Define biggest. Scope? Number of people doing it?

Did you ask this expecting an actual answer?

>>12591499
people involved

ANGRY MARINES.

Well, if they're not the biggest, then at least they're the ANGRIEST.

/tg/.

I can remember the yiffified setting...

>granting swords
No, captcha. We need firebombs.

>>12591492
Failing to get shit done. That's our biggest group effort.

>>12591506
As far as anything that went anywhere, not many...high single digits/low double, maybe? /tg/ is great at puking out random ideas for something, but absolutely terrible at following through. Most things get feature creeped to death before they can get anywhere.

8bit Grim Dark setting?

These are the main Games that I know are complete:
Velocity
Engine Heart
Lesbian Jet Fighters

Also, there are individual threads that get a massive world building effort. Not a system, but a setting.

Changeling Zelda, Mythicals (Modern), Unified (Yiffifyed) setting, and the Rain Parade.

>>12591518
Off the top of my head, /tg/ project that went somewhere:
-Engine Heart
-Adeptus Evangelion
-Stripped Gears (maybe. It seems to be going okay last I looked)
-VeloCITY

Any others I'm forgetting?

>>12591580

Wild Cards.

>>12591577
>>Lesbian Jet Fighters
...o.O
That d4chan?

Engine Heart is our biggest success at the moment, having actually been published. We also have Adeptus Evangelion, Pokemon Tabletop Adventures, A Certain Roleplaying Game, Planes and Mercs, the Catfight system, 8-bit dystopia, Siegeball, Machina Dei, Server Crash, and Stripped Gears.

So, did "A Certain RPG" ever pull together, or is it still in the "here are a bunch of flavorful generation charts and rules that don't quite fit together" stage?

>>12591587
Nobody talks about it here though so I forgot it existed.

>>12591596
>Machina Dei
I thought that stalled?

For fun, how many failed projects can people recall? Off the top of my head:
-Dyad
-Arthropocalypse (the RPG)
-Arthropocalypse (the wargame)
-Unnamed "monstergirls in modern world" setting/game.

>>12591580
>>12591596
Stripped gears isn't really a success just yet.

>>12591632

It did, but fuck me if it didn't have the most awesome fluff ever.

>the Catfight system
wat

Did we ever finish Audiomancer?

>>12591637
It's gone farther than most /tg/ ideas, which is something.

>>12591632
Machina Dei did stall, I was one of the people involved in that. At the end there were like 3 of us, and we'd been doing it basically all week and were fucking worn. Eventually all of us overslept, a thread died without a followup thread, and none of us cared enough to make another.

Honestly, if I had to try to remake another version I'd start from the ground up, that one guy pushing WHFB mechanics largely dominated the rules discussion.

I bring you ancient /tg/ projects, obscured by the dust of the ages!

Uberstadt - a D&D setting that inverted all clichés.
Rodentia - Mouse Guard-like "talking animal" setting.
Nutopia - Post-apocalyptic post-cyberpunk post-modern setting. Built in Eclipse Phase.
Trigger Discipline - A game to simulate mecha anime evolved into a game to simulate anime.
Vril War - Alt-history WWII with humanoid mechs and actual thought behind how and why they work.
Necrololi - a Dickensian setting where magic can only be learned by children bound to demons that take the shape of toys.

>>12591670

Yeah, that bugged me too. I personally wanted to focus on one army besides "Primary, secondary, tertiary" general unit classifications. Flesh out weapon types, mech types, and so on. Eventually the number of armies became top-heavy too.

>>12591580
Wild Cards, my friend, though it lay at the wayside until I formulated rules for it and placed them on the Wiki.

>>12591656
I'm kind of shocked that multiple people mentioned it, honestly. The last thread was just me bumping every time I thought of something or updated the wiki.

>>12591724
If it is in any way sexual, /tg/ will remember it.

>>12591703
You're not kidding about too many armies. Just checked the 1d4chan page and there's a lot of ideas there.

VeloCITY got somewhere, then Nothing Man scrapped the whole thing and wanted to rework it from the ground up. It's a shame- I wanted to play Extreme Segway Man.

...Seriously, /tg/?

Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures.

Has Dr. Mr. Stark been forgotten so quickly?

>>12591671
>Uberstadt

I think I remember this one, was it set in a giant city surrounded by deadly forests and the halfings in this setting were blood thirsty cannibals while golbins/kobolds were intelligent and well respected?

>>12591709

I've heard Wild Cards mentioned quite a bit lately, can you point me in the direction of some source?

>>12591736

I personally would have axed the mercenary factions, unless you wanted Knut the Great conquering the British Isles, allowing for a mix between Vikings and Celts. The Necron Christians were cool too, but too irrelevant on the scale of things. Of course, that was the point.

>>12591757

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Wild_Cards

>>12591757
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Wild_Cards

Wild Cards suffered from a bad case of the Fluff Pox. After the concept lingered for a month or so, I sat down and came up with a rough draft for some simple rules. Following some playtesting, I came up with the final system seen on the 1d4chan page.

The Dealer system was developed independent of fluff, so some things may different (though they're easily changed).

>>12591596
>Server Crash

I really liked this one. Shame it died.

>>12591790
Me too.

That and Scholomance (grimdark magic academy) are my favorite things to come out of /tg/

Americana was pretty big, as I recall. And also awesome.

Step one: Get all the psycho-awesome settings that /tg/ has made together.
Step two: Find a universal system that is not GURPS.
Step three: Adapt `em for said system.
Step four: Release into the wild.
Step five: Become the stuff of legend via word of mouth and viral marketing.
Step six: Book on game theory, con circuit, profit!

