My name is Justin, and I'm trying to get a new RPG off the ground, and I'm hoping to keep trying that here. The issue is that when it comes to internet forums, I have really bad luck. Like, unnaturally bad. Like, fill the room with smoke and get ready for a cleansing ritual, because there is some bad voodoo going on. Okay, I don't actually believe in luck, but I've had a really hard time finding a good forum for this. I started off on GiantITP, but frankly I'm sick of the people there. (Who are not only completely unhelpful, but abuse the "report" button to silence opposing points of view, and are allowed to do so because of the blind idiot moderation done there.) So I've been seeking a replacement. The first site was even worse than GiantITP, the next two sites just don't get enough traffic, another one effectively self-destructed, another site is so full of malware it destroyed one mobile device and it took hours to clean out my computer, and another has had my thread waiting for moderator approval for days. So this is my seventh try. And I'm hoping "lucky" number 7 will turn out better than numbers 1-6. And now that the introductions are out of the way, I have to ask which forum would be the place to go for design and reference posts? Would it be Tabletop Roleplay, or Roleplaying discussion?

Well my experience with RPGuild has been pretty awesome so far. And there's no silencing opposing points of view with the report button because there is no report button (yet?)! The forum's still being built (see the top of every page for a link to the developer's dev journal to see all that's happening), so there are some quirks to get used to, but Mahz is always fixing things. So I hope you enjoy your stay! If you have any questions, the mods here are quite helpful, and many of the members are, too! And I might even be able to help with something, too. Who knows? There's a New Users "Getting Started" post somewhere around here, but I don't know where. Hopefully someone swoops in to give the link here pretty soon. EDIT: Found it! http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/4958/posts/ooc Hope to see you around!

I've been here for about five years at a guess now, and despite a few 'blips' this is definitely the site. I think you will find lucky number 7 has it - welcome and I hope you find what you are looking for.

That's good to hear. Although I should mention that part of my problem has been that my system is still being made, hasn't been streamlined yet and as of the moment is a complicated beastie that keeps changing. I'm still rewriting the rulebook after the last big rule change. Most of my issues with people abusing the "report" feature came during arguments about the rules. So is that going to be a problem? (Also, I have an enormous hate-on for GURPS. Should I keep that under wraps? Because that got a lot of people to scream at me on GiantITP. With mean, mean words.)

In my experience the GM sets the rules to an RP - and that is that. If people don't like it they stay away. I didn't even know what a GURP was until I googled it just now - so that shouldn't be a problem for you. Maybe some use that in the tabletop area I'm not sure.