D20 Fic-Off!

An annual event for D20 writers! Next event: March 2026!

[d20ficoff]

Check out the D20 FIC-OFF! community on Discord - hang out with 6 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

The FIC-OFF server is now live! Join the event server and get ready for the event to start :)

[d20ficoff]

D20 FIC-OFF 2026 HAS BEGUN!

It's game night at Castle Candy and it's up to you to decide which of the twin princesses reigns supreme! If you're interested in taking part, join our event server!

[d20ficoff]

The 2026 D20 FIC-OFF starts on March 1!

The next D20 Fic-Off is just a month away! If you were thinking about joining us but haven't already, hop into the Discord to take part :) As always, this year's theme and teams will be revealed a week before the event starts; I'm sure you don't want to miss that!

Check out the D20 FIC-OFF! community on Discord - hang out with 124 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

a quick FAQ about D20 Fic-Off:

q: What is Fic-Off? Is it a standard fandom event?

a: Fic-Off is a [vaguely] annual month-long event where D20 fic writers align themselves with a team and write fics based on pre-determined prompts! There is every chance in the world there's a similar popular fandom event like Fic-Off, but it wasn't based on any preexisting guidelines in particular.

q: Teams?

a: Teams! We've had teams Cassandra vs. Ankarna and Populi + Phantasma in past events. Our teams are always connected to our overarching event theme. If you don't have a personal bias towards one team or the other, you can also tell that to the mod team and we'll assign you a team based on how balanced the numbers are looking.

q: How do I participate?

a: Everything is hosted on the Discord server, from team channels to submission forms for your fics. You will have to join in order to be recognized as a participant of the event.

q: By joining, do I have to post a fic? If I don't finish one in time, will I be kicked from the event?

a: Nope! People who want to join the server as readers are more than welcome to, and if you planned to write something for a team and didn't get around to posting it before the end of the event, we'll all cheer for you when it does go live.

q: What kind of fics did people submit last time?

a: The collection of last year's fics can be found at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/d25ficoff

q: I have another question!

a: Feel free to join the server and drop it in our ask-a-mod channel OR consult this overview document by one of our non-mod participants!

[chromathesia]

ESSAYZINE application form + info!

i've been ideating about a zine specifically for academic writing about d20 for a little bit, so now it's time to make it :) all of the info you might want about this project can be found in the attached google doc, and you can apply via gform! feel free to drop an ask if you have any additional questions.

[ESSAYZINE] Info Doc

about: It’s no secret that Dimension 20 attracts all variety of nerd to its fandom, many of whom take it far too seriously. The ESSAYZINE (r

[ESSAYZINE] Application Form

You're here because you like writing essays and you like D20! Nerd.

[a-guy-named-e]

Chapters: 3/6

Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Adaine Abernant & Aelwyn Abernant, Aelwyn Abernant & Ragh Barkrock, Aelwyn Abernant & Sandralynn Faeth, Aelwyn Abernant & Jawbone O'Shaughnessey, Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Characters: Aelwyn Abernant, Adaine Abernant, Ragh Barkrock, Sandralynn Faeth, Jawbone O'Shaughnessey, Kristen Applebees (background), Figueroth Faeth (background)

Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Siblings, Parent-Child Relationship, physical affection, Aelwyn Abernant-centric, Aelwyn Abernant Needs A Hug, Panic Attacks, Friendship, Good Friend Ragh Barkrock, Hurt/Comfort, Self-Worth Issues, Self-Hatred, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Touch-Starved, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending

Summary:

it’s been a long road, losing all i’ve owned / you don’t know what you’ve got until you’re gone / and it’s a nasty habit, spending all you have / but if you’re doing all the leaving, then it’s never your love lost / if you leave before the start, then there was never love at all” - the oh hellos, in memoriam

It’s fine, really, that people avoid Aelwyn. It’s frankly more than she deserves, a roof over her head and people around and laughter and warm smiles, so it’s not an issue that it’s never directed at her. Honestly, it’s a good thing. After all, if she were meant to receive affection, meant to get that same warmth, that same love, then why would it hurt? Why would the sensation buzz like electricity under her skin, make her chest tight and her breathing shallow, strip away what little energy she has left?

or: five times aelwyn abernant received physical affection from her new family and one time she learned to ask for it

[aitcm 2025 day 10 - touch starved]

written for @d20ficoff

[unsleepingtales]

I'm not a fighter, I haven't been for a long time

[dimension20, Fantasy High post-canon, Gorgug-centric, 2k, recursive fic, grief exploration]

Gorgug’s mostly successful in not focusing on the small things. His entire life has been a struggle between small and large, and the proportions of everything. How many small chairs can fit in a room if one large bed is already there, how much milk he should put in Fig’s tea depending on the size of the mug. Gorgug needed to learn how to be good at fractions and proportions when he was young, and it didn’t come naturally, but he figured it out. In the past six years though, Gorgug has never been able to figure out the scale of grief. It feels like it takes up more than its share. OR: Gorgug has more emotions than he wants to about his father's favorite tie

Written and posted during @d20ficoff

Read here on Ao3

[a-guy-named-e]

Chapters: 1/?

Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Baron & Riz Gukgak, Adaine Abernant & Riz Gukgak, Riz Gukgak & Fabian Aramais Seacaster, The Bad Kids & Riz Gukgak, Adaine Abernant/Oisin Hakinvar, Background Ayda Aguefort/Figueroth Faeth, Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Characters: Riz Gukgak, Baron (Dimension 20), Adaine Abernant, Fabian Aramais Seacaster, Sklonda Gukgak, Kristen Applebees, Figueroth Faeth, Gorgug Thistlespring, Ayda Aguefort, Background & Cameo Characters

Additional Tags: Aromantic Asexual Riz Gukgak, Riz Gukgak-centric, Coming Out, Friendship, Complicated Relationships, Anxiety, Post-Canon, Post-Campaign 01 Season 03: Fantasy High Junior Year (Dimension 20), Demiromantic Adaine Abernant, Developing Relationship, Platonic Relationships, Enemies to Friends, Enemies to Business partners, Explorations of Aroace Identity, Trauma, Mother-Son Relationship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Self-Worth Issues, Tags May Change

Summary:

“but i ignore things, and i move sideways / until i forget what i felt in the first place / at the end of the day i know there are worse ways / to stay alive” - noah kahan, growing sideways

The dust settles after junior year and the Bad Kids return to business-as-usual—or at least as close to business-as-usual as you can get after saving the world three times over before even graduating high school. Still, things are comfortable. Fig and Ayda are off touring the world, Gorgug and Fabian are finding their footing in their new multiclasses, Kristen is more devoted to and focused on Cassandra than ever, even around her presidential duties, and Adaine is coming into her own as an incredibly prodigious diviner and Oracle.

And Riz is… okay. Sure, he’s still a workaholic, still stressed, still getting too little sleep and drinking too much coffee, but the weight of junior year is off his shoulders and he’s starting to get comfortable with the idea of life after high school, whatever it may be.

Until a familiar, emotionless face makes a grand reappearance and threatens to topple what little emotional stability he’s managed to build.

written for @d20ficoff

[serenescribe]

FOR THE FIC REQUESTS: tell us the tale of riz's first non-kristen kiss. it can be with anyone :)

ficlet frenzy note: i think people should be allowed to kiss their friends as an experiment if they want to. written during @d20ficoff

Gorgug twists his lips, but doesn’t protest. Instead, he strides over to his desk and pats it “You might wanna get some ground,” he tells Riz with an awkward half-shrug. “I, uh— it’ll be a little hard otherwise. I’m really tall, and like—”

“The size difference, yeah.” It makes sense. Ignoring his nerves, like raw electricity striking his veins, Riz scrambles up onto Gorgug’s desk. His tail presses tightly against him, stiff with nerves. His claws scrape against his pants, digging into the fabric covering his thighs.

Gorgug studies him closely. “Again,” he says, one more time, “you sure you wanna do this now? We don’t have to, Riz. You can wait if it’d make you feel better.”

“If I don’t do this now,” Riz says wryly, “I’m never gonna do this. Besides,” he adds, “I chose you for a reason. I want to do this — with you, at least. Because I trust you.”

[read the full thing on ao3!]

[gayandtrashy]

My first post for @d20ficoff is live! Check out the All-Solesian prophet!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65301376

[a-guy-named-e]

Chapters: 1/6

Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences 

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Adaine Abernant & Aelwyn Abernant, Aelwyn Abernant & Ragh Barkrock, Aelwyn Abernant & Sandralynn Faeth, Aelwyn Abernant & Jawbone O'Shaughnessey, Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Characters: Aelwyn Abernant, Adaine Abernant, Ragh Barkrock, Sandralynn Faeth, Jawbone O'Shaughnessey, Kristen Applebees (background), Figueroth Faeth (background)

Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Siblings, Parent-Child Relationship, physical affection, Aelwyn Abernant-centric, Aelwyn Abernant Needs A Hug, Panic Attacks, Friendship, Good Friend Ragh Barkrock, Hurt/Comfort, Self-Worth Issues, Self-Hatred, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Touch-Starved, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending

Summary:

it’s been a long road, losing all i’ve owned / you don’t know what you’ve got until you’re gone / and it’s a nasty habit, spending all you have / but if you’re doing all the leaving, then it’s never your love lost / if you leave before the start, then there was never love at all” - the oh hellos, in memoriam

It’s fine, really, that people avoid Aelwyn. It’s frankly more than she deserves, a roof over her head and people around and laughter and warm smiles, so it’s not an issue that it’s never directed at her. Honestly, it’s a good thing. After all, if she were meant to receive affection, meant to get that same warmth, that same love, then why would it hurt? Why would the sensation buzz like electricity under her skin, make her chest tight and her breathing shallow, strip away what little energy she has left?