>>12591847
Server Crash was proven to work extremely well with Don't Rest Your Head.

Probably AdEva. There have been bigger projects but they remain unfinished.

>>12591847
The Dealer system can theoretically be adapted to other settings (changing the names of the base stats/bullet points).

>>12591787

Reading the rules of wildcards, quick question about crunch:

>A player receives an extra point in whatever suit his gun is connected to.
>a score cannot be higher than 3

Does the gun's extra point override the usual 3 point limit? I mean, if you have 3 in clubs and get your hands on a club card will that score now be 4? Or is it a hard limit at 3?

I actually ran a Wild cards game in Gurps before, it was just a one session game but it worked at pretty well.

Does anyone else remember scholomance?

I talked to the guy who headed that project a while back. It seems they got together and hammered out some mechanics for it... but apparently he misplaced it. Ffffffffff.

>>12591603
The Bard here, we made a playable game and got a couple playtest sessions done, then I had shitfuck trouble coordinating players and gave up. Lolimaster and those fine gents may have gotten further, I'm not sure.

>>12591906

yeah, real life snuck up on me. Sorry about vanishing without warning

>>12591884
Specific rules override broad rules; in this case, the extra +1 overrides the limit of 3 points.

>>12591931
It's cool, that happened to a lot of people. Glad we got a playable product out of it, though.

>>12591889
Was GURPS used out of preference, or before I uploaded a system?

>>12591937
>Specific rules override broad rules

That pretty much satisfied any crunch curiosity I had.

Honestly I think you've come up with a solid system here with a lot of potential to draw in new players. I'd also be interested in using the playing card rule set with poker rules, 5 cards face up that can be used by any player and two cards in hand. See some bluffing mixed in with the game play, not sure how to execute it though.

>>12591970
both actually, i didnt know you had the rules up and i needed a general system i've run before. Had some kinks but it was fun. One of the players found out he was using a joker that was disguised as a four of hearts

There was 'Mearker: Deep Space Warfare' for a little while, before a bunch of faggots went on about 'Deep Thrust' or whatever

The Unified Furfag Setting went places for awhile. Thankfully it got trolled out of existence.

/tg/ should do a "Shi/t g/ets done" thread every saturday, pick a /tg/ project and put some solid work into it. The thread wouldn't be on the same thing twice in a month, nor would the same thing be used more then twice in three months (makes sure we spread our effort, remember people can still make their own different threads for things whenever they like).

Only started settings could be done (since we're great at new ideas, but bad at finishing them). How we decide what is to be worked on in any given week I'm unsure of, possibly some kind of vote? First to three, from valid ideas or something?

People would contribute, and because stuff is getting done
1) /tg/'s rep as a board where shi/t g/ets done will return
2) We'd get us a whole bunch of cool new gaming stuff, for free
3) We'd all be creating stuff, which is also fun
4) Store it up on 1d4chan and around, always good
5) With the day of Saturday as a day to pool our effort we'd be able to concentrate our writefags, drawfags, setting carvers, rulescrafters etc. productively and have some output.
lotz) WAAAGH!
lotz) We know we can make some great stuff, so why not?

>>12591981
>See some bluffing mixed in with the game play, not sure how to execute it though.

If you play it like poker, maybe you ante/bet damage? Folding due to a bluff would mean you take less than if you stayed in and lost legit.

>>12591703
>>12591736
>>12591766
It was a great experience for me, if only to see how not to throw it together and what not to keep in before fleshing out something usable. I remember not giving a damn about most of it (like the Indians and the mercs) and it showed (the Indians were easily the least focused group) but keeping them in because one guy kept pushing them or they weren't awful ideas or whatnot. At the end there was just too much to address and too few people actually willing to address it.

Unified Setting.

>>12592039
>how we should decide what to work on

ROLL BITCH ROLL

Someone must make a table, and we roll. We will decide this like fa/tg/uys!

>>12592045

I like the life ante but I see two issues with it, first you'd need to multiply your life score by at least ten for serious betting to take place and second I'm not sure how it would work out during non-combat encounters.

Still, life ante does sound like it can work...

>>12591580
>/tg/ project that went somewhere:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki//tg/_gets_shit_done
Here's a partial list that's bigger than your partial list.

Just mentioning Arthropocalypse. And I'll just leave this here:
http://arthropocalypse.forum-motion.com/general-f5/starter-thread-new-to-arthropocalypse-t17.htm

>>12591632
It did, but if someone starts it again, fuck if I'm not going to make it the main focus of my existence again.

I think maybe I'll avoid skipping classes and means and sleep to the extent that I did the first time, though.

Do you guys remember that fluff /tg/ came up with about the bottomless pit, edgerunners, edgedust etc etc?

>>12592078
http://1d4chan.org/wiki//tg/%27s_homebrews

Here's a partial list that's begger than your partial list.

>>12592073
The same idea for noncombat encounters. Fold to lose less, stay in to win or potentially lose more. Or at least for opposed encounters, where it's person to person, it's easily enough thought up.

>>12592102

Oh yeah that was sort of fun, kind of fizzled out due to PHYSICS DON'T WORK THAT WAY.

After a while it was hard to reconcile what we were trying to make and how it could conceivably work without retarded levels of "magic did it".

>>12592015
There was nothing wrong with unified setting besides an over abundance of the same kind of trolls that would call furfag on a loony toons thread that summer. Granted the Sergals were a bad choice for inspiration but fluff wise everything was magnificent and the Unified setting is one of the most extensive homebrew entries on 1d4chan

>>12592039

I like this idea. For Halloween, I'd like to make a simpler, poor man's WoD system.

