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Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

The free gang tag contest thing is over. I'm sorry if you missed out. However, you can still add a gang tag to your own avatar by purchasing a New Avatar. See the last post in this thread for detailed instructions!

Here are the awesome final gang tags. Do read the thread to see lots more amazing entries that didn't quite make the cut!






-------original post below-----------

Hey everyone!

Drunk with my newfound power, but also being a very generous sort of goon, I feel like all of Trad Games deserves presents. How about gang tags? All those other subforums have loads of gang tags and we pretty much don't. Why not label every one of your posts with a signifier of your specific sub-interest within the trad games milieu, so we can amplify our divisions and identify our enemies more easily show the wider SA world how proud we are of our nerd poo poo with some sort of gaudy banner or annoyingly blinking dice or whatever the hell!

I'm an ideas man and I have the buttons of control that let me make gang tags happen, but YOU are the ones who must come up with the tags.

DIY recently did something similar and I think it makes sense to copy that formula a bit since it seems to have worked out for them:

Jaded Burnout posted:

The rough process is:
1. Any interested posters suggest some tags for their subcommunity or subcommunities
2. Some kind of voting on which are the best in their category
3. Any interested posters produce images for the winners
4. Some kind of voting on the best images for each tag
5. Anyone who participated in the thread and wants one or more of the tags gets them, free of charge

Please post your suggestions and what community you feel it represents.

yeah let's do that!

Please also link in to this thread from any TG thread that you think might be interested.

Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Nov 9, 2020

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Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



I just PM'd you my submission because I sent that before reading this and I'm a goober.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
Top half: "D&D but <cycling through various genres>"
Bottom half: "Play another game"

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

Gang tag parameters, straight from the admins:

Absolute max width of 180 pixels. That's non-negotiable. Narrower is fine.
"a good height" is 20-40 pixels tall. There are many taller gang tags including some of mine, so that's a bit flexible, but the admins said to push for 20-40.
PNG, JPG, and GIF is OK. Static or a little bit of animation is OK but no epic movies playing out in your massive animated GIF please.

There are people on the mod/admin team who think that gang tag stacking like mine is excessive and are muttering about restrictions so if we want to avoid that I guess we should try not to flagrantly abuse gang tag height guidlines. :(

TG guidelines that I'll impose on top of the above:
-No gross/offensive poo poo obviously
-If you use a company's trademark you have to alter it to suit fair use guidelines, e.g. an obvious parody, you can't just plop a trademark into a tag and call it a day

I would like to see a general Trad Games gang tag in addition to tag options for the various subgenres, communities, and game-focuses we have in our many megathreads.

Joe Slowboat
Nov 9, 2016

Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements



Splicer posted:

Top half: "D&D but <cycling through various genres>"
Bottom half: "Play another game"

...it’s this, this is the indie TTRPG community here.

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



It's got a garbage white background that I need to delete cause I was lazy, but think this should fit : https://imgur.com/gallery/uboTpKt

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

Xiahou Dun posted:

It's got a garbage white background that I need to delete cause I was lazy, but think this should fit : https://imgur.com/gallery/uboTpKt

so more like this

and this is still really pushing the vertical limit

TammyHEH
Dec 11, 2013

Alfrything is only the ghost of a memory...
Lazy posting here but the mafia community could do with a gang tag

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Leperflesh posted:

so more like this

and this is still really pushing the vertical limit

isn't this someone's avatar

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

Cat Face Joe posted:

isn't this someone's avatar

Yes and i vaguely recall their name: mitchard

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



fancy lettering that just says "verisimilicrew"

PoptartsNinja
May 9, 2008

He is still almost definitely not a spy


Soiled Meat
Is there a file size limit?



Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



Leperflesh posted:

so more like this

and this is still really pushing the vertical limit

And then it removes the chainmail bikini. C’est la vie. Couldn’t make it fit in a gang tag.

Under 15
Jan 6, 2005

Mr. Helsbecter will you please stop shooting I am on the phone

PoptartsNinja posted:

Is there a file size limit?





