| Thread | Title | Description | Tags | Added | Score |
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| October 2007 |
| 757447 | Repo Men, a campaign for Wushu | A nifty game idea for Wushu inspired by Hellraiser and Dead Like Me | wushu, game ideas | 2007-10-31 | 2 | |
| August 2008 |
| 2326685 | favorite unused game ideas | More random game seeds, most of the pretty good. | game ideas | 2008-08-12 | 0 | |
| April 2011 |
| 14704581 | New World, New Powers | Fa/tg/uys discuss a setting where the five most powerful countries suddenly disappeared. | world building, ideas, game ideas, Awesome | 2011-04-25 | 24 | |
| 14707433 | New Worlds, New Powers 2 | Continuation of discussing a world where Russia, Britain, America, China and India suddenly disappeared | world building, ideas, game ideas, Awesome | 2011-04-25 | 14 | |
| May 2011 |
| 14827865 | Portal-inspired-D&D | A brainstorming thread to bring some of the Portal games to a D&D game/setting. Special guest appearances by Wheatley and Cave Johnson. | D&D, game, game ideas, awesome, funny, ideas, brainstorming, Portal, Portal 2, Cave Johnson | 2011-05-06 | 15 | |
| October 2011 |
| 16491215 | Fish out of Water | Campaign Idea: A PT boat gets sent to a fantasy world, cue survival horror/logistics/the odyssey. | game ideas, fantasy, modern, getting shit done, | 2011-10-02 | 12 | |
| 16511386 | The Editors: A Setting In Progress | OP has an idea about sending agents in to remove Mary Sues from canon settings. A few like-minded Anons later, a meta-fanfiction setting is born. | game design, world building, discussion, planes, Mary Sue, settings, metafiction, game ideas, | 2011-10-04 | 22 | |
| 16529282 | The Editors II | We continue world-building our freshly popularized meta-fanfiction campaign setting. | game design, world building, discussion, planes, Mary Sue, settings, metafiction, game ideas | 2011-10-06 | 10 | |
| November 2011 |
| 16842696 | Roman Legion Setting | Anon asks some questions for a Roman game. A pleasant, interesting discussion ensues. | Rome, game ideas, question | 2011-11-05 | 7 | |
| December 2011 |
| 17183731 | CRAB NICHOLSON'S EXTREME SLEEPOVER ULTIMATE BOARDGAME SURVIVAL ADVENTURE | Drunken game design, or divine inspiration? You decide. | game ideas, game design | 2011-12-12 | 30 | |
| 17257411 | Organ Construct Bard | Someone posts that their bard became augmented by a group artificer and is now part organ, discussion about a necrobard followed and many good ideas were shared. | Bard, character, Necromancer, artificer, game ideas, villain, dirge, music, funny, D&D, construct | 2011-12-18 | 6 | |
| 17281176 | Hell on Highwater | /tg/ creates a Colonial Era High Fantasy setting. Highwater an adventure on the seas | Game Ideas, Fantasy | 2011-12-20 | 8 | |
| 17316672 | The Editors III | Continued development of the setting, incorporating elements from /tg/ Meta Quest. The Cold War with the TSAB is lightly touched upon, and relations with the other Meta-aware factions. | game design, world building, discussion, planes, Mary Sue, settings, metafiction, game ideas, Editors, The Editors | 2011-12-24 | 8 | |
| 17379345 | Artemis 11 (or 'Help me design Call of Cthulhu In Space') | OP asks for help fleshing out his concept of a CoC setting in the far future, where humanity has colonised other planets and Earth has been quarantined due to the End Times. The Carter Family owns Silver Key Incorporated and produces gates for long-distance transference, mankind is getting ready to venture toward space and the centre of the universe, and more. | Call of Cthulhu, space, Artemis 11, horror, setting, game ideas, Cthulhu, Lovecraft, Mythos | 2011-12-31 | 6 | |
| January 2012 |
| 17587656 | Low Fantasy Logging | OP describes a game where a king orders players to build a road through a vast and mysterious forest. Campaign planning and historical discussion ensues. | game ideas, game design, fantasy, road, forest | 2012-01-19 | 7 | |
