wow, i have so many sites-that-could-have-been. one amongst them was a grand ffxiv project, where i was imagining having three separate boards for each of the regions gridania (the black shroud I GUESS see this is why it will never get made), thanalan, and la noscea... and i guess a spinoff maybe for the other regions like coerthas and stuff. they'd have interconnected plots but largely be their own thriving places / economies / cultures. sometimes there would be battles maybe ?!?! tension ?!?!

i don't remember if i went anywhere with the three-site idea but i did start to try to make a skin for at least one ffxiv site. my interest in ffxiv waxes and wanes with my subscription hahaha so it probably will never come to fruition.

So I had to stop and think first, what do I have in my backlog of ideas that never went anywhere.

And well, I was working on a Rune Factory/Pokemon crossover site. 

Honestly I'm pretty shocked at how much I had gotten done on my own lol. I'm pretty impressed with myself ngl. Damn, did I really started on this in 2016? Holy shit that was a whole 4 years ago, wow, it feels like forever ago....



lmao im hilarious

anywaayyyy....

inspired off gen 6 at the time, the idea was that because of the great calamity/war/whatever it was, in one universe, opened up a gateway between worlds, and now pokemon were somehow finding themselves in the land of Selphia. So, pokemon with elves, and dwarves, and magic, and monsters (that they kicked the crap out of lmao). The idea I think I wanted for it was for players to discover pokemon and make a proto-pokedex that was all member submitted.

Now with gen 8 and RF4 Special out, this wouldn't be a bad time to re-visit the idea, or at least re-work and update it a little. Maybe with an original town instead and the likes, idk lol.

I think the only reason I didn't go through with it was that I was very dedicated to my current rp at that time (which was a bit of a mistake), and I was just working on this on the side. Granted I'm still working on a site rn, but if someone was really super interested in this one, then I wouldn't mind splitting time between it.

Or if someone just wanted to take the concept for their own like, fucking do it dude, live my dreams for me.

This is more of a discussion thread than a review thread, so I'm moving it over to the base site management board so it doesn't get archived

I think around May of last year, I really wanted to make a Non-Canon Player-Plot Driven One-Punch Man rp where death was no-consent. Outside of managing hero ranks, and moderating the story for balancing, I wanted to experiment and see what players would do against each other with the stakes so high, and what stories people would write. I had written a whole lore page, time line justification, balancing and power system, and even legitimate reasons for lack of canon characters.

I think what stopped me from making the site and opening it was because of my chaotic writing style. While yes, blind siding people is fun, but I feel like such unpredictable story arcs would drive people away from joining. And to even get people to join.. To say the least, I have a horrible personality, and I feared that would deter people from joining. I also didn't have the money to up-keep a jcink premium forum, as the rp was probably going to be 18+ due to mature content and violence.

I also lacked people to help me get the site going. This was around the time my old site shut down, and nobody really liked to stray away from fantasy rp. So.. I was kinda by myself on this.

Idk, maybe with enough support I'll revive this idea.

EDIT: Even if I dont ever make it, I'd love to see someone else try. Maybe I'd help out /shrug. I just- am horrible with heading stuff. One-Punch has a special place in my heart, and I would love to see more sites surrounding such a good story.

Oh jeezus... I've had so many. The one I can think of the farthest back was one based on Fushigi Yuugi, which I called Wo Ai Ni... I even had someone help me make a skin for it and everything. But I never could get the info written up for it and had more fun making the graphics and such.

The biggest project, and one I keep telling myself I will open because it is SO CLOSE TO FINISHED is one based off of Final Fantasy: Explorers, XIV, Tactics, all those fun games... I worked really hard on the lore and I did everything by myself... I've never really shared it but here goes: Esuna, my forever WIP baby. Seriously. It has been a WIP for six years...

Honestly, it is such a huge project that it was daunting to have to run it by myself. SO I never opened it. Couldn't find a co-admin that would stick around. T_T;

This site looks amazing! Great aesthetics and it only took me a minute or two to grasp the system.

hello. it's me again. i'm back

caesura is the closest i've ever come to opening up a site (minus the one i'm currently working on). i've been roleplaying in the indie marvel scene on tumblr for, oh, maybe 9-10 years now? and i was really itching for that kind of experience but in more of a cohesive group. no duplicates, synchronized histories between characters (mostly), still the freedom to grab and take elements from various marvel sources as wanted, and more importantly, no snap/thanos/gritty-edgy-nobody-can-be-friends shit.

