Prompt Guide

Created: 14 March 2025, 04:23:17 UTC
Last updated: 17 June 2025, 07:16:12 UTC


Prompts are the core method of interacting with the Crederia ARPG and are designed to help develop your characters and immerse you in the world they live in. Participation with your own Crederian is required for most prompts, although there are some prompts based around gifts for others.
  • Pink%20Header_600.pngEntering prompts rewards you with our core currency known simply as Coins, as well as the rarer Magia Fragment. Coins are golden, diamond shaped disks with a small shaped hole along the top which is often used to thread coins together for easy transportation and bundling.
    • Coins may be Spent in most shops in The Marketplace, namely:
    • Design updates at Prie's Goods,
    • Trait vials and oddities at The Alchemical Workshop 
    • MYOs at The Crystal Altar
    • Specialty Shops like Glamour's Salon which offer discount eye traits so you don't require full trait vials!
    • Magia Fragments can be spent in specialty shops like our temporary Seasonal Shop! It can be found in The Marketplace several times per year. 
    • Special Prompts will appear during a specific season or time of year! The News will be the best place to always catch the newest arrivals.
    • If you have sketches, doodles, or random artwork of your Crederians that don't fit into any of our prompts you can submit them for Spare Change!

     


    Submit a Prompt Prompt List



    📜 Step-by-step Guide
    Step 1

    • 1. Visit our [prompts page] and click the magnifying glass of the type of prompt you're looking for.
    • 2. Click the drop-down arrow of your prompt to find the info, rules, and reward details. 
    • 3. Rewards will be visible at the bottom of every prompt.
    • 4. Click directly on the submit button to get started!

     

    Step 2

    • 1. Hitting the Submit button directly on a prompt will fill in the prompt title for you. This drop-down can be used to change the prompt or to find your prompt if you access the general prompt submission page.
    • 2. Include a direct link to your submission. You may submit links from image-hosting or gallery sites like deviantart or toyhou.se.
    • 3. The Gallery is the easiest way to submit your art as it lets you select it directly from the site. You also get 1 Coin for submitting to the gallery!
    • All prompts have a comment section below the URLs that must include a breakdown of your coin rewards. They should look something like:

    Base: +5
    Bonus
    1 Fullbody Adult: +3
    1 Baby: +1
    General Background: +5
    Total: 14 Coins

    Step 3

    • 4. Any characters used in the submission must be included in the Character section by hitting "Add Character" and including their character code.
    • 5. A blank row will appear that lets you click to find a drop-down. If you know the characters name that may also be used to find them. 

    Step 4 (optional)

    • 1. Criteria are a series of drop-down menus that help you calculate your coin rewards. Click "Add Criteria" to begin!
    • 2. A bar will appear that asks you to select your optoins, you can click anywhere on the bar to open up the menu.
    • 3. The usual option will likely be "Artwork Submission", which will pop open several bars that you can click through to figure out your coins. (I.e. How many extra characters, background bonus, etc).


    Criteria are set up to help users calculate coins and to help streamline the process for mods. That being said, the user-based breakdown is still a requirement! 

    Step 5

    • You're always able to save your draft if you need more time to finish but once you've completeled all the steps you can click Submit and you're done!  

     

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    • Artwork and written works for prompts must made by you and should only include Crederian characters.
    • Collaborative works are not currently eligable for coins.
    • Commissioned work cannot be used as prompt submissions, but may be included in the Spare Change prompt.
    • Bases may not be used for prompts unless you made the base yourself in which case the base may be used once. Additional uses of the base may be sent to Spare Change.
    • Each submission should be unique can cannot be used on multiple prompts.
    • AI generated work (written or drawn) is not allowed.

     

    📜 Content Guidelines

    Crederia is a 16+ world, and makes use of fantasy violence, mild gore, mild blood, mild suggestive themes, dark themes, and infrequent use of strong language.

    • Explicit adult content may not be submitted. This includes topics of exlicit "NSFW" content, including but not limited to:
    • Graphic depictions or discussions of sex, pornagraphy, or erotic content.
    • Graphic depictions or discussions of violence and gore
    • Discussion of heavy themes, including but not limited to heavy drugs, sexual violence, or abuse
    • Fantasy dark subjects are allowed but avoid real-world or graphic depictions of this content.
    • Highly suggestive content will be declined at moderator discretion.
    • Crederia makes use of fantasy gore and horror: exposed bones, blood, and injury on reanimated creatures (zombies, vampires, etc) and content in this realm is welcome when depicted mildly or in a cartoonish manner.
    • Acts of violence may be depicted within the fantasy/cartoon allowance given to gore.
    • Horror/Gore is allowed when depicted mildly.
    • Heavy scarring is allowed..
    • Heavy or realistic gore, injury, and viscera is not allowed.