Need a "THIN YOUR PAINTS" gang tag

PoptartsNinja
May 9, 2008

He is still almost definitely not a spy


Soiled Meat

Under 15 posted:

Need a "THIN YOUR PAINTS" gang tag

And a "Tabletop Quality"

mellonbread
Dec 20, 2017
On the work computer now, but I'm thinking something simple. Like the "No sense of right and wrong" wizard with the words "Traditional Games"

Under 15
Jan 6, 2005

Mr. Helsbecter will you please stop shooting I am on the phone

PoptartsNinja posted:

And a "Tabletop Quality"

I like this one better

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

PoptartsNinja posted:

Is there a file size limit?





Not explicitly. Admin said something vague about not too big/too animated.

The way this seems to work is I submit images for approval/loading to an admin in a thread in the mod forum, so they'll tell me if we're asking for something that is way out of line. But that would be annoying to get to that stage with an unusable tag, so I'm just asking folks to keep the filesize and animations to some gutfeels "reasonable" level. :shrug:

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

then again I just noticed a mod with this gang tag

sooooo, let's apply Rule 0 and say the GM can ignore the rules whenever they feel like it if it makes the game better

PoptartsNinja
May 9, 2008

He is still almost definitely not a spy


Soiled Meat

Under 15 posted:

I like this one better



Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

If the tag doesn't have the scrunt in it then what are we even doing here?

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

Here's all the scrunt material, if you want to do that
https://imgur.com/a/iEutM

like allll of it

e. this has some potential

theironjef
Aug 11, 2009

The archmage of unexpected stinks.

Maybe something letting people know about how Mike Mearls hadn't been fired yet and the importance that that get fixed.

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


Leperflesh posted:

Here's all the scrunt material, if you want to do that
https://imgur.com/a/iEutM

like allll of it

e. this has some potential




???

The fancier the text, the harder it gets to shrink down legibly.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Leperflesh posted:

e. this has some potential


this has my vote

Under 15
Jan 6, 2005

Mr. Helsbecter will you please stop shooting I am on the phone


This is my vote

mellonbread
Dec 20, 2017


Let me know if this skates too close to the rule about copyrighted images.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

mellonbread posted:



Let me know if this skates too close to the rule about copyrighted images.
YES

except change it to Magical Realm

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

that seems fine to me
also the rule is about trademarks, like, if you use

all by itself with no modification, that's not OK.

also feel free to cheer on your favorites but I'm going to give everyone a while (like at least days, maybe a couple weeks) to submit options before we do some kind of voting thing.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



dwarf74 posted:

YES

except change it to Magical Realm

Dare you enter my magical realm? would be good.

LashLightning
Feb 20, 2010

You know you didn't have to go post that, right?
But it's fine, I guess...

You just keep being you!

Cat Face Joe posted:

Dare you enter my magical realm? would be good.

"Magical Realm" would have to glitter, or have some sort of emphasis.

Also, just having "arruargharruargh" scroll past behind the "tabletop quality" Marine. Gotta have that scream!

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah




It's a fair bit taller than 40px, but I don't think there's any other way to do this particular one so maybe it just wasn't meant to be.

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


mellonbread posted:



Let me know if this skates too close to the rule about copyrighted images.

May I suggest:



or



EDIT: or

That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Oct 15, 2020

Haystack
Jan 23, 2005





mellonbread posted:



Let me know if this skates too close to the rule about copyrighted images.

This one, but it slowly fills up with piss

mellonbread
Dec 20, 2017

That Old Tree posted:

May I suggest:



or


Perhaps a gif that switches between the two?

(In the interest of pedantry, I think it's "right and wrong" rather than "right or wrong")

That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


mellonbread posted:

Perhaps a gif that switches between the two?

(In the interest of pedantry, I think it's "right and wrong" rather than "right or wrong")

Oo, definitely!

Vox Valentine
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

That Old Tree posted:



It's a fair bit taller than 40px, but I don't think there's any other way to do this particular one so maybe it just wasn't meant to be.
Aww, that one's brilliant, I'd love to have it.

mellonbread
Dec 20, 2017
Perfection

Joe Slowboat
Nov 9, 2016

Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements



That Old Tree posted:

Oo, definitely!



This one has won me over, elegant in its simplicity, wonderful in its shotgun wizard.

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DigitalRaven
Oct 9, 2012




That Old Tree posted:

Oo, definitely!



This is glorious

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