>>12592096
>I think maybe I'll avoid skipping classes and means and sleep to the extent that I did the first time, though.

The highlight of my experience was on a sunday night at like 3 in the rain, perched under an overhang near my school building.

Why? My dorm internet had died, I could get internet there, and most other places on campus were closed at that hour.

>>12592102

Fuck yes I do. I did a little writefagging for it, as I recall. That was awesome. Jumping backwards and forwards in relative time as you plummet towards Something.

Know what else was awesome? ISLAMABAMA

>>12592109

Mmm, I see what you mean. Plus with character stats players will feel more empowered to take chances and make bluffs. It's one thing to go all in on a pair of deuces, another thing entirely to go all in on the five of hearts with two hearts to back you up against his one.

>>12592145
Necromancer constitutionalists? Dread Hickory? Hell yes.

>>12592124
I enjoyed working on the unified setting, but it was eventually made terrible through "YES THAT'S COOL THROW IT ON THE PILE"

This showed up in everything from races to religion (I swear to god if you don't shut up about Amatsueru or whatever wapenese bullshit I'll punch through the internet).

You know, I like the idea of a weekly Get Shit Done thread. Let's find some old settings, roll to decide, and put some honest work into them. Fuck the trolls, we're gonna be productive.

>>12592172
It's seen a considerable amount of refinement since then. It's been worked on at /tg/chan since it was first trolled off the boards here at the start of the summer before last.
http://www.tgchan.org/kusaba/tg/res/20.html

>>12592124
Zelda bosses, Horo, and Amaterasu as gods. Several furry races, including one swiped from Final Fantasy.

Nope nothing bad there at all.

>>12592172
>"YES THAT'S COOL THROW IT ON THE PILE"

As mentioned before, feature creep (and inability to just say NO to more shit added) is ultimately the thing that kills more /tg/ projects than anything else, except maybe apathy.

>>12592196
By old settings, you mean ones that are on here
>>12592106
but not on here
>>12592078
Because that's a damn good idea, if so.

OP here
I forgot to read the thread
did we come to a consensus?

>>12592200
Maybe I'll take a look at it someday. I dunno, I've kinda washed my hands of the thing.

>>12592210
Yep. It was at the point where someone said "hey this minor race from Warcraft was really cool let's throw them in" and people didn't tell him no that I just couldn't take it anymore.

>>12592207
Man, the Horo shit made me rage, but if you didn't like Bongo Bongo as a god, you're just nofunallowed.jpg.

What about that setting where the Door to Death was stolen away and now pirates are everywhere?
We worldbuilt the shit out of that.

>>12592251
Endless Isles?

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Endless_Isles

>>12592226
Yeah, the consensus was From Another Time, Another Land. It got fucking published! You should go buy a copy.

>>12592162

Necromancer Constitutionalists.
Demon-summoning Nazis.
Weird Tech Soviets.
Fae-"blessed" British.
Hypertech Australians.

And there was such potential for other countries too. Golem-creating Jewish resistance fighters. Ghostly Finnish guerillas. And fuck knows what we could have done with China, India, Japan and so on.

>>12592207
>Zelda bosses, Horo, and Amaterasu as gods. Several furry races, including one swiped from Final Fantasy.
In the current iteration, Amaterasu and Horo are not officially referenced. Amaterasu was originally a regional variation on a particular deity, I don't see what's wrong with that. It was hardly a major thing. Horo, I don't even remember being a god. Could be though, it's not like most gods in the Unified Setting are very important.

Bongo Bongo is still in in theory, though he's no longer very similar to his inspiration. The only thing that remains unchanged is his name and his rough appearance. I suppose his name could be changed. I'll see what people think about that in the Unified Setting thread on tgchan.

The race from final fantasy has been changed beyond being conceptually recognizable, although they remain physiologically mostly unchanged.
There are still lots of furry races in the sense that many of the races have fur, though.

>>12592259
I worked on this one :3
we had more planned, but we met some serious resistance about us continuing (mostly because it was golden neckbeard heading the project)
so I stopped making threads and talking about it
I don't know if he made any more threads

>>12592263
WHAAT!??

>>12592244
>"hey this minor race from Warcraft was really cool let's throw them in" and people didn't tell him no that I just couldn't take it anymore.
I don't even know what you're talking about here. Which I guess means that in practice, ignoring someone is more effective than saying no.

>>12592259
Man, I remember that. It was like... I was happy to see /tg/ doing shit, but the basic premise was so shitty.

i cant believe nobody has brought up the Ship of Humanity (1 AU), or Wall Quest, or battle for /tg/

>for delatent

no captcha, it's FOR THE EMPRAH! but you're getting closer.

>>12592316

The Ship is All.
The Ship Moves.

>>12592196
I've been thinking of (and did once or twice) a "What Are You Working On?" nightly thread. Kind of a place where people toss around ideas they're homebrewing and maybe people don't get shit done but discussion happens.

I also tried to write some Dyad stuff when the guy behind it disappeared, but I didn't get anywhere. Might have to retry that again, though Stripped Gears seems to be doing the same thing and they've gone public first. Hm.

Has /tg/ ever made a card game that isn't 4chan-based?

