[note: Sorry about not doing the Gencon activity. I was too busy and tired to do anything with that and didn't coordinate with people before hand]

Let's come up with a new set of topics for our weekly discussion thread. This is brainstorming thread #8

Curation & Topic Development

As before, after we come up with some basic ideas, I will try to massage these topics into more concrete discussion threads, broadening the topic if they are way too narrow (ie. use of failing forward concept in post-apocalyptic horror with furries game) or too general (ie. What's the best type of mechanic for action?) or off-scope (ie. how to convert TRPG to CRPG).

I will approve the idea by putting them in a...

• Bullet, which I will later copy into the list. As said above.

I will probably approve most ideas, unless they are too general or too specific. If I don't approve it, I will ask you to try to make it more general or more specific as needed.

After it is approved, I hope people reply to my reply and write out some introduction paragraph and discussion questions.

Idea Ownership & Attribution

When it's time to create the activity thread, I might reference where the idea for the thread comes from. This is not to give recognition. Rather, I will do this as a shout-out to the idea-creator because I'm not sure about what to write. ;-~

Generally speaking, when you come up with an idea and put it out here, it becomes a public resource for us to build on.

Re-using Old Topics

It is OK to come up with topics that have already been discussed in activity threads as well as during normal subreddit discussion. If you do this, feel free to reference the earlier discussion; I will put links to it in the activity thread.

No Contests

As stated before, there is one thing that we are not doing: design-a-game contests. The other mods and I agreed that we didn't want this for activities when we started this weekly activity. We do not want to promote "internal competition" in this sub. We do not want to be involved with judging or facilitating judging.

Let's Do It!

I hope that we get a lot of participation on this brainstorming thread so that we can come up with a good schedule of events. So that's it. Please... give us your ideas for future discussions!

Special Note

• Because of my flakyness, we didn't get to some topics in the last round. These will be added to the beginning of the new set.

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