So, right now we have Psuedo's Dawnlands thread, David R.'s Water Worlds thread, the collaborative One Hex at a Time thread, and my Metal Earth thread. Thre are probably a few more too, that have been lost in time.
I think that this stuff should have a home of it's own. It might encourage more cool stuff, and it would give visitors to the site something nifty to look at, all in place.
What do you think?

Well I voted yes. Since Forge talk is OT, I figure whatever design talk can safely take place on the main gaming forum. I mean I don't know the figures but I don't think Design gets a lot of play. I think it would be cool to have a settings only forum.

Regards,
David R

I have bad experience with forumbrew settings... usualy, they end up being total failure, because people who are working on them simply "lose interest" or "burn out"... and then, it looks stuipid, if you have 3 or more ubnfinished settings in settingcooking forum...

I voted no...

Undecided, not voting yet.

I assume in most cases, it's just one person posting an ongoing "notebook" of setting design, with feedback from others. I raise that because the alternative of a collaborative setting is IMO pretty doomed. I remember a long time ago on Usenet people tried to do a shared setting called Tabolport; it didn't seem to get very far.

Aside from that, the arguments pro and con are reasonable. I'm leaning pro since unfinished settings just sink down the list and if you have at least one active setting, the subforum is plenty alive.

I wouldn't see why Design&Development would need to be split between Homebrew and D&D-Homebrew (only commercial stuff as from Clash, Bill, Brett etc. + pure rules stuff + diverse stuff as conversions?). It's anyway one of the main forums with lower activity, so I don't see yet a need for a split.

It looks anyway bad if you have many small forums with very little activity, and it has the risks of drying things up overproportionally as it becomes more hassle to read everything.

No, we have too many subforums already.

Please don't be offended, but I'm going to argue my case a bit. Well, Kyle, you can be offended, if you want.

I agree, Kyle, we do have too many sub forums. I think off topic should be scuttled, or at the very least turned into a forum for discussing media and what not. The political arguments do nothing constructive for the site and  almost certainly alienate far many more potential posters than they bring in. I think the hatefest that is off topic is an ugly boil on the shapely ass of theRPGsite. By all means, lance it.

@Elliot: I agree that MOST collaborative setting are doomed to failure- but the One hex at a time thread is still going and is, imo, an ideal format for collaboration, really.

@Fritzs-  I think you express a valid concern, but, of the threads mentioned so far, all of them have good ideas (except for perhaps my ME thread) that can be used by any GM, regardless of their level of completion.

@ Skyrock- there's no reason it can't be reintergrated back into Design and dev. if it flops.

At the very least, I think the design and development forum needs a different name- the one it has may be factual, but it is, imo, boring and off putting.

Thanks for responding.

Well, I can translate some of homebrew setting I and few other people tryed to create on RPGForum.cz... If you want to see how far did we get with that thing...

Go for it.