 


  • Prompts are spread out into various groups that all focus on something different.
  • While rewards will largely be similar, some prompts will have rewards unique to them. All rewards are located in the description and the bottom of each individual prompt.
 Prompt Description Reward      

sparkle_10.png General
sparkle_10.png Character Quests

Our standard prompts. Quests are for story building while general prompts are for fun! Standard Array
5 Coins
1 Magia Fragments
 
sparkle_10.png Seasonal Prompts that change along with the seasons.  Seasonal Array
5 Coins
2 Magia Fragments
Item Reward
sparkle_10.png Event Story-based or themed prompts that come in pairs or parts a few times a year. These prompts have limited entries. Event Array
5 Coins
2 Magia Fragments
Item Reward
sparkle_10.png Growing Up Baby prompts that are a requirement for any baby Crederian to grow up. These prompts are optional for adult Crederians. Limited Array
5 Coins
 
 
sparkle_10.png Spare Change Where all non-specific artwork can be submitted for spare change! Gift prompts also fall under this category and net larger rewards. Varies
1 Coins
 
 
sparkle_10.png Raffles
Prompts that require gift art to enter for a chance to win a character design or items. Raffle Array
5 Coins
 
Raffle Ticket

 The game is still being balanced so coin amounts are subject to increase or decrease. Prompt categories not depicted in this chart are not currently active! 

 

sparkle_25.png Art Definitions sparkle_25.png

 
 
sparkle_10.png Crederian Characters that are on the masterlist.
sparkle_10.png Scene An image that includes a Crederian in a developed setting. 
sparkle_10.png Environment The space that a Crederian occupies.
sparkle_10.png Plane Background, Middle Ground, and Foreground.
sparkle_10.png Element An object/thing that is included in a scene. For prompts, Crederians used for coins do not count as elements. 
 minimum Requirements

  • Character is at least 50% visible and is fully colored.
  • Submission contains a simple background
  • The submission follows the prompt

📜 What Counts as 50%?

Characters should have about half of their body and features visible. The way you crop your character is flexible as long as they are identifiable as your character! Usually you want to include a small portion of their head or face. 

  • Crederians will have different requirements based on the side of their tails, hair, or other extremeties, so feel free to ask if you're unsure over at the Crederia Discord!

   

Your Crederian's face does not need to be visible but we discourage posting just the back half of a Crederian for your focal character.

📜 How Detailed Should I be?

Characters should be clearly recognizable in your pieces, but may be cleanly lined, lineless, or sketchy. Sketchy Crederians should still have their features defined and lines shouldn't clump so much as to make it confusing to understand what we're looking at. Cleaner character lines are required for detailed pictures, which will be explained further down.

📜 Stylistic Choices
  • Your masterlist entry must always show your character's base design but you are welcome to play with light, shadow, and effects that may shift the appearance of your Crederian in a scene! Shifting your characters colors for no feasible lighting reasons will not be accepted! (negative pallet, alternative palettes for "fun", toxic/hypnotic color shifts, etc)

  • Crederians are normally depicted as their four-legged Crederian forms but for prompts you're welcome to depict them as Humanoids, Anthros, Satyrs, and forms in between the forms just listed!
    • There are canonical forms for each Crederians, but you're not limited to them as long as your character is clearly identifiable as the Crederian you're submitting for.
    • Canon forms will have examples for each species in the future! In the meantime, here are examples of a Mantibab's forms.
      • Quad Form: This is your starting Crederian form. 
      • Anthropomorphic Form: Your Crederian stands on two legs and retains their species qualities entirely. 
      • Humanoid Form: Crederians canonically cannot shift completely into a "Human" and will always retain some key features. Mantibabs retain their horns at all times and commonly have small furred ears that mirror their actual Mantibab ears. Alternative forms can have fully nude "elf" ears or their big ol Mantibab ears! Their nails also retain their natural bab color.
      • Satyr Form: A half-way form between humanoid and anthro where the lower half of your Crederian is furred and retains all Mantibab qualities while the upper half is more human, although furrier than the humanoid form! 

  • Chibis or mini stylized versions of your Crederian are fully welcome! All requirements and bonus opportunities are treated the same for chibis the way they are for other stylizations of characters. 

 

  • Entries may be completely done via pixels as well as long as your Crederian fills or extends past a 100x100 box
    • 50x50 pixels that are resized larger will not count.
    • Environments should extend past your Crederian the same as standard prompts but do not have pixel requirements. 

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📜 Coverings
Clothing and Coverings

You are fully welcome to deck out your Crederians in any appropriate clothing you desire but should take care not to obscure too much of your character in order to count towards the prompt minimum. Their features should be visible regardless of coverings. Face shrouds should remain low opacity to keep the details visible.

 

Obscuring limitations

Twinkle_Button_Gold.png Clothing
  • Your Crederian should have some portion of their face visible from any hood, hat, or other face covering. 
  • Clothing or armor that covers large parts of your character may be accepted if some of the face and other extremeties are visible and identifiable as your character. 
  • Cloaks are subject to not counting towards the full-body bonus if they obscure too much of your character's design.
Twinkle_Button_Gold.png Foreground Elements

  • Foreground elements such as trees, leaves, fences, animals, and other such objects may be used to obscure parts of your character! 
  • Crederians will have different requirements based on the side of their tails, hair, or other extremeties, so feel free to ask if you're unsure over at the Crederia Discord!

