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Welcome to 1d6chan, a site devoted to the description and archival of all sorts of things interesting and relevant to /tg/ (the "traditional games" board of 4chan), including articles on fa/tg/uy culture, memes particular to (or at least commonly used on) /tg/, games and systems played by its browsers, interesting fluff thereof, and writing posted to the board. In addition to this, users are free to use the wiki to store information about online campaigns they are running, or as a platform for collaborative effort on homebrewn game systems or settings.

General content warning: old school 4chan-related nonsense.

See Frequently Asked Questions for answers to some obvious questions. If you’re wondering what the hell happened to 1d4chan and why we suddenly have 50% more sides to our die, please see Operation Meat Cube.

The wiki is hosted by Miraheze, and administered by Cool Dudes. If you need a moderator's attention, grab it on the Admin Noticeboard.

Are you new around here? Cool, we like new friends, and always need fresh meat for the grinder! Please make sure you familiarise yourself with our very simple Conduct guidelines laid out below. If you have any questions or issues, please don’t hesitate to contact us on the Admin Noticeboard, or for a quicker response and easier access to the wider community, consider joining the 1d6chan Editors’ Discord. For a list of admins, we have a list here.

Over the course of the history of 1d4chan, it had various backups and forks, none of which were consequential. After its unreliability began, and Root disappeared, the situation changed. Suddenly, the scattered and disparate backups of the old wiki were all we had of the culture and community that /tg/ had cultivated, sometimes despite itself, over the previous sixteen years.

When the final death occurred, and 1d4chan went offline permanently, I called together resources from multiple contributors to construct 1d6chan, including both image files and text, as well as the templates and extensions used by the previous site. Thanks to the continual work of a team of eight moderators and dozens of users, the site is now both usable and stable, and in turn we thank our generous hosts, Miraheze.

It is with some sadness but unity of purpose that the moderation staff of 1d6chan has decided to sever ties with the original backup of 1d4chan, called 2d4chan. Contact from the administrator of that site has proven that there is now an irreconcilable difference in the views of that site’s leadership and this one. While not all specifics are worth sharing, the admission of the 2d4chan administrator that his sole desire in continuing to mirror the original site is to preserve loli content that has been removed from this site indicates incompatibility with both the health of the hobby of traditional gaming, and with our vision of the future. This is coupled with a purge of the Campaign Namespace on the 2d4chan server, and opening the pages left to user modification, rendering it useless as an archive of the site-that-was. There is no reason to continue our association with 2d4chan.

Moving forward, 1d6chan will allow no exceptions in its rule to not depict sexualized children, as indeed it has not allowed for the past year. We are doing this not only because it is not a part of the hobby worth keeping, but because, clearly, there is now a place for those with such tastes to congregate far from fa/tg/uys worth knowing (and because it may run astray of the rules of our hosts, of course). While I am aware that the only reason such images accumulated on the wiki in the first place was because much of it was introduced in the context of /tg/ history, I am not interested in preserving those parts of our past, any more than I am in attracting people who would consciously seek it out.

More to the point, it is clearly superfluous. Despite the dire prognostications of doomsayers on /tg/, the wiki has not withered and died as a result of the removal of ten-year-old-images (in both senses of the word). On the contrary, our average total active user count and weekly edit and new page counts have actually increased since the wiki opened its doors almost a year ago. We continue to welcome new users, who most certainly are not here for content our FAQ specifically forbids, anyway.

User edits are also improving the health of the wiki. Thanks to the tireless work of our new moderators and hundreds of valued users, worthless pages are rapidly disappearing. Redirects and superfluous disambiguation pages are being trimmed, the namespaces work again, images uploaded to the site but not linked anywhere are being clipped, and our robust new backup regime has provided confidence in our ability to restore the site from disasters. A chain of command for our moderation staff has ensured that Miraheze can contact us any time they need, there is no confusion over the order of precedence for administrative direction, and users can get in touch with the people in charge at any time; all factors the previous incarnation of the site clearly lacked.