| 17649217 | Fallout Commonwealth Explained | OP wants help writing about the Commonwealth in Fallout; /tg/ obliges with everything ranging from the Boston Marathon to Street Sharks. | Fallout, game ideas, Awesome, setting | 2012-01-24 | 3 | |
| March 2012 |
| 18421234 | Hat Based RPG System | Efforts at making a hat-based system after a GM's drunken rambling. | game ideas, fuck yeah | 2012-03-23 | 21 | |
| April 2012 |
| 18837867 | Magical Girl Dystopia | Magical Girls take over and stunt human emotions by making everything into happy land. Rebels use gene therapy to become monsters and fight them. Fluuuuuuuuuffff | fluff, magical girls, setting, game ideas, writefag, getting shit done, dystopia, world building, discussion, magicpunk, 1984, mahou shoujo, gene therapy | 2012-04-24 | 21 | |
| May 2012 |
| 19085077 | Magical Girl Dystopia III | More fleshing out about the girls and the resistance | fluff, magical girls, setting, game ideas, writefag, getting shit done, dystopia, world building, discussion, magicpunk, 1984, mahou shoujo, gene therapy | 2012-05-14 | 5 | |
| 19119894 | Magical Girl Dystopia IV | The setting is solidified, ideas are developed, and issues from the last thread are snipped in the bud. | fluff, magical girls, setting, game ideas, writefag, getting shit done, dystopia, world building, discussion, magicpunk, 1984, mahou shoujo, gene therapy | 2012-05-18 | 2 | |
| 19236392 | Berserk Homebrew | /tg/ does a little homebrewing, taking inspiration from several settings, but mainly Berserk | Berserk, Homebrew, game ideas, homebrew setting | 2012-05-25 | 8 | |
| July 2012 |
| 20005554 | Elven biomechanics - theorizing the elf as brachiating arboreal humanoid | Re-designing the classical elf to biologically, culturally, and metally correspond to their tree-loving ways, a group of elegan/tg/entlemen reaches some unexpected and most startling conclusions. | game ideas, elf, concept, world building, ape, biology, science | 2012-07-23 | 31 | |
| August 2012 |
| 20193011 | Emulsiworld | Anon describes a dream where mankind is drawn to a new planet through portals on Earth. There they find a hollow but still living tree where they make a new home: Hope. The planet, as big as Jupiter, is host to other such trees, some with other splinter evolutions of mankind, at war with the Keepers, a race of machines which cull mankind's divergent evolutions until extinction. | Homebrew, original content, crunchless fluff, science fiction, post-apocalypse, Hope, arcology, game ideas, world building, The Archivist | 2012-08-05 | 17 | |
| November 2012 |
| 21523416 | If Lies To Children Were True | There's no sex, you can make boys with snips, snails and puppy-dog tails, and stepping on a crack will break your mother's back. More neat suggestions inside. | game ideas, scary, creepy, humor, setting, worldbuilding, childhood, myths | 2012-11-11 | 18 | |
| 21565163 | Chess RPG General | Quintessential ChRPG general thread, useful for newbs | game ideas, chess | 2012-11-13 | 10 | |
| 21681224 | The Sphere RPG concept | Order collapses in a vast Dyson Sphere; as an explorer, travel across the ruins in search of wealth, technology and adventure. | Dyson Sphere, game ideas, roleplay, World Building | 2012-11-21 | 2 | |
| December 2012 |
| 22257720 | /tg/ gets depressed | OP inquires about how to roleplay depression. /tg/ reveals all its angst, misery and emptiness in response. | depression, depressing, sad, melancholy, oh god what, why, roleplay, game ideas, discussion | 2012-12-29 | 12 | |
| March 2013 |
| 23839388 | Multiple Histories of the Terran Empire | Discussion of 'space race' settings
Alternate-history fluff based on extended space race beginning during the Cold War (Terrance-Fuchida Effect) | game ideas, space, fluff, cold war | 2013-03-23 | 2 | |
| 23957561 | Lesbian Schoolgirls: The RPG | OP gives his idea for a Yuru Yuri themed PvP RPG; /tg/ runs with it | Game Ideas, Homebrew, Yuru Yuri | 2013-03-30 | 16 | |
| April 2013 |
| 23980235 | Lesbian Schoolgirls: The RPG 2 | First draft of rules PDF posted, suggestions and discussion follows. | Game Ideas, Homebrew, Lesbian Schoolgirls, Yuru Yuri | 2013-04-01 | 12 | |
