FFXIV Swap Discord

• If you're unable to complete your swap, please let us know ASAP so we can reassign those affected.
• Please make sure you have role pings open for the server! These will be used for swap communication only. If you have issues communicating with your partner, let the mods know and we'll step in to help.
• Only one OC per swap, unless your partner is willing to do extra! That is completely up to them, and they have every right to say no.
• Any sort of medium is allowed for your gift, so long as you put your heart into it!
• If you have any reason to be uncomfortable with your partners (former disputes, simply don't get along, etc) let the mods know ASAP and we can get you both reassigned.
• Please keep your Discord DMs open, at the very least for anyone who shares a server! Discord is the only means of communication for swaps going forward unless agreed upon by you and your partners, and the only method in which the mods will contact you.

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!