Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-43886832-20190922195223/@comment-24101790-20190922200413

A story that directly uses another IP like DnD lore or Vampire: The Masquerade (characters, events, items, worlds, etc.) would need to pass our spinoff appeal before they could be posted. Posting it without approval will result in the story being removed and a warning being issues as it's in violation of our site rules.

As for the second question, I don't really see that idea ("the narrator rediscovers old stories they themselves wrote a long time ago as a teenager, but never posted to the public (or maybe they did post them and forgot about it).") requiring an appeal as it doesn't use any intellectual properties that the author themselves did not create. An example of something being a spinoff for clarification would be: a story set in the world of Fallout/Magic the Gathering/Dungeons and Dragons/etc., a story that uses characters from another IP like Baron of Aurora (even if it's an original story), or a story that is added as a sequel/prequel/etc. to another authors' work.

Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions and we can try to clear things up a bit.