| 24089431 | Bioshock Zeerust: aka Progress City | Walt Disney teams up with the disgraced Oppenheimer to build the city of tomorrow on the moon. Hilarity and sploicing ensues. | game ideas | 2013-04-07 | 18 | |
| May 2013 |
| 24969934 | Fantasy Geography Collaboration | /tg/ comes up with ideas for fantastic geographic locations. | geography, worldbuilding, game ideas, ideas, world building | 2013-05-23 | 5 | |
| June 2013 |
| 25227267 | X-Com Tabletop Ideas | OP asks for help with running a tabletop rpg based on X-COM. /tg/ delivers. | X-com, ideas, sci-fi, game ideas, rpg | 2013-06-05 | 6 | |
| July 2013 |
| 25971010 | The Armoured Village | OP proposes a setting where everyone is always covered, and /tg/ works its magic. What results is a village where absolutely everyone wears full plate armour all the time as a result of a contagious curse. Better than it sounds. | game ideas, world building, armour, village, worldbuilding | 2013-07-13 | 17 | |
| 26285707 | SRR modding thread 1 | First brainstorm session for a /tg/ Shadowrun Returns Mod | game ideas shadowrun | 2013-07-29 | 1 | |
| August 2013 |
| 26937160 | Quirks of flying an old, shitty ship | Small touches to make an old ship more... lived in. | Traveller, game ideas, roleplay, space ships | 2013-08-31 | 66 | |
| September 2013 |
| 27266205 | Clashworld | First 100 posts were canon lore for a setting, which steamrolled into something with potential. | game ideas, game design, original content, /tg/ | 2013-09-17 | 17 | |
| 27307576 | Clashworld 2 | The first thread started the world. Now we're making it bigger, better, and easier to read. | clashworld, game ideas, game design, original content, /tg/ | 2013-09-19 | 8 | |
| 27432534 | Outline for MMORPG PnP RPG | How to simulate MMORPG in a PnP game. Possibly as a subset in a modern game. | game ideas, homebrew | 2013-09-26 | 1 | |
| October 2013 |
| 27488162 | All-children ADVENTURE party ideas | OP asks if an all-kids adventuring party would be acceptable. /tg/ jumps on the idea and awesome ensues. | campaign ideas, campaign, Children, Adventure, loli, /tg/_gets_shit_done, I wish to be the little girl, Monsters, Digimon, Game Ideas, little fears | 2013-10-02 | 16 | |
| 27938758 | Abandoned Spacestation Ideas | /tg/ gets together to brainstorm ideas on stuff to find in a space derelict. Both spooky and hilarious answers follow. | Traveller, Stars Without Number, Diaspora, space, game ideas, sci-fi | 2013-10-26 | 10 | |
| November 2013 |
| 28494871 | Designing a fucking board game | Anon collates a bunch of stuff together to show TG how to make a boardgame. | original content, tutorial, teaching, game, game design, design, developer, game ideas | 2013-11-27 | 20 | |
| 28566866 | African Myths and Legends (Fantasy) | What started as a image dump becomes an in-depth discussion of African myth and legend. | Africa, game ideas, myth, legend | 2013-11-30 | 5 | |
| February 2014 |
| 30026800 | On Hell. | /tg/ has a discussion on various visions and versions of hell they use in tabletop RPGs. | hell, campaign, original content, discourse, setting, development, game ideas, tabletop | 2014-02-05 | 5 | |
| 30040391 | Imperial ship quirk brainstorming thread | Ideas to make 40K ships more unique settings | 40K, ships, game ideas | 2014-02-06 | 8 | |
| April 2014 |
| 31328439 | Party Beginnings | Anons discuss interesting, memorable, unique, and awesome beginnings to roleplaying campaigns. GMs steal ideas for their games. | game ideas, roleplay, game, DM, GM, awesome, /tg/, campaign, Campaign, ideas, Roleplay, original content, brainstorm, getting shit done, brainstorming, roleplaying, Game Design, | 2014-04-08 | 3 | |
| 31346570 | Necromancer Family | A player seeks to play a necromancer, but fears becoming an edgemeister. The thread turns for the better, when suddenly... | game ideas, writefaggotry, lore ideas, fluff, original content, necromancer, necromancers, family | 2014-04-09 | 39 | |
| May 2014 |
| 31907778 | Let's Build a Town | /tg/ produces a town of numerous eccentric and original NPCs. Excellent if you like to steal ideas from the internet! | game ideas, awesome | 2014-05-05 | 7 | |
