User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/RWBY Fanfictions/@comment-3083606-20150630221649/@comment-25405817-20150701033945

I don't see why we cannot talk about crossovers if they involve RWBY in the mix.

However, I must speak from experience that most crossover fan-works are done by people that truly don't understand how to make them.

A crossover is a mix; you take two ingredients and try to mix them together. Sometimes, one ingredient has a piece that clashes with a piece from the other ingredient, so you need to remove both pieces so that you mix tastes good.

If we thing of a crossover as an alloy, then you also need to know how to mix the two metals. Simply putting A and B together might work in some cases, while in others you need to melt each ingredient separately and then combining them or melting them together at the same time.

One example: Would having the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet up with Team RWBY be a good idea for a crossover, as long as the setting doesn't involve the turtles assisting at Beacon?

If your answer was "yes", congratulations! You can discern what is a good idea for a crossover.

Another example: Would you rather read a crossover that has the Reds and Blues of Blood Gulch, replaced with characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, with the exact same story and setting; or have the story of these soldiers deviate because of the appearance of one of the characters from the same show in the middle of their box canyon, and eventually have the characters from both source materials working together in an original plot derived from both continuities?

While some of you might think "Wow, what a douche this guy for bringing ponies into this site", you can't deny that the second option sounds more interesting of a plot than just rehashing the same plot as the other, only changing the characters from one show with characters from the other show.

Making crossovers is a tricky dicipline, and I don't claim to be an expert on making crossovers myself, but I understand enough of the crossover types and their execution to tell which stories are good and which are not.

On that note, I will link a RWBY/Digimon Crossover that has a lot of potential to be something great:

[|Digital Hunters]

I also have a RWBY Crossover, but linking it here would be a shameless plug. :P