❌ In our third example the Crederian's head, hand, and a small portion of their back is visible. This would not meet the 50% threshhold.

sparkle_25.png Bonuses


📜 Character

Focal Character

The Focal Character refers to your Crederian in prompt submissions, or the main character in gift art! Reward

sparkle_10.png Halfbody (50%): Base

  • This is the minimum requirement for a character to count towards a prompt and counts towards Standard Array.

 

sparkle_10.png Fullbody (75%+)

  • "Fullbody" refers to at least 75% of your Crederian being visible in any scene they're in.
  • This bonus can be used on extra Crederians.

+3

sparkle_10.png Shading

  • Shading must follow the shape or form of the character in significant or realistic ways to count for this bonus. 
  • Extra Crederians may not earn this bonus.

+2

Up to 3 additional Adult Crederians may be submitted for bonus coin.gif Coins in a single submission. (Though you are welcome to include more than that to count as additional "elements" which is explained in the Background section.) 

  • Characters that do not belong to you should have the gift art button turned On to count towards this bonus. You can find them [here]

Extra adult crederians

Description

Reward

+1 Crederian

 

+3

+2 crederians

 

+6

+3 crederians

 

+9

Extra Baby Creds

Any Crederian with the Baby subtype of their species falls into this category and may be included for additional bonus coins.

 

 +1 baby

 

+2

+2 babies

 

+3

+3 babies

 

+4

+4 babies

 

+5

+5 babies

 

+6

Certain prompts may have bonus coin.gif coins available for including one of these NPCs in your submissions. If the option is not directly in the prompt, the bonus cannot be applied.

  • NPCS do not count towards the extra Crederian bonus, and may be added on top of extra crederians.

NPC Bonus

NPCS, or Non Player Characters, are story-based characters that are labelled with the NPC rarity. 

Reward

Core NPC

If the option is available, a prompt may include a Core NPC, or an NPC that is the focus of the storyline being used.

5

Optional NPC

Some prompts may offer the general use of NPCs to include in your prompts, general NPCs count as Optional. 

3  

Optional NPC 2

 

3

Optional NPC 3

 

3

 
📜 Backgrounds

Backgrounds


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Simple Background

Simple backgrounds contain enough information to show the space your character is in. This is the minimum requied background for all base prompts.

  • Solid colors or subtle gradients
  • Little detail or depth
  • Minimal elements.
  • Blurry or not clearly defined
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General Background

+5 coin.gif Coins

General backgrounds are further developed and offer more information of the environment. Light and shadow come into play alongisde lightly defined elements.

  • At least 5 Clear elements.
  • There are 2 out of 3 planes (foreground, middleground, background)
  • Image does not contain much blurring or obscured detail.
  • Must contain minimal shading.
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Detailed Background

+10 coin.gif Coins

Detailed backgrounds immerse the character in an illustration that includes depth alongside light, shadow, and a higher level of detail.

  • At least 10 Clear unique elements
    • 5 of these should fall under the Detailed category.
    • like-items will be counted together.
  • Should contain Foreground, Middleground, and Background.
  • Must contain detailed shading that wraps appropriately around objecs and interacts with the environment.
  • Character should be interacting with the environment.
sparkle_25.png Background elements

  • The "elements" of a background are categorized as the individual or groups of details added to a piece like a path, trees, flowers, or rocks.
  • The mandatory simple background does not require any additional elements.
  • Each type of element is counted as a group (i.e. trees, flowers, grass, rocks, etc) and are slotted into one of the three detail categories based on the level of detail they contain.  
    • If your elements are highly distinct or used as significantly different elements (having multi-flora growing along the fields while a character drags a wagon full of unrelated flowers for example) they may be counted separately.

 

Simple

General

Detailed

Simple Elements contain very little detail and are often solid shapes of color stacked heavily atop one another. General Elements define the shapes with minimal line or simple, blocky shadows, but lack depth or detail. Simple gradients, or blobs of color are laid down without too much refinement. Textures are simple and may not follow the form or shape of an object. Detailed Elements contain line, shadow, and multiple colors to refine and add depth. Textures are defined and work with shadow and light. Shading contains multiple colors or layers and wrap around objects clearly.

 

  • Crederians may be submitted as background elements only if they are not being submitted for coins (i.e. you've drawn over 4 adult Crederians in your prompt submisison)
    • Crederians must follow the same detail rules as normal elements, and will only be considered detailed if they contain clean lines, shadow, and are fullbody. 
      • Complex characters (like those with path-traits) may be considered a detailed element if they are 50% visible and contain clean lines and shadow. 
    • If you've drawn multiple parts of various characters, they may be considered an element if there are enough pieces to "construct" a full-bodied Crederian. 

Examples TBA  pawb_standing_50.png

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