>>12592312
to be honest, I got the whole idea, although many did not understand
the setting was basically a pirate tale, where things like stealing death and immortality are possible, but then they decided to get too into it and try and make it make sense and it became shit
they should have just stuck to suspension of disbelief and left it at that and the players to not abuse it

>>12592316
That's because those weren't all that significant, compared to a lot of this other stuff. There's a fucking ton of little things like that, and neither of those are the biggest in any way that matters (although the ship's scale would perhaps have been amusing to mention).

>>12592355
There was occasional talk of some Science! card game and I've seen a few threads for a MtG knockoff. To my knowledge they didn't really get far.

>>12592355
Not that I'm aware of. And considering how BAD they are at designing cards (see: mtg custom card threads) I don't think I'd want to see them try.

>>12592277

I did a lot of the initial brainstorming and codifying for the Necromancer Constitutionalists, and I consider them my brainchild. Obviously that means nothing to anyone else because I'm just anonymous, but it still feels good whenever anyone else brings them up and goes, "shit, man, that was awesome." I helped a bit on the Nazi fluff, too, but my real passion was with the Constitutionalists. There were a ton of really cool ideas to come out of those threads, and some neat writefaggotry, too, although we seem to have lost one of the four threads to the winds of time.

>>12592379
>them
>excluding self
>posting on /tg/

>>12592379
Well, a self-contained game would presumably fare better than custom magic cards.

>>12592441
Except that /tg/ is also bad at crunch in general. Consider how long it took /tg/ to realize that in 3.5, vancian magic is overpowered, fighters, monks, and paladins are overpowered, and psionics and the tome of weaboo fighting magic are somewhere in the middle.

>>12592207
>Undead god unrelated to inspiration, not anywhere in the fluff, Removed from fluff. gb2/b/, Completely different from inspiration.

honestly most of your argument is that you can't tell the difference between an idea and the thing that inspired it. The rest is that you're a raving /b/tard and haven't actually read anything you're talking about.

>>12592476
>monks
>over powered

If you're any indication /tg/ IS shitty at crunch.

>>12591492
Trolling itself.

>>12592403
I am not bad at magic. The majority of tg players are (I don't mean ba in that they're casual players - there's nothing wrong with casual. I mean bad as in they don't understand the rules or how to balance shit).

So yes, them.

>>12592441
perhaps. But /tg/ is a lot better at fluff than crunch, an designing a cardgame is a lot of crunch work.

>>12592476
WTF? I realized that shit was broken well before 3.5 ever came out.

Also, 3.0 psionics were pretty absurd. Take on large groups of Paragon Pseudonatural Pit Fiends.

>>12592476
I'm a hopeless optimist for things I'd really like.

>>12592480
I think he probably was only there for the first few threads, which honestly were pretty much how he's describing it.

>>12592507
We all are. Or at least I am.

Crazy game idea, /tg/: one where each PC is a spaceship. Something like the Culture, only less high-power. Or maybe each PC is an AI on one ship that they build together during chargen.

>>12592480
Perhaps you don't remember the horoshit, but I do. Maybe it was just one persistent faggot, but hori was hawked to no fucking end in religion threads. LOOK IT'S THE DAUGHTER OF AMATSERU THERYRE BOTH WOLVES LOL SO CLEVER HORO IN ALL FIELDS. it was obnoxious as fuck. And unless it was one guy samefagging hardcore this idea had popular support.

>>12592486
Sorry, that was a typo born of not paying attention to what I was doing. I meant that fighters, monks and paladins are underpowered. The wrong thing just came out of my fingers.

>>12592486
He clearly meant "underpowered".

>>12592547
Well, Amaterasu is now The Sun, and doesn't really have any daughters, at least by the human mythology, which is the most thoroughly fluffed one. I guess the Wila could have a myth like that, though.

>>12592476

/tg/'s bad at crunch because it's far harder to collaborate on. With fluff, you can just sit around and throw ideas at each other until something sticks. Crunch really needs one or two people to dedicate themselves to for a while.

>>12592398

I know the feeling. I did most of the British fluff and writefagging, and toned it down. Obviously, the British were less distinctive and awesome than the Constitutionalists, but still, feels good man.

>Consider how long it took /tg/ to realize...
A *lot* of fa/tg/uys knew this from the start. It's just that, per usual, the D&D crowd has a group of fucking retards who are going to white knight the mechanics no matter the flaw. I STILL see people defending shit like the Fighter and the Monk on /tg/, but this has always been far less common than "goddamn those classes are awful".

>>12592540

The first idea's better. The second one would either be Everyone is John IN SPAAAAAACE, or just Eclipse Phase (except everyone is an Infomorph).

But I reckon playing a small squadron of ships could be pretty ace for a short campaign. Would the ships be ran by AI or by a single pilot, or maybe a whole crew?

I wish we could, like
COMBINE all our unfinished settings and make one awesome one

>>12592573

The British stuff was initially pretty out there, in that they didn't really have a unified theme and instead drew mainly on, "Hey, that sounds British, throw it on the pile," although that could have been other people. By the end, though, they felt a lot more cohesive and were one of the better-developed factions. Alas, I cannot claim credit for Andrew Jackson, Vampiric God of Central America, although I did coin the title Dread Hickory.

>>12592642
That's kind of what the Unified Setting was. It ended up just being a bigger unfinished setting.

>>12592624
>Would the ships be ran by AI or by a single pilot, or maybe a whole crew?
Kind of both. During character/ship creation you'd decide if Crew or Automation was dominant, with different pros and cons. So you could have a ship (which they'd be cruiser-sized or something like that; nothing tiny) with a large crew or one that's mostly drones and wiring.

The AI is in command of the ship and the crew/bots do its bidding. Not sure why fluff-wise, just because.

