The Big List of RPG Plots

This should have (1999) in the title, which is when it was originally published.

> Over the last two decades, The Big List of RPG Plots has been cited, quoted, thanked and excerpted in articles for computer-game design, a book on Hollywood screenwriting, and more than a few pen-and-paper RPGs. I wrote it in 1993 as an article submission for Pyramid magazine (they rejected it). I later tried to shop it to Dragon and Shadis and others (they also rejected it). I became Pyramid's editor in 1998 and decided: nah, that would be lame, to finally "accept" my own rejected article, so instead, it became something I'd offer for free on my own website, the Blue Room, where it debuted in '99 and lives on to this day.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/202670/Big-List-of-RPG-...

There's also TVTropes (warning: abandon all home of productivity): https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RolePlayingGame

Being a coder, i have a ton of friends who all aspire to create indie games in their spare time. I also know a couple of artistic friends with similar aspirations. I wish there was a platform for these two sets of people to ideate and join forces. Lists like this help, but it doesn't begin to answer all of the design/environment/modeling that is necessary for most games.

Even if, like the random saas projects many of us have in mothballs, no released project comes of it, almost everyone involved would likely make out positively from the experiences gained.