RPG Site idea
One the biggest things with running an RPG, at least from the GM’s perspective, is getting ideas and source material. This usually comes in the form of books that list abilities, attributes, character flaws, political makeup of worlds, and items.
My thought is to create an open content hybrid voting site/wiki for RPG content. So it would kinda work like Stack Overflow in that you submit items/content and the community rates them. It could use something like the JAGS 2 gaming system and be under a creative commons share-alike. (They would also be editable by members of the community, like a wiki.)
So basically there would be forms to submit items, abilities, etc. Tags could be used to categorize them into the correct worlds themes, and then the top rated content could be periodically play tested, possibly using some automated tests as well (create a bunch of random characters and have them fight….) The user created content for items and abilities would, of course, be linked to a character sheet generator for JAGS 2 or whatever gaming system we choose to implement.
It may be interesting to attempt to publish a “best of” book occasionally after all the items/user content has been aggregated.
It should also have an interactive lobby type thing for people to play games online, in addition to doing it table top.
Amazon mechanical turk might be usable to jumpstart plot hooks, items, settings, finding duplicates, etc.