Of course this is all a half-baked "wouldn't it be neat?" idea.

>>12592653

Yeah, initially they were SO BRITISH and they FLEW AN AIRSHIP SUBMARINE and wanted to RELEASE THE BULLDOG SPIRIT. It was very silly. I think I can claim most of the responsibility for how they eventually turned out: Ensorcelled slaves of a possessed queen, struggling to keep their gigantic submarine floating and sailing round the world on the whims of the queen.

So, 'Shi/tg/ets done Saturday' is approved?

>>12592754
I'm not sure yet. Who's the /tg/ Secretary? We need to establish if there's a quorum first then hold a vote to determine the details of this event.

>>12592785
we're such a fucking awesome board

>>12592754
>approved

You need to fill out the paperwork first, and send me a check for $100. Processing fees and whatnot.

>golden neckbeard
Haven't seen him in a while. DId he get banned, or is he just off to buy some shirts?

>>12592914
he still posts every now and then
shirtless as ever

>>12592754
Sure. Details pending.

>>12592785
>Who's the /tg/ Secretary?
Whoever's available. The first person to make the thread come Saturday (since that's apparently the day for it). We need to establish if there's a quorum first
My suggestion: Nah. people can turn up and go with the wind.
>then hold a vote to determine the details of this event.
I suggest that everybody suggest something and rolls 1d100 until it looks like something is decided on, and then from there /tg/ gets shit done as per normal.

>>12592907
Already took care of that, should be arriving in the mail any day now.

But seriously, awesome idea, or awesome idea?

Heavy Mithril was pretty fucking awesome. Again, suffered from feature creep (no, your shitty band doesn't need mythologized), but the basic premise and the build on an existing ruleset made for ultradense fluff without that pesky crunch.

>>12592922
Saw him in a Star Wars thread a few months back. Never have I seen a greater case of unwarranted self-importance.

>>12592947
he's not SO bad
his hubris brings the quality of his posts from above average (as they would be without the trip) to just below average
far better than most people

>>12592947
>never have I seen Zhakuvaan
And that's just the first one that came to mind.

>>12592946
The thing with HM is that because of how everything works, you actually can throw everyone's favorite band in as necessary without changing that much about everything. It's basically built with feature creep in mind.

>>12592942
If you start the thread, they will (probably/hopefully/maybe) come.

>>12592754

I can't help but feel that this will get as much done as those Seven Day Creation Drives.

Which is to say, not much.

However, my pessimism has always been tempered with optimism, here's hoping it works out.

>>12593050
well, those seven day creation drives have two things working against them that this does not:
1. Magus O' Grady is a faggot
2. They require people to have their own ideas.

This one only has one problem that I see:
1. It may require people to familiarize themselves with an existing canon.

in these Saturdays I propose that we focus on one thing to work on and one thing only, to be voted on friday eve.
otherwise chaos will reign with every layman trying to get in his two pence.

>1. It may require people to familiarize themselves with an existing canon.

I can't imagine this being a huge problem. Nobody is going to devote their Saturday to working on something they don't care enough about to read a few pages of material first.

The Tiji Sector was quite big. I liked it, it was a nice little sector carved in the big old 40Kverse. And by nice little I mean terrifying and hilarious.

I liked that project. Maybe we should continue it for stuff like Rogue Trader and Death Watch.

>>12593092
I think it should be more like we figure out what we're working on on Saturday, and then work on it until everyone is tired of working on it. Which could be for most of Saturday or it could be all week.

I think there was that monster hunter thing that had like 10 people working on it, but died after the second thread.

Asidefrom that, most of it has already been mentioned.

>>12593136
I would advise not to extend work periods passed saturday.

>>12593074
You forgot
3. There is zero mention or advertising for them. I've heard of the thing, but never see any threads or details.

There's things like the 24hr-RPG design contest. Could make a few threads hyping that up to get people's ideas flowing.

It seems to me /tg/ needs to decide on the number of features in a setting before actually deciding on the features. The general consensus seems to be that feature creep is what kills /tg/ projects more than anything else. If that's the case, setting an arbitrary limit on the number of features before you even get started is probably the best way to deal with that.

If I'm not mistaken, /tg/ invented Wednesday. It only had a few dozen people involved initially, but I think it's had the biggest influence on the world...

>>12593193
Work periods shall be extended for as long as people are working on them. What do you think we should do, just randomly go "okay, everybody stop working" at midnight?

>>12593281
Oh yeah, it started as "Warhammer Wednesday", but now lots of people use it who don't even care about Warhammer.

The RP threads.

Sure, they didn't actually do anything, but they probably had the biggest participation at their height.

>>12593193
Machina Dei-er here: I'm going to have to mostly agree with that. Don't do what we did. Jesus, don't ever do that.

>>12593249
Maybe, but on a more...defined scale. It's pretty hard to say "X features, NO MORE" for anything, but if we break it down to "X per Y" with some allowances, that's more reasonable.

So if we're making a setting, we should agree on something like:

-1 to 3 continents.
-5 to 7 dominant races.
-7 to 9 countries with 10 to 12 major cities.

...with anything above the minimum only really put in if there's a strong argument for its inclusion (aka not HEY THIS IS COOL THROW IT IN).

Rules sets are going to be much, much trickier to throw into that rubric though.

>>12593249
The /tg/ projects that seem to go somewhere (if only for a while) are the ones where someone/some group goes "Okay, let's do this" and they take the ideas, put in the effort and come back to /tg/ saying "Look what we did."

/tg/ as a whole doesn't get much shit done. It's the individuals that do.