| July 2014 |
| 33777600 | Inn of the World | What would happen if an empress replaced all the inns in the empire with one that links to towns via portals. | game ideas, building, fluff, fantasy, Awesome, setting, inn | 2014-07-31 | 3 | |
| August 2014 |
| 33920053 | Eight-word Hooks | Fa/tg/uys channel their inner Hemingway. Story ideas ensue. | Adventure Hooks, Game Ideas | 2014-08-07 | 2 | |
| November 2014 |
| 36261395 | The Edge Chronicles Setting | OP's question of whether or not anyone's used the Edge Chronicles in their games gives rise to a brainstorm of setting ideas | Edge Chronicles, Game Ideas, Roleplaying, Setting | 2014-11-23 | 5 | |
| January 2015 |
| 37173534 | Adjective Dungeon | A new puzzle dungeon crawler where your heroic characters can include prostitutes, livestock, fresh fruit, snowmen, babies, quadruple amputees, racist caricatures, and much more. Instead of stats your characters have random adjectives assigned to them, and instead of monsters, your party has to accomplish bizarre, menial, and seemingly easy tasks. | game ideas, character creation, game, game design, Adjective Quest | 2015-01-05 | 1 | |
| February 2015 |
| 37749134 | Most unappealing campaign pitch possible? | Top fucking kek. Highlights include a campaign where your adventurers have to file paperwork for everything. | game ideas, campaign, design, fluff, funny, awesome | 2015-02-01 | 8 | |
| 37847707 | Blacksmiths daughter | Discussion on what plot hooks(sometimes literally) there are using a blacksmiths daughter | discussion, game ideas | 2015-02-07 | 5 | |
| May 2015 |
| 40149220 | Fantasy Eurovision | Every year, a grand pageant is held where each of the twenty-seven kingdoms send a single talented bard to represent them on the world stage. This contest, while supposedly held in the spirit of unity, solidarity and building bridges between the kingdoms is in actual fact highly corrupt, fractious and riven with political intrigue and tactical voting.
The PCs are tasked by their government (who are responsible for hosting the tournament this year) to make sure that this year there is no foul play and the event is not marred by the usual politicking, particularly of the smaller, North-Eastern nations. | Eurovision, Game Ideas, Fantasy, Humour, Humor | 2015-05-26 | 2 | |
| July 2015 |
| 41239957 | Matryoshka Partition - Transforming Robot Homebrew | Follow-up thread of developing a setting for a human/transforming robotic partner styled game. Rules and system being decided upon. Further elaboration. | Matryoshka Partition, mecha, game mechanics, game design, game ideas, robots, transformers, homebrew | 2015-07-17 | 5 | |
| 41401053 | Matryoshka Partition - Transforming Robot Homebrew #4 | Follow-up thread of developing a setting for a human/transforming robotic partner styled game. Rules and system being finalized. Worldbuilding | Matryoshka Partition, mecha, game mechanics, game design, game ideas, robots, transformers, homebrew | 2015-07-23 | 2 | |
| 41466873 | Matryoshka Partition - Transforming Robot Homebrew #5 | Developing a homebrew game and setting focused on human/transforming mecha partner. Crunch and fluff development. | Matryoshka Partition, mecha, game mechanics, game design, game ideas, robots, transformers, homebrew | 2015-07-26 | 1 | |
| August 2015 |
| 41582827 | Matryoshka Partition - Transforming Robot Homebrew | Follow-up thread of developing a setting for a human/transforming robotic partner styled game. Thread didn't last long. Minor rules noted. Awaiting anon's playnotes. | Matryoshka Partition, mecha, game mechanics, game design, game ideas, robots, transformers, homebrew | 2015-08-04 | 3 | |
| July 2018 |
| 60774398 | Baseball Samsara: 108 Stitches | Baseball and Buddhism combined | Baseball, Samsara, 108 Stitches, Buddhism, game ideas, setting | 2018-07-12 | 3 | |
| September 2018 |
| 61741595 | Birth of gods | A new god generator was made. Anons test it out. | Game Ideas, World Building | 2018-09-03 | 7 | |
