Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170430155022/@comment-25936766-20170526231632

"No reality shifted characters or ports" was, for starters, too vague, and if it wasn't for the example (which the current versions kept) no one would know what it really meant.

And how much a character follows their allusion, or how much they are like X other character from Y work, can range from "small references" to "small differences", and denying someone the latter just because it's "too similar" is not fair even if it's not the most creative thing ever.

"No characters from other (modern) fictional works" is, for starters, what the previous "version" wanted to do. The new wording just made the intended goal clearer. It was supposed to be "Don't make Naruto on RWBY", and still is "Don't make Naruto on RWBY".

But if you want to criticize someone making a character based on X god "too similar" to said god, even if in personality and appearance and story and other things they are different, let me ask you something:

Have you criticized everyone who has done something similar equally? Did you criticize Cyrania when she esentially ported Cyrano de Bergerac, for example?