Dawn of Worlds games are pretty awesome. Has anyone ever used a DoW game as a setting for another game?

>>12593370
Guess what /tg/ is made out of?

>>12593415
A bunch of neckbearded manchildren with ADD?

>>12593415
Sure, but for all that people extol the collective /tg/ for getting shit done, that's horseshit, it's individual action rather than collective decisionmaking that does it. That's the point he's making.

>>12593362
Fellow Machina Dei-er here.
It was hard, I was just about dead by the end of it, and my grades were hurting, but damn if it wasn't fun.

Also, your idea of limitations is missing the point. Those aren't the things that expand significantly. (The exception to this rule s Tiji Sector).

>>12593103

What do you mean, "Huh"? I suppose you're too impressed with our grandeur to adequately express the depth of devotion to bear to this board, but the monosyllabic really does not suit you.

>>12593370
>/tg/ as a whole doesn't get much shit done. It's the individuals that do.
/tg/ at large is good at coming up with ideas and providing a springboard for inspiration. Basically, we play the role of muse.

>>12593447
It was fun, for sure, but exhausting and everything else got neglected for basically no real payoff.

What does expand, then? Those are just some I threw out for settings, I know it's going to look different for everything that isn't a setting.

Is it just me or is /tg/ fucking awesome today?

Seriously, this thread and a number of others have all been of the highest quality today. It's been a while since I've felt this engaged with the topics being discussed.

>>12593563
>Is it just me or is /tg/ fucking awesome today?

>>12593467
If I could draw I'd be drawing the most awkward muse right now.

>>12593595

Fat guy with a neckbeard wearing a toga playing a lyre?

>>12593482
Well, if we were to put in just another few days of system work, there would be a fucking awesome new game that people could play (though they'd have to make their own figures).

>>12593563
No, /tg/'s been pretty shit lately. Since the beginning of summer, which is bad. We should have gotten better by now. I reckon the Mod's to blame. Today is baseline mediocre for /tg/.
This thread shows some promise, I guess, but so far nothing has actually happened.

>>12593601
Something like that. Sitting across the room, yelling suggestions.

>>12593601
thelonius girth in a toga?
yes please.

>>12593620
What's the matter, angry you have to go elsewhere for your monstergirl porn?

>>12591492
Pardon me if I am super late on this one.

I don't know what your metric is, but putting AdEvas hat into the ring at 2 editions (with more on the way), an IRC with 30-40 people on at a time, and roughly 2000 confirmed downloads (+ mirrors).

Also: I support 'Shi/tg/ets done Saturday' .

>>12593620
It's not the mod's fault that /tg/ is too retarded to not make/bump troll threads.

I think it'd be interesting to give a premise and a time limit and see what different takes people have on that starter idea.

>>12593667
This'd be pretty awesome.

I think this is something important that /tg/ lacks: tradition. I don't mean avatarfaggotry and spam threads, I mean actual, legit, /tg/-related traditions.

Something that gives the board more cohesion.

>>12593651

Fucking FINALLY someone from the IRC gets on /tg/. I've been trying to get on the IRC for weeks now and I can't do it from any computer in my house, my university, or the nearest library.

Small nations stuff is done and eleven of twelve subcampaigns are done but a few need mechanical testing. Did what I could since they were done two weeks ago, but I'm not the most emchanical minded of men.

>>12593595
>>12593601

Several fa/tg/uys in togas with lyres fighting each other and shouting suggestions at their poor sod who they've chosen to enlighten.

Also, please don't let's turn this into a mod/"/tg/ is shit nowadays" discussion.

>>12593693
>Several fa/tg/uys in togas with lyres fighting each other and shouting suggestions at their poor sod who they've chosen to enlighten.
Fuck yes.

>>12593652
This, if anything the mod's been pruning back on the obviously awful threads. Not much, but still.

>>12593620
>if we were to put in just another few days of system work

It'd take a little more than that, all we have is basics (a good portion of it cribbed from WHFB, with some parts missing) and factions (kind of).

One thing we could do that would help is to decide what to cut from it, and throw in limitations as discussed earlier.

Giving Cutebolds fame you fools.

>>12593711
naw
that's one drawfag who just GETS SHIT DONE like it's his job
he has claim to a couple dozen really good persona reaching a few years back

>>12593692

Good lord! So thats where you have been!

Ill pass that along to the IRC.

>>12593711
>>12593728
Weaver is a paradox. His work is in /tg/'s very bones, and yet none of it is /tg/'s to claim.

>>12593744

Have to go now, but when I get the chance I'll pastebin the stuff and put the links in the thread. Kept this lot organised after I kept losing crap from keepign it seperate before.

>>12593728

he did a quest awhile back.... that seems to be about it.

I don't know, other drawfags have done just as much work, and basketgangster, :P, makes a shitton of art that happens to get reposted, as does slants and liar and other tg drawfags that I can't remember.

Bump for Shi/tg/ets Done Saturday awareness

>>12593814
Seconding. I think the problem that kills a lot of /tg/ homebrews (not only potentially the one I'm working on, but every other one I've seen and been involved with in the past) is that they end up with a core group of people working on them, and nobody else willing to go over all of the old threads. So, if one or two original members quit, they never get replaced and the project dies. Putting all of them in one thread could really help kill this problem, in my opinion.

>>12593807

He did a quest that was so massively followed and influential it singlehandedly turned quests acceptable on /tg/. It also turns out he's behind at least three or four of the names that used to be notorious for delivering decent OC back in the day.