| 61752507 | Birth of gods part 2 | We continue the thread from where we left off. worldbuilding ensues. | Game Ideas, World Building | 2018-09-04 | 1 | |
| 61772790 | Crafting a Setting 1 | As Anons finish god creation, they start on the setting at large. | Game Ideas, World Building | 2018-09-05 | 2 | |
| January 2020 |
| 70392912 | /tg/ talks about a fake wargame | /tg/ complains about the meta of a fictional wargame and stumbles into a neat setting in the process. Orpheus is OP. | wargame, worldbuilding, game ideas, brainstorming | 2020-01-12 | 7 | |
| August 2020 |
| 74256898 | Dark Catholic Inspired World Building | Anon played Blasphemous and got inspired to start world building and run a game. A bunch of other anons help out too. | World Building, Story Ideas, Game Ideas, Homebrew, Setting, Grimdark, Creepy, Fantasy | 2020-08-11 | 9 | |
| September 2020 |
| 74696024 | How do you do low-fantasy wuxia/fantasy-china? | Anons discuss wuxia/xianxia. Good ideas on what makes the setting tick | world building, ideas, game ideas | 2020-09-05 | 1 | |
| November 2020 |
| 75965712 | /tg/ Accidentally Creates a Sci Fi Setting | /tg/ rants about a setting that doesn't exist accidentally creating an interesting system and setting. | Sci-Fi, writefaggery, game ideas | 2020-11-19 | 10 | |
| 75981360 | /tg/ Accidentally Creates a Sci Fi Setting #2 | /tg/ accidentally creates a sci fi setting/game | Sci-Fi, writefaggery, game ideas, FUN | 2020-11-19 | 7 | |
| 76018207 | Distant Broken Stars #1 | Follow-up to "/tg/ Accidentally Creates a Sci Fi Setting #2", now with a name, Lego and 3D models | Distant Broken Stars, Sci-Fi, Writefaggery, settings, game ideas, ship models | 2020-11-22 | 5 | |
| December 2020 |
| 76170625 | Distant, Broken Stars General #3 | /tg/ continues to work on a setting/game it accidentally created. Now with concept art, subfactions and rule prototypes. | Distant Broken Stars, Sci-Fi, Writefaggery, settings, game ideas, ship models | 2020-12-01 | 6 | |
| 76386969 | The World of Transperentia | A new campaign setting is started as a trope filled joke, but unintentionally does every trope better than any modern author. | game ideas, awesome, campaign, writefaggotry, world building, homebrew, character concepts, getting shit done, brainstorming | 2020-12-11 | 12 | |
| 76276813 | Distant, Broken Stars General 4 | Tg continues work on the setting/rules of a (currently) fictional wargame | Distant Broken Stars, Sci-Fi, Writefaggery, settings, game ideas, ship models | 2020-12-13 | 4 | |
| 76408976 | Distant, Broken Stars General 5 | Tg continues work on DBS, expanding on the Ashen and the Avar, and setting up a 1d4chan page | Distant Broken Stars, Sci-Fi, Writefaggery, settings, game ideas, ship models | 2020-12-22 | 5 | |
| January 2021 |
| 76580570 | Distant, Broken Stars General 6 | Shorter thread hashing out some of the less detailed factions. | Distant Broken Stars, Sci-Fi, Writefaggery, settings, game ideas, ship models | 2021-01-04 | 2 | |
| 76673101 | Distant, Broken Stars General 7 | Another DBS thread focusing on rules rather than lore as anons get ever closer to producing something playable | Distant Broken Stars, Sci-Fi, Writefaggery, settings, game ideas, ship models | 2021-01-13 | 1 | |
| 76931891 | Distant, Broken Stars General 8 | More work is done on the setting of DBS, which is starting to become a little lovecraftian | Distant Broken Stars, Sci-Fi, Writefaggery, settings, game ideas, ship models | 2021-01-26 | 2 | |
| April 2021 |
| 78526722 | Avatar: Battle of the Four Nations | What if there were a wargame for Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra? | Avatar, airbender, wargame, game ideas | 2021-04-07 | 3 | |
| 78644134 | Let's Design a Dungeon | /tg/ fills a dungeon map with silly rooms. | map, fantasy, game ideas, D&D, DnD, RPG, rpg | 2021-04-20 | 2 | |
| 78743128 | /tg/ makes an industrial horror setting | /tg/ makes a grim setting about giant factories and the degradation of humanity by industry. | game ideas, horror, industrial, /tg/ | 2021-04-24 | 8 | |