or: five times aelwyn abernant received physical affection from her new family and one time she learned to ask for it

[aitcm 2025 day 10 - touch starved]

posted for @d20ficoff

[undeadsnorlax]

L I N K

First upload for this year’s @d20ficoff that somehow ended up being about the commentator characters of Murph and Ify from Titan Takedown lol

[unsleepingtales]

The Gay Gym, the Gay Gay Gym

[dimension20, Fantasy High Junior Year, Fig Faeth/Lucy Frostblade, 1k]

Lucy turns around and aims that smile at Fig, the one that looks like sunshine reflecting off untouched fresh snow. The smile that Fig knew from the moment she saw it, she would follow it to the ends of the Earth. Or at least, to cheer practice. OR: Fig and Lucy cheer together in middle school. They visit Aguefort's Gay Gym.

So the Fic-Off server kind of lost our collective minds last night and the result is that everybody agrees the Aguefort gym turns people gay. I ended up writing the quickest I ever have and this is the result. It's a little prequel to my fig/lucy-verse, I hope you enjoy! Thank you @d20ficoff for being the best writing community <3

Read here on Ao3

[serenescribe]

be my mirror, my sword and shield Fantasy High | 8.7k Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65239573

Summary:

After his rage had shown up, though? Gorgug was completely alone. Just him on his own at school without any friends. The only people he had for company were his parents. Maybe that was why he clung so hard to them — his soulmate, whoever they were. Gorgug didn’t know their identity, didn’t know a single thing about them save for the fact that they’ve been getting hurt all his life, but for each new injury that showed up, he found himself lingering on it. His mom’s words would echo in his head, a reminder, over and over: A soulmate is someone very important. The wounds and the pain, as much as they sucked, meant that Gorgug had somebody. His soulmate existed out there, somewhere in the world, and one day, they would hopefully meet. It was the kind of thing that kept him going through that middle school misery, lonely and friendless and grappling with an anger he couldn’t control or understand.

Gorgug Thistlespring, on the topic of loneliness, injuries, and the prevailing urge to protect his soulmate.

hi! hi!! i finally continued my soulmate au! this time with a focus on gorgug's pov :] this was really fun to write! i hope you enjoy! (written during @d20ficoff!)

[starstruckodysseys]

i’ll get through this better than you! —

completed, 1.8k words | written for @d20ficoff !!

welcome to the aguefort gym that makes you gay. ft @lucy-frostblade’s oc!!

“You’re insufferable,” Lilli says, rolling their eyes as they readjust the clipboard in their hands.

Ari grins, that stupid fucking grin Lilli can’t stand, the one that makes their canine hook over their bottom lip as their lips curl up. “And here you are, suffering me.”

Lilli sets their jaw, staring straight ahead as the two of them march down the hall, not quite side by side, because that might mean something, and Lilli can’t stand meaning things, not now.

(or: lilli and ari visit the gym. only normal things happen from there)

read here on ao3

[starstruckodysseys]

if the stars would all align (would you love me?) —

completed, 4.2k | reese’s oc insert jamboree! | written during @d20ficoff !!

Really, the moral of the story is that The Video World needs an HR department. Which, of course, begs the question of why a video store needs HR, and the answer to that, if you’d ask just about anyone, would be Lanie Woodward.

Lanie, personally, would like to argue her case and state for the record that she is not the problem and really, their issues lie in the hands of one Liv Skyler.

She’s not winning the case, but she does have the evidence.

read here on ao3

[allthecastlesonclouds]

Rat Rallied

Boggy spends much of his time in his terrarium. His terrarium is a very lovely space! Adaine’s decorated it quite nicely, with a sunlamp and with a little pond for him to sit in and vegetation for him to hide in. He doesn’t need the space– he’s a magic real frog, to be certain– but it is nice to have the care, and to bask in the simulated sunlight and the calm waters of the fake rock pool. Today, though, he has a visitor. - - - or, a frog, a rat, and a griffin steal a watch.

written during @d20ficoff; read the rest on ao3!

[serenescribe]

can i request 👉👈 bad kid of your choice figuring out that hallariel is not very kind to her kid, their best friend whom they love

ficlet frenzy note: mads i hope i did this justice o7 written during @d20ficoff

Slam!

“Dude, your mom fucking sucks!”

At her words, Fig watches Fabian whip his head up, his one grey eye immediately locking with her own. She knows what she must look like, standing in the doorway to his bedroom and practically trembling with rage as she clenches the jamb like a lifeline, but Fig can’t help it. She’s absolutely livid.

Her anger only builds as Fabian narrows his eye, his retort barbed with hostility. “No, she doesn’t,” he insists, getting to his feet. Except doing that just makes him stumble a little, unsteady as he rises, and Fig knows that if it were anyone else with worse dexterity than Fabian, they probably would’ve tumbled down into a heap.

[the rest is on ao3 here!]