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Tabletop Games
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Site Name
Tabletop Games
(Is this too confusing with TRPG?)
Description
Questions about all types of tabletop games -- board games, card games, dice games, and others. Questions about playing these games through online platforms are welcome if the questions are about the games and not the mechanics of those platforms.
Topics
Topics covered would include:
Q&A:
- Questions that arise from playing games -- rules, house rules, strategies, etc.
- Game components, e.g. "how can I fabricate or substitute for this important thing from an out-of-print game?".
- Game design.
- Promotion/publishing: how to, e.g. timing or structuring a KickStarter, but not promotion of specific games.
- Game history, e.g. about categories or series of games (crayon rail, Catan, M:tG expansions).
- Requests for recommendations if tightly scoped. (Let's explore this in the incubator.)
Blog (articles)
- Reviews.
- Session recaps.
- Information about or reports from gaming conventions.
- Essays about design, mechanics, or other gaming topics that community members want to share fleshed-out thoughts about.
Exclusions
These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:
- Speculative questions about the future (e.g. when will X come out?).
- Sports, even though table tennis technically involves a table.
- Open-ended philosophy/"why" questions -- but these these might make great blog posts!
- Solo puzzles like Sudoku? (How do we feel about those?)
Special Features
A blog category, as already noted. Is there a better name? It's not just reviews.
Overlaps
Some board and card games are rooted in RPGs. We'll need to work with the TRPG community on overlap. Broadly speaking, if it's about the role-playing/storytelling aspects it should go to TRPG, and otherwise it's ambiguous.
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