That in particular should probably go under Trope Talk, or possibly Short Term Projects
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TRS is more for when the trope itself is fundamentally broken and needs fairly significant reworking to be viable.
edited 17th Dec '13 5:22:48 PM by Larkmarn
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Hi
Moved to Trope Talk.
Which examples belong into the RPG page? I am not familiar with the individual titles and won't have the means to do research until evening.
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Zzzzzzzzzz
The thing is, RPGs can be Video Games or Tabletop Games. So the RPG section is really redundant to those other two.
edited 18th Dec '13 5:06:20 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Ah, yes. The question now is if we should arrange the subpages according to "roleplay or not" or "videogame or tabletop game". Any opinions?
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Serocco
I would agree. Separate the video games with the tabletops.
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
All games on EldritchAbomination.Roleplaying Games are about forum roleplays/play-by-post. How do these fit into Tabletop Games or Video Games?
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They don't. Put them under Web Original.
Knows-Many-Things
Well, well well, gentlemen. The problem is very simple: People are either confused about the difference between a weird alien and an otherworldly, unfathomable horror or they just think the term "Eldritch Abomination" is a lot cooler to describe their favorite alien with.
Since I belong to the latter, I'll sympathize but yes, something must be done. I recommend that we just do a run of the mill cleanup. Shouldn't be too hard.
Find the Light in the Dark
Zzzzzzzzzz
This isn't about the definition. That would make it a TRS topic. It's just about the example sorting.
That said, Septimus asked this:
Roleplay games go under the appropriate medium: Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium is a Tabletop Game. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth by Headfirst is a Video Game. A Play-by-post or forum game is a Web Original.
edited 10th Jan '14 6:48:29 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
Has everyone forgotten about the Roleplay Name Space?
A play-by-post roleplay goes there, not Web Original.
edited 12th Jan '14 4:20:35 AM by crazysamaritan
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Namespaces are not folders or subpages, though.
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Dvandemon
way too overused. a lot of the times it's used as "this sorta gross monster that looks unorthodox" rather than "this thing that breaks all known and expected laws of nature along with my mind"
Zzzzzzzzzz
Once again: This thread is not about the definition. It's about the sorting method to use on the page.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
It's perhaps best if I go and move these roleplay examples to the Web Original subpage as explained in @10 and @12.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
United Earth
To be fair, Cthulhu himself qualifies as that; it doesn't seem so much that he breaks the laws of reality; he's mostly just a huge, dragon-winged, scaly, octopus-headed giant who doesn't seem to have very special powers. There are very few monsters that have You Cannot Grasp the True Form and/or Alien Geometries and/or Brown Note to get up to the standard that Lovecraft hyped his brainchildren to (and which, as far as I'm concerned, he mostly failed to meet). Also, the sort of Insane Equals Violent "generic insanity" of their victims and cultists strikes me as very phony.
So, what, we make another TRS thread for the definition discussion?
Zzzzzzzzzz
The definition is not broken. The page and wicks just need regular monitoring. That is not a TRS issue. It's a Long-Term Projects issue.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
If this is no longer a TRS, then why does Eldritch Abomination still have a TRS thread tag?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Because this thread was moved from TRS.
It appears to be so stale, I'll lock it off.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Eldritch Abomination thread has both Roleplaying Games and Tabletop Games subpages, but examples of both are almost entirely listed on with Tabletop Games. In addition, it seems someone has entirely deleted the Pathfinder examples in the TBG section (which should rightfully be with the RP Gs).
I would try to fix this myself, but my spare time is rapidly disappearing.
I apologize, I'm not entirely certain I used the correct reason for listing, or posted this is the right workshop.
Talk about me? I'm sorry, but I'm too shy to do that.