The War Against Desborough and Mongoose Publishing

1989 · June 29, 2012, 07:45:08 PM

Quote from: Aos;554758I'll be opening Take Back the Dice a counseling center for 4e survivors. There will, of course, be no statuary or anything square on the premises and the entire structure will be built from tears of senseless and impotent rage. Tuesday evening will be reserved for RPG potlatch, a ritual of healing, wherein everyone produces, waves about, pisses on and then burns the money that WoTC could have had if they had not fired us as customers shortly before violating our dice bags. Brothers and sisters, we shall overcome!

Epic lol.

I approve this post.

Nahualt · June 29, 2012, 07:58:29 PM

Quote from: GMSkarka;554783Whipped this up. I think the emphasis on No Agendas, and an implicit invitation to join is a good combo:

Very nice.

RPGPundit · June 29, 2012, 08:13:34 PM

Quote from: James Gillen;554692Tangency, as the name implies, is basically for off-game topic discussion, but the point being made here is that the politicization of everything on Tangency is spreading over into the gaming stuff, e.g. the idea that Mongoose is promoting a "rape culture".

JG

More importantly, Tangency rapidly overwhelmed the RPG-centered forums there in terms of influence and significance, to the extreme detriment of those sites. It was also Tangency that encouraged the extreme moderation in the name of "emotional safety" for the precious princess posters there, that ended up leading to what is in essence a group of non-gamers controlling the moderation practices of what is allegedly a roleplaying discussion forum. That's why I joke that the real name for that site ought to be Tangency.net

Traveller, I don't know if I'm too fond of the smiley-face on your banner there; what if instead there was something like, say, a D20?

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RPGPundit · June 29, 2012, 08:15:56 PM

Daniel, Skarka's banner is good too, if you prefer it. It'd be your call if you're ponying up the dough.

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daniel_ream · June 29, 2012, 08:37:25 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;554830Daniel, Skarka's banner is good too, if you prefer it. It'd be your call if you're ponying up the dough.

I like the message the best, but the contrast between the antialiased logo and the aliased text is jarring. Traveller, if you can clean it up some I'll consider it a go.

John Morrow · June 29, 2012, 08:37:35 PM

Quote from: GMSkarka;554783Whipped this up. I think the emphasis on No Agendas, and an implicit invitation to join is a good combo:

I'm not sure that "No Agendas" is really accurate advertising, nor really is "free speech" or "uncensored" entirely accurate, either.

This one uses the motto from the banner with a note about the moderation that shouldn't give the wrong impression, a ".com" in the site name, and some emphasis:

(I like the "Join the Conversation" line, and if the banner is bigger, I would put that in instead of the .com addition. What size does this thing need to be exactly? -- Nevermind, looks like Full Banners are 468×60
and Leaderboards are 728×90.)

John Morrow · June 29, 2012, 09:04:51 PM

Attached are two big banner sizes with no text other than the site logo with and without ".com".

John Morrow · June 29, 2012, 09:06:15 PM

Attached are two smaller banner sizes with no text other than the site logo with and without ".com".

Benoist · June 29, 2012, 09:12:26 PM

I like the addition of the .com. It makes it clearer and if you don't click on the banner you might be intrigued enough to try the URL on your browser yourself. Good move IMO.

John Morrow · June 29, 2012, 09:40:04 PM

Quote from: daniel_ream;554834I like the message the best, but the contrast between the antialiased logo and the aliased text is jarring. Traveller, if you can clean it up some I'll consider it a go.

Here's a version of GMSkarka's message, cleaned up a bit.

Endless Flight · June 29, 2012, 09:48:57 PM

That's pretty cool. I dig it.

John Morrow · June 29, 2012, 09:51:29 PM

Fixed a couple of things. GMSkarka's message again.

Spike · June 30, 2012, 12:02:01 AM

I love checking two days of committe discussion about how to best sloganize the forum. Seriously: Its a banner ad. How many people will seriously look at it and think "You know... that was pretty good, but false advertising, dude!"

John Morrow · June 30, 2012, 12:04:43 AM

Quote from: Spike;554880I love checking two days of committe discussion about how to best sloganize the forum. Seriously: Its a banner ad. How many people will seriously look at it and think "You know... that was pretty good, but false advertising, dude!"

All of the RPGPundit haters, the people on RPGnet who like it the way it is, the SA goons, B.T., Pseudoephedrine, and Kyle. Is that good enough for starters? The Internet is full of people looking for a reason to be offended.

Marleycat · June 30, 2012, 01:05:03 AM

Quote from: Spike;554880I love checking two days of committe discussion about how to best sloganize the forum. Seriously: Its a banner ad. How many people will seriously look at it and think "You know... that was pretty good, but false advertising, dude!"

It's better not to purposely paint a bullseye on your chest for every person on the internet with an axe to grind if you can help it? Besides the people we want are like just about all the new posters that have shown up. Only Kaelik has been explicitly trollish but even he is calming down because his focus is 3x. And nobody can say 3x is balanced.