All this to say: we are not entering a new era of 1d6chan. Quite the opposite; we’ve been in the new era for a year, and it’s awesome. The trove of our past achievements and contemporary ideas is intact, enjoyed by many, and safe to explore. Of course, those pages that have gone unedited in over a decade or more remain snapshots of our history, and new pages are created almost every single day, while the ironing out of the mountain of backend issues left by the former regime has made the experience of actually using the wiki easier than it has been since at least 2021.

So, thanks, 1d6chan. Thanks for your patience, your content, your edits, your presence on the community Discord, and your interest.

MaulMachine (talk) 22:05, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Whilst 1d6chan is more lax compared to other wikis, even we have some basic standards needed to ensure that the wiki remains legible. Here is a list of conduct for you newbies to learn before you go and edit:

• Are you literate?: A pretty ridiculous question, right? But unfortunately, this is a question that remains very relevant from time to time. Basic understanding of the English language is critical for your edits to be taken seriously. The editors here are willing to fix god-honest mistakes here and there, after all, we are all human, and sometimes we may miss on a grammatical error from here and there. The problem begins when entire paragraphs become completely unreadable due to a mixture of:
  • Lack of capitalisation.
  • Inconsistent use of capitalisation (i.e. space MaRine).
  • Severe and repeated spelling mistakes.
  • Lack of commas or any sentence breaks.
  • Lack of paragraphs resulting in a giant wall of text.
  • Sentences that just don't make any sense.
  • Using a language other than English (since our primary audience, /tg/, is an English board).

The only exception to the rule is if the spelling is done either in American or British English. Words like Realise and Realize are both considered correct under either of the two spellings, so unless you have super OCD, we should be pretty chill if you're writing an article in either the American or British variety. Other than that, if you are a genuine ESL and want to genuinely contribute, then the only advice we can give you is to type whatever you want on Grammarly or any type of grammar-correction software, correct your mistakes and then Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V on the page you want to edit. It is not 1d6chan's or the other editor's responsibilities to help fix your mess. You have to make sure the shit you type in is readable or else your edits are going to automatically be reverted.

