some designers sitting arround a table & work together on some well ballanced fanmade pokémon that everyone is going to use. It would also help ballancing them out. Their are so many fake pokémon & fanmade design that just doesn't look good, have unballanced stats, have a poor ability or just have bad moves overal.

These are excellent points I think. In the end, no matter how good a Fakémon is, it is very likely you wouldn't be able to use them in their vanilla form in your own content even if you were allowed to; you'd have to adapt their moveset, their stats or stuff like that to account for changes in mechanics, power creep or just general style. Having a central board that can record Fakémon and their licensing, make suggestions or archive / document variants of a Fakémon would be considerable effort, but quite worth the time if enough people are submitting Fakémon because it also becomes a central query point to check if a work is using a Fakémon in a license-abiding manner.

 

[PlanetSR388]

Why don't we just make a fakemon dex? One where the community can take from freely. Where artist can donate to. Maybe even have everyone help balance the pokemon out. Could be a cool idea.

 

[CoreBear]

I agree. If we were to open a fakemon resource, it would solve a lot of problems. you choose whether or not to put it there, and once it is, anyone can use it. Simple enough. I mean, I'd certainly add my own stuff.