The FFXIV Swap Discord is a Discord server that serves as a home to an ever-growing collection of fans of Final Fantasy XIV who have come together to share their characters, their lore, and their headcanons. We started out as a group of players who wanted to create art or stories for each other and developed a quarterly Swap where participants receive the character of another participant and create a gift for them. Each Swap comes with optional themes to help guide Swappers in creating their gifts, but participants are encouraged to be creative. Prior gifts include: fanfiction, gpose sets, hand-drawn fanart, inked stamps, recipes, and more. There is no requirement to join the Swap other than a willingness to create for a stranger and the ability to commit to completing your project in two months.
Wiki Rules will be found here.
FFXIV Swap is a digital gift swap run here on discord! Participants will be assigned someone to make a gift for, featuring that person’s FFXIV OC, and in return they also get a gift made of their OC! The idea is to spread the love and joy of creating and of sharing our characters with each other.
Pretty much anything, so long as it’s made by you and features your giftee’s FFXIV OC. We’ve had everything from gpose and writing and art to poetry and recipes and playing cards, and even physical items!
Swaps typically run quarterly, with two months of swap and a one month break in between. Dawntrail is going to throw a bit of a wrench in that plan, but we’ll figure that out as we go.
No! You don’t even have to participate in any to be here, we value our community just as much as our swappers. You can participate in some or none or every single one!
Yes, each swap has a roughly two-month deadline. If you need an extension, please let a mod know ASAP. The deadlines are there to help and guide you, not to hinder you.
Nope! They’re simply there to help guide you if you can’t come up with any other ideas.
While the pairings are done Secret Santa-style (in that the person you get assigned to make a gift for isn’t the person assigned to make you a gift), they are not kept secret! This is due to the deep nature of OCs and the reliance many of us have on communication to make the gifts we make. All participant’s names are put into a generator and then moved to a spreadsheet that is posted publicly for all swappers to see. Care is taken to ensure that participants aren’t paired with anyone they’ve had before, and to ensure that no one is making a gift for their own gifter.
While it’s not required to have everything sorted prior to signing up, it’s highly encouraged to have concise and easy to access OC information at the ready! For example, I have a two-page document for each of my OCs, plus front and back reference images of my favorite outfits, plus multiple .chara and .mcdf files and a mod list ready to go, and I would encourage others to have something roughly the same! If you don’t mod, a .dat file can suffice if paired with a list of the exact gear and dyes your OC wears, or someone who does mod can meet you in game and save a .chara file for you!
This is a server specifically for FFXIV and XIV OCs.
While you're free to discuss other things in the appropriate chats and general chats, the OC chats, screenshot and art chats, lore chat, etc should all pertain to FFXIV. It's fine if your XIV OC comes from elsewhere or exists in other universes or even crossovers. However, in general, the content has to be related to XIV somehow.
Any channel whose purpose is to show images or links, we will be enforcing a no off topic rule.
These channels will be: #self-promos-and-events , #finished-swaps , #commission-and-merch-boosts , #looking-for-x , screenshots-and-artwork , #writing-and-fic-links , #spicy-pose-and-art , oc-info , #character-files , #writing-resources and tumblr-prompt-and-ask-games . We can have brief discussions about things posted there. For full on conversations we recommend going to the appropriate discussion chat or creating a thread.
Respect everybody
There will be no discrimination, hate speech or harassment of any kind in this Discord. This includes making death threats or wishing death/serious harm upon anyone, whether direct or not or towards someone in this server or not, even if you're being vague or joking.
Respect reflects onto our OCs
Respect everybody's OCs, ships and lore. No mocking, no harassing. All OCs are valid, no matter the size, race, gender or history.
If someone ships/plays in a way you don't like, simply don't interact.
There will be no harassment, accusations, name calling, etc because of who people choose to ship with who.
We follow the two-week spoiler policy
Browse at your own risk and keep to the spoiler chat for those.
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
If you see people talking about thing X and think, “Oh, I hate thing X, better type a message to tell everyone that” - STOP. All you'll do is derail/end the conversation and make people feel bad. Remember, you can always just SCROLL PAST a conversation you don't like, you don't need to insert yourself.
Keep lore discussion friendly and light.
You are allow to criticize the media we consume. However, we aren't here to shit on the game or the writers, or to bring real world morality into a fictional universe. You can of course discuss things you don't like but do so in a way that doesn't invalidate those who do like it.
Example:
Do ✅ : “I found the writing in this expansion to be lackluster because of X.”
Don't ❌ : “I dislike X character and I hate that the writers focus too much time on them.”
Keep criticisms clear and concise.
While you can criticize the media. Keep in mind, what you may dislike may be something that someone else loves. Please keep the discussion within reason and move to elsewhere if you need to debate or vent.
Example:
Do ✅ : “I don't like how this change will make my character look.”
Do ✅ : “I worry about the changes to X job because of x,y, and z.”
Don't ❌ : “Wow I feel bad for face 5 midlanders they got fucked with these changes.”
Don't ❌ : “X job is dead with this change.”
Absolutely, positively, NO AI GENERATED CONTENT ALLOWED. If you are found to have posted AI content you will be banned, no ifs, ands or buts.
We mean it, instant ban!
No self depreciation.
While we appreciate that many members of our community may experience mental health conditions, trauma, or other issues, we ask that members understand that excessive self-deprecation within chat can negatively impact the health and well-being of others, and is ultimately detrimental to oneself as well. Please don't be mean to yourselves.
No oversharing personal life details
Limitations on discussions of sensitive topics
As moderators, we want to do out best to protect the members of our community on this server. We sympathise with the struggles faced, particularly by members who are part of one or more disadvantaged groups. However, we are not equipped to provide therapy or proper mental health support, and we need to foster a community who are mindful that what they say may have inadvertent effects on others. As such, we do not allow discussions which could be reasonably expected to be a potential trigger for survivors. This includes, but is not limited to:
We appreciate that sometimes normal discussions can veer close to these, and the line cannot always be clear, so we ask that members be mindful, and please respect a mod's decision if they feel the topic has gone too far.
If you feel you have been affected by a topic such as the above being discussed in the server, please raise a ticket with us, as we would like to understand the needs of our community.
If you yourself are in crisis or need to vent/discuss something related to these types of topics, we ask that you please utilise another server or resource who are equipped for it. If you are strongly struggling and cannot find another resource, please raise a mod ticket and we will do what we can to help find appropriate support and resources.
If there is any issues, concerns, or feedback that you need the mods eyes on, we recommend putting in a ticket in mod-tickets and the entire mod team can review it and handle it accordingly as soon as possible. The tickets will be private between you and the mods on the server.
To open up a ticket use !modmail openticket <message> mod-tickets. Replace <message> with what you want us to know.
You may still contact any of the mods directly in a DM if needed.