The impact may be hard to see now that most of what he did got absorbed into /tg/ general, and because he was trying to be relatively anonymous about it, but he's done more than any three names of /tg/ for the board.

I like the idea of being given a topic/idea/whatever, then having a week to make -something- for it, and then everyone shares what they made. It can be a story, mechanics, random ideas, art, whatever.

If it turns into a legit project, great, but it's more about just...getting shit done.

>>12593896
Just read the damn thread

you know what this sounds like, guys?
it sounds like a new years resolution
and we all know how those turn out

>>12593866

Ruby Quest was amazing for me on a conceptual level. I didn't participate, but parsing through the mythos and contemplating the process of running a quest thread was interesting as hell.

Its like a form of roleplaying/puzzle game that can only be played on an image board. Trying to explain it outside of that context is nearly impossible.

>>12593925
DO IT ANYWAY FAGGOT

>>12593899
Elegan/tg/entlemen of the board, this is the truth of the matter. This post, right fucking here.

It has commonly been considered a myth on /tg/ that we get shit done.

Laziness is at our doorstep, and thinks it can push us into our chairs. It is already gloating; it can taste its victory. But what it fails to see is that we will make this our last 'fuck it, I'm done.'

No, really, fuck the speech, I'm done. Let's go do something else now.

At the very least, wouldn't it be a good idea to have a weekly "progress check" thread for any ongoing stuff?

Judging by what I've read in this thread, the more cohesive stuff is wrangled by smaller teams in their own free time. It might be a good sort of motivation to have a weekly show and tell session to keep the ball rolling on long running crunch sessions.

Come up with a clever name for it and some sort of template for the OP post. Then someone (anyone) can start a thread on a Saturday so people can check in with what they've worked on, or just to say they're still alive but didn't do any work that week.

>>12593925
Get the fuck out you lazy faggot.

>>12593968
It's got a name: 'Shi/tg/ets Done Saturday.'

>>12593968
Or maybe if anyone feels like talking about what they're doing and hearing what others are, they make a thread whenever they want?

It's this "let's make rules, guys!" that kills this kind of thing. People just trying to delay the moment when everyone realizes that nobody else is willing to put any effort forward.

>>12593979

'Shi/tg/ets Done Saturday' implies a certain level of collaboration. Collaboration is an option, but I was envisioning more of a "What did you create this week, /tg/?" thread. Private projects, group projects, whatever the hell.

>>12593968
we'd need a picture, then
I might make a place holder for the time being

>>12593968
I find this prospect most intriguing. I propose every Saturday we have two threads, excepting the first one, wherein:
The first thread being a collection of what achievments have been done in a project.
The second thread being the beginning of a new one.

I think this has potential. But what would our first project be?

>>12594002
Well, way I see it 'Shit's getting done' doesn't roll off the tongue.

If we go with 'Shi/tg/ets Done Saturday', we can make it the weekly update thread. It doesn't explicitly imply collaboration on a huge level like everyone thinks, but still, shit's getting done. Just like we like it.

>>12594025
Starting the damn thread come Saturday.

>>12594040
Posting in it, too.

>>12594072
We'd better come up with some rules for posting to make sure things go smoothly.

OK, THIS UNTIL SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING BETTER
NOW SOMEONE DO SOMETHING BETTER

>>12594040
Yeah, but we're gonna have to have something to start it with. Something accessible would be good.

>>12594086

BETTER THAN STRANGELOVE ROUNDTABLE? UNPOSSIBLE!

>>12594081
>rules for posting
Hahahaha. That's absolutely adorable.

Just try to stay on topic as best you can, and bring your A game.

What time should it get started?

>>12594100

I think he meant in terms of content. Not the starter image.

>>12594081
No.

This just reminds me of awesome ideas I've seen here that nowhere. like Manfred and Umbubu and particularly The Sea of the Dead.

This thread made me a sad panda.

About that "saturday list" i propose that 3-5 people have the power only to create those threads. to keep it official. And to make the thread if no one does, and bump it, be it necessary.
I say we organize those fa/tg/uys.
To apply, you have to:
-be available on most saturdays
-keep a track of the threads and sintetize them for the next week
- collaborative, and with some experience on /tg/ (say at least 1 year, 2 years, the more the merrier)
-Good enough grammar to not confuse "your" and "you're" at the least.


And, finally, the mods should give us a hand with this. At least making the weekly thread sticky.

>>12594296
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

>>12594284
You mean this? There was a whole 2nd thread about it and a 1d4chan article.

>>12594296
Only posters with tripcodes should be allowed to post so we can cut down on trolling. The mods could ban/delete posts without trips.

>>12594344
well, that could work too. I mean, its easier than break the HERO system, but it could work.
I still say we have more than just 1 person. And we have to set up a concrete hour of the day.

I'm not particularly skilled, but you have my axe.

>>12591632
Mosaic, which by now can probably be considered dead. (I miss Earthflame.)

>>12593752
As well as the Internet in general. He's admitted to being the guy behind Boxdog, and there's notable (albeit circumstantial) evidence for him also being EFG.

>>12594081
That would end very, very badly. Anyone who's been to a /co/ drawthread will know what I'm talking about.

It'd work much better to call them "suggestions" or "recommendations" or something like that. Some statement to the effect of "here's what we're going for, and participants are encouraged to [whatever]".

>>12594344
Man. Don't worry about rules. Just let shit happen, and bring stuff worth discussing.

>>12594392
No we need to be firm on this. If we slack off or don't show a spine, nothing's going to get done.

Now who wants to email Moot and get him to give us mod help?