which like, don't get me wrong, there'd still be a million opportunities for like, angst circles and shit. but i just don't like thanos or the direction they went with civil war, so like. none of that. we can start with good slice of life and team building dynamics and characters actually being friends first, dammit, before we throw them in the meat grinder

i'm still proud of that skin. i think it's neat, if a bit too bright for my tastes right now. also i made a really cute miniprofile for it that i'm proud of

quirky fantasy – a run-of-the-mill fantasy setting with an especially whimsical flair. the game took place on a moving island largely unexplored beyond a majora’s mask-esque clock tower governed by a drunk, amicable wizard deity of time. surly, foul-mouthed post bunnies dive-bombed from the sky to deliver mail, phantom trains (in the literal sense of being a ghost) chugged away happily throughout all corners of the town and its homes, and characters came at the behest of the kingdom in a fantasy-style gold rush to, idk, find legendary treasure. there was an explorer!element as a whole in that, while the areas were designed into the forum already, the intention was to use events as a method for characters to discover and open new boards over time. very rune-factory inspired but had a mix of little witch academy and grim grimoire in that magic books dictated physics and occasionally went haywire to funny, wacky effects like the entire island blipping out of one existence into another or time loops. since this was common, everyone who was a town NPC canonically pretended it either didn't happen or was over, so why think too much about it.
cognitive spies – a sci-fi setting where all characters developed complete retrograde amnesia for a plot reason which goes unexplained to everyone in the game. the intelligence agency followed was a global initiative exploring the use of hacking. there were two factions: white hackers (government) versus black hackers (rogue), and players within these groups were attempting to find out what exactly happened to the leader of a major terrorist group who went quiet roughly around the same time as the amnesia started. drew heavily from the animatrix, paprika, eden of the east, inception, and black mirror as influences. generally played with this idea of “how would you write a character whose history was unknown to them beyond a certain point?” was a combo of political espionage, artificial intelligence mumbo jumbo, and mystery since players were encouraged to write their character's story in more depth as they discovered new plot points.

the only real "site that could have been" thing that i have is secunda, a noncanon elder scrolls rp set a few hundred years after the events of skyrim

the main concept of the site is that it's faction-based and with a user-driven plot. factions would be the ones seen in the games: thieves guild, dark brotherhood (i.e. assassins), mage's guild, fighter's guild, blades (i.e royal guard), town guard, etc

characters would gain "points" for their faction by posting in threads, plotting, basically just being active around site. every month or so, events would revolve around the factions with the highest & lowest point totals. so if, say, the thieves guild had the highest point total and the blades had the lowest point total, there'd be an event where the thieves guild is planning on breaking into the royal treasury and the blades need to devise a way to stop it. plot beats would be dictated by the outcomes of these events and ideally everything would conglomerate into a site "timeline" that helps trigger future events.

i'm too flighty to ever staff and honestly everything from trying to figure out how to handle faceclaims to making combat systems to needing to read so....much....elder scrolls....lore....makes me wanna combust into flames orz

Thanks! I still really want to open this someday and maybe I will since I'm stuck at home now. I had such high hopes for this place~ it deserves to see the light of day.

I just need to probably revamp some things and it'll be good!

A couple sites that I had ideas for, made, but never opened.

tokyo mew mew: at your service. inspired by the shoujo anime/manga that we all have seen in our childhood at least once, it was supposed to be an au take on the series with more maturity, a lot more locations to explore, and more options for characters with powers. Original mew mews, original aliens, two knights, four progenitors(like ryuu, but with different domestic animals presumably), and even a couple of humans who had been experimented on before the Mew Project and obtained powers because of it. The only problem was that I could never form a cohesive plotline/direction for it that didn't mimic the series, and I was largely nervous that it wouldn't work out because of the larger availability and accession of sailor moon sites floating around.

chemical compound. based on the concept that everyone goes somewhere after they die. An original rp beautifully located in the Toshima ward/city within Tokyo, which was picked primarily because of the optimistic name of its "Sunshine City" building, its diversity compared to other places in Tokyo, and because it is as much of a commercial as it is a residential district -- it just seemed like the perfect place. The idea of the roleplay was that each person would be (re)born as a color, and other characters would only know them by that color. No last names. No first names. Just a color. The twist being that these characters were reincarnated not remembering ANYTHING of their former life, and only knew of the life they currently have in the rp; the reason being that each and every character had committed suicide when they had been on earth. The game would focus on the different sol struggles of each character as they slowly start to remember who they are and what they did in their past, how they died, etc. This was an idea I was in pure love with, but I came up short when trying to work out how characters could remember their past lives, what events could be done, if there would be a higher power, staff influence, if the suicidal concept would be too offensive, if characters should be rewarded for memory retrieval, and if/how to tie into possible soulmate mechanics. it's only half-way done, and I always thought I would finish it one day. I might try to get it off the ground eventually, but I would need someone to bounce ideas off of help me fill out all the missing pieces, and convince me that it would last.