legit question-about doing something

[StriderShinryu]

Look up "Final Fantasy: Legend of Balance" - which is a genuinely very good FF14 RPGMaker game.
... which came out in 2016, so a lot of it is actually roasting 1.0 and FF11, though there's elements of ARR as well, and an original story.

Did not get cease and desisted, despite being featured on RPGMaker.net.

Yep. If it's just a fan project, especially one for fun and sharing with a few friends (if you're even planning to share it at all), SE isn't going to care. They're not going to beat down your door and shove a cease and desist letter in your face. They're really only going to care if you start publicizing it, if you clearly just ripped their content like art assets/music, or if you start trying to make money off of it.

[gotaname1]

Yep. If it's just a fan project, especially one for fun and sharing with a few friends (if you're even planning to share it at all), SE isn't going to care. They're not going to beat down your door and shove a cease and desist letter in your face. They're really only going to care if you start publicizing it, if you clearly just ripped their content like art assets/music, or if you start trying to make money off of it.

Or just straight up surpass anything SE put out with their original IP *Cries in Chrono Trigger Resurection*