#d20 ficoff

[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!

[allthecastlesonclouds]

d20 fic-off 2025 fic recs! (part two)

with part one here, i think i should move onto the second half of some of the many fics i enjoyed from this lovely event! these ones are significantly more heartwrenching, as a warning.

both of us half-damned. by @kipperlillycopperkettle (fantasy high, 2k words, archive locked)

truly, jace is such the interesting character huh. he can’t call himself a victim so clearly they weren’t! and he’s a good guy! (<-he’s not. he just will not let himself deal) anyway i think ivy should punch him. as a treat

The Beast of the Farhaven Woods by @hectic-hex (the seven/neverafter, ylfa&the seven, 5.4k words, archive locked)

this one is the stillness in woe of this post but for some reason putting this one with these felt right. ylfa and the seven oh my goodness. giving those girls a collective younger sister was such an amazing decision and i love how each of them tackled it differently. yelle&ylfa yippee <33

The Death and Afterlife of Kipperlily Copperkettle (and its AO3 link) by @scalematey (fantasy high, twine fic, ~23k words with all routes)

listen. this twine? the coolest thing i’ve ever seen. There’s so many routes and no matter the choice you make, the story just gets deeper and deeper and it is a rabbit hole of loops and tearing yourself apart and. ohhh everyone go play this right now

how are you so loved and so lonesome? by @serenescribe (fantasy high, 10k words)

a beautiful study in the past and the faeth family (’s collective inability to process or believe in themselves). heartwrenching is truly one of the best words for it.

Truman Show Complex [Series] by @levonleviathan (2 works in series; fantasy high, 1.2k and 1k words)

oh my goddddd oh my goddd kipperlilly copperkettle girlie. girlie you are so fucked up please get therapy from a guy who’s not involved. girlie please. Anyway everyone go read this kipperlilly understanding she’s in media without understanding what media she’s in

i'd take your dreams and make em multiply by @lunarblazes (the unsleeping city, pete&kingston, 2.2k words)

this isn't heartwrenching, but it's equally not lighthearted. it’s just beautiful. seeing the world from your opposite’s shoes; feeling an uncomfort in it and an understanding and an agreement that this is not you and you need to get back to your city the way you have it, not his.

go home and save what little you have by @luvo27 (fantasy high, 3k words, archive locked)

grief and mourning and humor and augh. it toes the line so well in a way only the seacasters can, i think, and it’s amazing.

don't you know there's a coffin buried under the garden by @vivitalks (fantasy high, fig/gorgug, 19k words)

our boy gorgug is GOING THROUGH IT SO MUCH and it’s beautiful. it’s the perfect mix of dnd mechanics and fiction magic, and the descriptions are terrifying. he knows his friends too well. this does not quite help him.

storm clouds by @cookies-over-yonder (acofaf, andhera&advisor, 656 words)

the andhera & advisor fic i needed in my life, actually. the emotions in this fic are so crisp and spirally and clear, and the care is even more palpable.

royal dues come calling by @serra-says (fantasy high, 24k words)

TORTURE! THAT! BOY! WITH! THE RELATIONSHIP DEMON! Oh my god the terror and the pleading and baron’s voice. baron’s voice.

The Spring to my Autumn by @madgirlmuahaha (acofaf, gwyndolin/binx, 2k words, archive locked)

for a character we don’t actually meet, gwendolyn really is haunting the narrative. But this precanon fic. augh. binx and gwyn’s relationship is heartwrenching and binx’s loss of all their relationships and their isolation and just. aughhh

Don't you wanna see what you've been missing? by @luvo27 (fantasy high, love potion'd riz, 11k words, archive locked)

luvo. luvo. luvo. killing you dead this fic made me so viscerally uncomfortable. it’s beautiful and painful and so, so good. screaming crying throwing up etc.

a failure of a mother & the daughter the other one tried to sacrifice by @arcanearies (the seven, sam&rebecca, 3k words, archive locked)

the seven fanfic and it’s tragic both ways. god mourning someone who hurt you. mourning someone you think you should’ve saved. mourning your lack of anger. being angry.

Stuck In Your Head [series] by @mossterious (6 fics; mentopolis and various, 2.8k, 3.1k, 3.4k, 2.8k, 3.1k, 2.8k)

what better way to analyze characters to literally send some other guy into their head? seeing how each of the prefrontal pis took to the scenario, too, was SO cool, and just. the care that they have for each other. <33

[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

[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

[chromathesia]

interest check for a possible new d20 fandom event coming in september :)

D20 FIC-OFF: Interest Check!

D20 FIC-OFF: Interest Check!

hello hi! i'd greatly appreciate if you took a minute or so to fill out this interest check for a new (hopefully annual) d20 event for writers! if all goes to plan, the first iteration of this event will take place in september, so i really want to get a pulse on what the fandom itself would want out of it :)

*EDITED: this project is now running on @d20ficoff! please check there for more info :)

[cindytoast404]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Bad Kids & The Bad Kids (Dimension 20) Characters: Adaine Abernant, Kristen Applebees, Riz Gukgak, Figueroth Faeth, Gorgug Thistlespring, Fabian Aramais Seacaster Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Class Swap, Role Reversal, Barbarian Adaine Abernant, Fighter Kristen Applebees, Cleric Riz Gukgak, Wizard Gorgug Thistlespring, he’s the greatest wizard of our age <3, Rogue Figueroth Faeth, Bard Fabian Aramais Seacaster Summary:

As the first day of freshman year dawns for many of the students of Aguefort Adventuring Academy, things shift ever so slightly — especially when it comes to the courses of enrollment.

(this was submitted for the roleswap prompt for @d20ficoff, but here’s to hoping i can actually finish this one for once!£

[something-wilder]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Fabian is an exquisitely good liar. One has to be, to please an immortal parent and convince five incredibly powerful friends that he's constantly okay and maintain his Maximum Legend reputation. If he doesn't project perfect strength, perfect grace, perfect wit and humor (or what passes for it, at least) and laugh off every assumption against him, everything he's ever tried to build and be will fall apart. It comes to him as easily as breathing at this point--not the small stuff, the stupid stuff, like figuring out fake names and identities, but pretending he's okay? Simple. Effortless. Because he is okay. He has to be. Unknowingly being under a slow-acting truth spell might screw all of that up, though. ... Fabian gets hit with truth magic. Turns out his life doesn't, in fact, rule ninety-five percent of the time.

fabian vs truth serum vs hallariel. shockingly, the winner is not fabian

[remidyal]

Fantasy High Oneshot - Academic Warfare

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A ficoff fic, I missed the deadline for the prompt on this one for @d20ficoff (non-traditional format, in this case emails) but I think I like it a pretty decent amount anyways. Enjoy this insight into the work emails of the Aguefort Adventuring Academy!