>>12594344
this is derp
I agree with thread 'guidelines' though

>>12594433
we don't need mods
we're perfectly able to get this done on our own
just because it isn't stickied doesn't mean it is any less official

>>12594433
>Now who wants to email Moot and get him to give us mod help?

well, if i recall correctly the e-mail of moot was leaked once. No that i remember it or i gave a fuck about it, and probably it never happened, but im just saying...

>>12594466
Agreed. A general guideline is not a bad idea. SUPAR REGULATION is just a bad idea. If nothing else, the thread can be used to bounce ideas off fa/tg/uys.

so who wants to help compile a list of dead or forgotten /tg/ homebrews?
the list on 1d4chan isn't close to complete

>>12594484
its to prevent us from slacking off and not paying attention to it. Most /tg/ proyects found their end on the apathy and difficulty to organize. A sticky thread would make things easier to remember and continue.

trolling itself.

>>12594284
I remember Manfred & Umbubu. It wasn't homebrew, it wasn't homebrew, it was incredibly racist (and somewhat hilarious) writefaggotry for some guy who wanted stuff for his CoC character.

>>12594344
>>12594433
Hold on loosely
But don't let go
'Cause if you cling too tightly
You're gonna lose control

>>12594520
>>12592487
Consensus!

>>12594564
couldn't let it end on this picture

>>12594668
thanks bro

So yeah, Shi/tg/ets Done Saturday. Looking forward to it. What all are you fa/tg/uys planning to work on/show off?

>>12594668
see, /tg/ starts with a previsible trolling when we get 100 or such replies. We have to keep that in mind if we want the creative saturdays to work

>>12594682
If I remember and see the thread, probably going to ramble about not-Culture game or something.

>>12594682
i have a pretty big setting to show, well, lots. But im lazy as fuck and migth not post them. But then again, i migth actually post them.

>>12594344
Shit like this makes me want to troll the fuck out of your thread now.

>>12594488
Silly anon, mootykins email is common knowledge.

I think my vote would be for improving or starting real rules for The Fall (setting in the bottomless pit)
Simply because I spent a lot of time helping in the fluff thread for that and I've always wanted to see it done

>>12594770
OP here
I let thread live because I'm not a COMPLETE asshole
if it is no longer necessary, I would prefer to delete it
unless someone wants to archive it for future reference or something

>>12594344

I don't think that I could be more opposed to this if I tried. Christ, why are people trying to drag mods into this? This is stupid. This whole thing is stupid. If you're too ADD-ridden and puerile to be able to do anything without a mod holding your hand and autobanning anyone without a tripcode and enforcing an entirely arbitrary set of rules, you're too opposed to the creative flow of ideas to possibly design anything of any merit whatsoever.

>>12594832
We are all in awe of your generosity, OP-sama. May you have a long and fruitful life.

>>12594890
I try.

>>12593370
>/tg/ as a whole doesn't get much shit done. It's the individuals that do.

This.

Case in point, Wild Cards.

And by the way, I'll freelance/interject on "Shi/tg/ets done saturday". I probably won't be able to come up with a major system, since I've got a Wildcards game running on saturdays.

I archived the thread as a reminder of our resolve gentlemen

Do not dispoint.

>>12594682
Been working on a tabletop version of fire emblem for months now, released it once to /tg/ already. Will post the updated version on Saturday for the thread.

>>12595004
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12591492/

forgot the link

Maybe we should have an IRC or a way to find the thread once it happens? I'd hate to have eight different threads, each with two people in them. Is there a generic /tg/-wide room?

>>12595014

That kind of stuff usually resolves itself, though we could probably meet up on suptg's if they have one

>>12595014
Yeah, just use #suptg or something.

>>12595007
I now have something to look forward to on Saturday.

>>12595014
I don't think there's any danger of more than a couple people wanting to take charge of a thread.

>>12594284
>Manfred and Umbubu

Hey, I was the author-protagonist that posted that thread!

I ended up dying heroically by charging a rampaging Shoggoth with an elephant gun and my trusty sidekick at my side (as, due to Sanity loss, I believed I WAS Manfred and that my friend's character was Umbubu).

Alas, I died in the Shoggoth's jaws, but my dynamite-filled vest blew the son of a bitch back where he came from.

>>12595043

I now have something to look forward to. My life has meaning once again!

>>12595087
I desperately want to see examples of your delusional Manfred Slapworthy antics.

I wrote several of the manfred and Umbubu snippets, including the one about the dastardly dutchman and fighting a chinaman in an alley.

behold!

>>12595544
PRODUCTIVITY!

>>12593968

As a member of one of the groups that works on things in their free time (NUtopia, yes it's still alive, if on life support), I can lend some credence to this.

Also, regarding the whole 'whose thread is whose' issue, why not combine the two ideas? Central IRC room, collecting and organizing threads for various settings--NUtopia (link), AdEva (link), ect....

>>12595757
That's an interesting idea, but the Getting Shit Done Council will need to hold a meeting and determine it's worth in inspiring productivity.

>>12595820
>>12593968
Just do it in the same thread. Inspire new ideas, encourage ongoing ones.

>>12594002
That's basically what the creation drives are. Collaboration is the whole fucki9ng point.

>>12594392
Man, Mosaic. That was pretty damn good. It was one of the few homebrews where I liked the system much more than I liked the fluff.

Also, Weaver has claimed EFG finally. There's a list of all his recurring characters on his FA.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4627462

>>12594966
Hey, by the way, your system for that was really good. If you would do similar stuff for other /tg/ homebrews, that would be pretty awesome too.

bamp/