• AI-generated text is no replacement for something written by a human, and is not permitted on 1d6chan. It’s lazy and pointless, if you can’t be bothered to spend a few minutes writing something then you’re in the wrong place.
• AI-generated images are not permitted in Mainspace articles: While we do not mind you using AI generated art for Campaigns you are running, for character sheets and such, they are not allowed in articles about canonical entities, real world intellectual properties, etc etc. Please refrain from using them outside of your own projects, limited to the Campaign: namespace, or indeed your own User: pages. (Minor exception, because it's becoming more common: If somebody else is using AI art and attempts to charge money for the result, it's okay to use those to mock them.)
• Strikethroughs are heavily frowned upon: Strikethroughs are generally heavily frowned upon, as it makes entire pages completely unreadable and it just looks fucking ugly to look at. The only exception to the rule is if the strikethrough is intentional and is meant to be part of a joke. And even then, 1d6chan has a limit on how much strikethroughs we can tolerate. Creating a strikethrough to win an argument is one of the quickest ways to get your edits reverted. If you don't know what a strikethrough is, it looks like this: Space Marines are Mary Sues.
• No egoboos: 1d6chan is NOT for pages dedicated to specific browsers of /tg/, namefag or tripfag, regardless of how well-known or liked/disliked they are. The only exception to this is the drawfag page, which may list known drawfags and describe their usual subject matter. Please refrain from qualitative analysis of a given drawfag's talents or personality, as drama will inevitably ensue.
• This is a wiki, not a forum: 1d6chan might be tongue-in-cheek, but even we have some basic professionalism here. Always remember that 1d6chan is a wiki. It is a website meant to inform the readers on random shit. It is not meant to be a forum for various sides to argue and bitch about. So no "Well Achsually" edits here. If you really disagree with the information written here, at least try to re-paraphrase the entire sentence that fits what you are trying to say without veering off into an argumentative debate.
• No wars in the article: When editing a page in 1d6chan, always remember that there are other folks who are really passionate on the things they do, that includes opinions as well. If you find yourself in an edit war or anything similar with another user, move your argument to the article's discussion page. It is best to find a compromise at all cost if possible. If you observe a dispute over an article and have an opinion one way or the other about it, comment on the discussion. Whatever you do, always keep the dispute in a civil manner. Whilst most users here are thick-skin enough to handle an ad hominem attack here and there, it is generally frowned upon to start spamming expletives repeatedly, going to the user's talk page and continuing on with abuse or start to flame other users caught in the general direction. Do NOT act like an abrasive asshole. Even if your arguments are sound, you are not winning anyone over if you act like this. 1d6chan is not your personal psychiatrist, so the only advice we can give to you in such an event that makes you heated, is to step back, cool off, and then return and try to de-escalate and find a compromise with the other disputer if possible. If the disputer remains stubborn and unable to compromise, then the next appropriate cause of action is to escalate this to MaulMachine, where Maul and other users can judge on who is in the wrong. MaulMachine prefers to get input from as many people as possible before he has to make some sort of administrative decision about a given issue. (See also How to win an edit war.)
• No vandalism will be tolerated: While this might on the surface, looks like another "No Shit" rule. It is still something that needs to be stressed. If you are new here, especially if you are an anon, please be careful when you want to delete massive blocks of text that you may disagree with. Whenever a large chunk of information gets deleted, it is one of the quickest ways for everyone to raise an eyebrow. If you have a reason on why you would want a large section of information deleted, before you publish your edits, please write down why you want that information deleted on the Summary bar right below the edit box. Doing so helps keep other editors informed that you are a genuine editor and not a vandal, bot or troll, which may save you from being accused of the latter and get unceremoniously permabanned. Do take note that you may be dealing with grizzled editors who have been editing this website for several years to over a decade, and they have seen enough mass brigading of vandals from the past to instinctively revert any of your edits if they are uninformed. Do also take note that some editors may not like your deletions, so be prepared to have this dispute being discussed in the discussion page.
• Learn how to image format: Us folks at 1d6chan love our images. But simply uploading an image is not enough. You must learn how to properly format it. Nobody likes it when an image takes up half the entire page, because you simply couldn't be assed to properly resize it. Editors would also get annoyed if you add in a thumbnail but couldn't be bothered to write anything in it. Thumbnails exist to write a brief descriptor, so write anything in it, or don't bother with the thumbnail to begin with. Whilst your image edits won't be as reactionary as some of the problems written above, it is still considered intensely annoying to other editors around here.
• Make sure that new pages are relevant to 1d6chan: If you want to create a new page, make sure that the contents are actually relevant to either /tg/, 4chan, or at the very least, nerddom as a whole.
• Campaigns in the Campaign: namespace: If you intend to use the wiki as storage for pages about your campaign, your main page should be at Campaign:Name and other related pages should be at Campaign:Name/Stuff. Your pages should also link to each other to avoid them appearing on the orphaned pages list. The Cool Dudes won't punish users for forgetting to do this, but it helps keep the wiki tidy!
  • Use the Setting: namespace for articles related to homebrew (as opposed to official) settings, following the same syntax.
• Deleting pages: If you find a page that needs deleting, put the {{deletion}} template on it (by including that markup at the top of the page) and it will be added to the deletion category. Pages that should be deleted are pages for campaigns that are no longer running or no longer needed for that campaign, and pages of very low quality or subject matter unrelated to /tg/. Note that the criteria for "related to /tg/" is somewhat lax, and well-written pages that justify even a tangential relation to /tg/ are likely to be allowed to remain. ({{offtopic}} is your friend here.)
• Block Policy: See the Policy page for a clarification of what behaviors are considered block-worthy. In short: vandalism and (excessive) edit-warring warrants a block of a few days, and link-spammers get permanently blocked. Use the talk page instead of the "undo" link.
• External links: If you need to make a link to an external site, please observe the following restrictions:
  • It must comply with the rules of our host, Miraheze.
  • It must comply with the rules of 1d6chan.
  • It must fit the topic, and be both relevant and potentially useful to someone looking for further reading.
  • Don’t be linking to sites to advance a personal agenda of any kind.
  • Keep them in the “See Also” section at the bottom of the article.
    • And finally, if you feel compelled to link to an article on another wiki, wherever possible we would prefer that you use either Wikipedia or TVTropes, one of the two is good enough 99% of the time, and they’re usually a safe bet not to piss too many people off. If you need to use a different one, make sure it’s within the rules of the other site first.