Quote from: cranebump;966107There is your best bet for success.:-)

I know, right?

Quote from: cranebump;966145Good question. Style-wise, I see a lot of things to like, based on observations of people's posts. My litmus test is crunch level. I'd prefer a simple base, simple resolution mechanic.

If I had to guess, the system would probably feature a short rules section, a much lengthier reference section (spells, etc. taking up a large section of the tome(s)). I don't think it would be too fussy, in the core.

I will say this -- every time I solicit interesting ideas for campaign play, I always get back awesome, awesome, stuff. I therefore think an "RPG SITE" game isn't a game at all, but a sandbox setting filled with everyone's very creative takes on adventures. A book of RPG SITES, as it were. Setting agnostic, I guess.

I'd rather have it be system agnostic, myself. TRS could come up with interesting setting, it would be a waste to squander the opportunity.

Start with system. Make crunch optional. Make sure it covers every genre. What's so hard? :rolleyes:

Quote from: Dumarest;965051I don't know but I imagine that at least 50% of the book would be designer's notes lambasting other games and what they do wrong.

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;965123Based upon the fan-base here, I'd guess some sort of OSR where you quest against the evil Social Justice Warriors which are a scourge upon the land.

Going from the first few pages of this thread and the general atmosphere here I'll go with these and them some.

Quote from: cranebump;966105I can't imagine a group this opinionated being able to get anything done. Working together takes some sublimation of the ego, and you have people trumpeting their casual dickery in their sigs. Throw in everyone's sacred cows (including political ones that cause dick shrinkage and "j'accuse!" by the SWG's [Screaming White Guys] at even one wiff of possible leftism) and you've got a classic clusterfuck.

Now, if you can get some of the like-minded people (as far as expectations for a system) together, you might have something. But trying to shoehorn 50 square pegs into 6 round holes would seem a bridge too far. Good luck, though, if anyone wants to try.

SWGs. Heh, I like that.

Seems like maybe the GM needs to just pick/invent his favorite rule system, or at least combat system. Or have almost every rules section marked Optional or Pick A B or C.

The tricky part to me seems like balance that can survive using different systems and/or knob positions for our different tastes in power levels of things.

That's not even thinking about narrativium.

Little more seriously, I think there's more of a range of playstyles and preferences present on this board than it gets credit for, even from the members so a single representative game would be difficult in any thing but a symbolic sense, essentially a mascot based the site's rep mpore than the reality. As such it would have great deal of largely pointless profanity and "Fuck you" Tough Guy tone.

Quote from: TrippyHippy;965028Isn't Lords of Olympus and Dark Albion largely patronised by this site?

Not specifically, no.  Both have large fan bases of people who don't come here, though of course there's a lot of people here who like it too.

An RPGSite RPG would be an OSR Rift's-like game that crossed multiple genres with a simple, but flexible system.

It would be more setting than rules.

But heathen apostates would demand it would be Modular.

And from Modularity would begin the coming of the Crunch. At first it would only be a textural thing. Then it would calcify and divide us. Lines would be drawn. Sides would be taken. Tribes would be formed. And then RPGSite Nerdzerker Wars would begin.

It would be glorious.

Quote from: tenbones;966932An RPGSite RPG would be an OSR Rift's-like game that crossed multiple genres with a simple, but flexible system.

It would be more setting than rules.

But heathen apostates would demand it would be Modular.

And from Modularity would begin the coming of the Crunch. At first it would only be a textural thing. Then it would calcify and divide us. Lines would be drawn. Sides would be taken. Tribes would be formed. And then RPGSite Nerdzerker Wars would begin.

So.... Tuesday then?  

It's 4am here and I got the best idea. I win, game over.

TheRPGsite shouldn't produce an RPG... It's should produce a magazine. The Mad Magazine of RPGs. It would focus on gamer articles, social issues, politics (all of which relate to the hobby) and of coarse RPG reviews and a host of other shit that I can't think of right now. But really this is the strength of this forum and it's members. Start quarterly, get an illustrator to do a strip, which pokes fun at everyone here and on the internet... crowdfunding scammers etc. there is a wealth of those.

Parody and the like, and people will love to hate it.

Plus it would best magazine ever because instead of paying freelancer artists and writers straight up. It would give each of them a % for the contributions. Which in turn would give reasons for contributors to promote the thing. TheRPGsite, shouldn't be doing what EN World is doing, it should do it's own thing, and get down with its bad self. I'll take 1% of the first issue. You're welcome I win!

Quote from: J.L. Duncan;967110It's 4am here and I got the best idea. I win, game over.

TheRPGsite shouldn't produce an RPG... It's should produce a magazine. The Mad Magazine of RPGs. It would focus on gamer articles, social issues, politics (all of which relate to the hobby) and of coarse RPG reviews and a host of other shit that I can't think of right now. But really this is the strength of this forum and it's members. Start quarterly, get an illustrator to do a strip, which pokes fun at everyone here and on the internet... crowdfunding scammers etc. there is a wealth of those.

Parody and the like, and people will love to hate it.

Plus it would best magazine ever because instead of paying freelancer artists and writers straight up. It would give each of them a % for the contributions. Which in turn would give reasons for contributors to promote the thing. TheRPGsite, shouldn't be doing what EN World is doing, it should do it's own thing, and get down with its bad self. I'll take 1% of the first issue. You're welcome I win!

Hey!! This is a good idea (I would contribute).

Quote from: J.L. Duncan;967110It's 4am here and I got the best idea. I win, game over.

TheRPGsite shouldn't produce an RPG... It's should produce a magazine. The Mad Magazine of RPGs. It would focus on gamer articles, social issues, politics (all of which relate to the hobby) and of coarse RPG reviews and a host of other shit that I can't think of right now. But really this is the strength of this forum and it's members. Start quarterly, get an illustrator to do a strip, which pokes fun at everyone here and on the internet... crowdfunding scammers etc. there is a wealth of those.

Parody and the like, and people will love to hate it.

Plus it would best magazine ever because instead of paying freelancer artists and writers straight up. It would give each of them a % for the contributions. Which in turn would give reasons for contributors to promote the thing. TheRPGsite, shouldn't be doing what EN World is doing, it should do it's own thing, and get down with its bad self. I'll take 1% of the first issue. You're welcome I win!

This actually really is a good idea.

Quote from: J.L. Duncan;967110The Mad Magazine of RPGs.

That would be pretty cool. I assume you mean Mad as it used to be, i.e., funny and ad-free, rather than what currently passes for Mad, i.e., the Warner Bros. mouthpiece chockfull of ads.

Quote from: Dumarest;967181That would be pretty cool. I assume you mean Mad as it used to be, i.e., funny and ad-free, rather than what currently passes for Mad, i.e., the Warner Bros. mouthpiece chockfull of ads.

Yes, MAD as it started. Minimal, if any ads.

Just for the record I have absolutely no intention of making an "RPGsite RPG".  The thread was purely meant for amusement purposes.