Over the past few days, early 2021, I had a disagreement with User:Newimpartial about ... an unrelated subject. But I see they edit Roleplaying game articles! And I haven't done one for a while, though it was what I started here with. So I'm hoping we can find one to cooperate on, to smooth over any hard feelings, and per the note at the top of my user page.
So, here's what the Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games "Requested articles" box looks like today (16:36, 3 February 2021 (UTC)). Let's do a preliminary source search for each, to see what is likely to make for the best article, just the first few pages of search engine results; then we'll pick the best one from what we have. The list will still be useful if we like what happened to the first we picked and want to do a second!
- Going Home (for Twilight 2000) - Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1986
- https://twilight2000.fandom.com/wiki/Going_Home - fan made wiki
- https://thetrove.is/Books/Twilight%202000/Twilight%202000%20v1/Twilight%202000%20-%20Going%20Home%20%7BGDW506%7D.pdf - the thing itself, possibly illegal copy
- https://kaliszweb.wordpress.com/category/going-home/ - someone who apparently ran the adventure, fun notes, but just-a-blog
- https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Twilight-Loren-Wiseman/dp/0943580560 - The Amazon page for it
- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/400/T2000-v1-Going-Home?it=1
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5269971-going-home - very short review
- Conclusion - essentially no unrelated reliable sources. At most this will be a paragraph in the main Twilight 2000 article.
- Cthulhu for President (for Call of Cthulhu) - Origins Award winner for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1992
- https://cthulhuforamerica.com/ - official site?!?
- https://cthulhuforamerica.com/press/ - Woah! They've done much of our work here! Many of the below links come from there. There is so much here, I'm only going to list the ones that come from sources we at least have an article on.
- https://religionnews.com/2015/12/01/christmas-happy-holidays-santa-war-on-christmas/ Religion News Service
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/01/could-cthulhu-trump-other-super-tuesday-contenders-hp-lovecraft?CMP=twt_gu The Guardian
- https://www.nouvelobs.com/rue89/rue89-etats-unis/20160303.RUE2336/qui-se-cache-derriere-la-campagne-cthulhu-for-america.html L'Obs
- https://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu-for-president/ - the game page
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cthulhu-for-president_n_574fba9ee4b0ed593f134933 - Huffington Post
- https://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/stephen-king-compares-trump-to-cthulhu-and-now-cthulhu-is-pissed/ The Raw Story
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160614051059/http://elections.gatehousemedia.com:80/what-is-cthulhu-for-america-and-should-you-be-afraid/ GateHouse Media
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/cthulhus-evil-overlord-fantasy-world-turned-racist-hp-lovecraft/ The Daily Telegraph - casual mention
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tentacles-of-h-p-lovecraft-1477671211 Wall Street Journal - casual mention
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/31/record-re-emails-hillary-looks-move-fwd/93044638/ - USA Today
- https://www.youtube.com/c/Cthulhuforamerica/videos YouTube channel
- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/81966/Cthulhu-For-President-The-Game
- https://www.facebook.com/votecthulhu4prez/
- https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cthulhu-for-president-2/ The Times Literary Supplement
- https://www.wired.com/2007/03/cthulhu-for-pre/ Wired
- https://web.archive.org/web/19970329082101/http://www.cthulhu.org/index.html - another home page, older, less flashy
- Conclusion: We can almost certainly get an article out of this, but it won't really be about the roleplaying game; the roleplaying game will be a paragraph in the article about the parody
- https://cthulhuforamerica.com/ - official site?!?
<=== My comment here is that, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't really think the distinction between "the RPG" and "the parody" holds up to scrutiny. While published by an RPG publisher and winning an award as an RPG supplement, I would see this as a "game supplement" in the same sense that The Glorantha Sourcebook (which also deserves an article BTW) is a "game supplement": both are works of imaginative subcreation that were created in derivation from, but independent of, the RPG setting in question. Newimpartial (talk) 19:05, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
- Independence Day (Deadlands) - Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1997
- The Bestiary (Dragonlance) - Origins Award winner for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1998
- Countdown (Delta Green) - Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Supplement of 1999
<=== Somehow I've lost track of the state of Delta Green articles, but Countdown deserves dedicated treatment (as a section or an article) and met with independent reviews (it had to, or I wouldn't have bought it :p). I would also like to see Pagan's Golden Dawn book for CoC discussed somewhere, since it seems to have disappeared into the ether (and hasn't been revived as Delta Green has). Newimpartial (talk) 19:05, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
- GURPS Steampunk - Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Supplement 2000
- User:Newimpartial/GURPS Steampunk - oh, that's interesting. Empty, but just its presence is a strong indicator we may want to work on this! ((smiley}}
- https://documents.pub/document/gurps-steampunk-56c20888b59f9.html
- http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/steampunk/
- https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/classic/rev_5609.phtml
- https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/classic/rev_3645.phtml
- https://rpggeek.com/rpgseries/55174/gurps-steampunk
- http://www.warehouse23.com/products/gurps-steampunk-1-settings-and-style
- http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=1962
- https://www.victorianadventureenthusiast.com/index/vae-interviews-phil-masters/
- http://lfs.org/blog/interview-lfs-president-william-h-stoddard-on-fandom-freedom-favorite-novels-and-the-power-of-language/ - there are lots of William H.Stoddards out there, but this seems to be the right one.
- http://lfs.org/blog/interview-part-2-william-stoddard-on-the-challenges-rewards-and-future-of-the-prometheus-hall-of-fame/
- Conclusion:
I can't really find much independent reliable sources here. We could try to write Bill Stoddard in person, email at http://lfs.org
- Conclusion:
- Character Record Folio - by Green Ronin Publishing, 2001 Origins Award winner for Best Game Accessory
- Celtic Age - 2002 Origins Award winner for Best Role-Playing Supplement
- http://avalanchepress.com/gameCelticAge.php - home page
- https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10473.phtml
- https://www.enworld.org/threads/celtic-age.118664/
- Conclusion: not a lot for a standalone. We have Avalanche Press, but it's a huge list article. Also, this is a d20 supplement, and NewImpartial didn't want anything D&D.
- Codex Arcanis - 2007 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement of the Year
- Arcanis article exists
- Serenity Adventures - 2008 Origins Award winner for Best Role Playing Game Supplement
- Big Damn Heroes Handbook - 2009 Origins Award winner for Best Role Playing Game Supplement
- The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game, Volume One: Your Story - 2010 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Game
- The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game, Volume Two: Our World - 2010 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement
- We seem to already have an article about The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game which covers both of these?
- Arcanis: The World of Shattered Empires Roleplaying Game - 2011 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Game
- Arcanis article exists
- Runner's Toolkit - 2011 Origins Award winner for Best Gaming Accessory
- Civil War Essentials Event Book - 2012 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Supplement or Adventure