Once upon a time, there was an imageboard. That imageboard, 4chan, was (and still usually is) bad. Out of the bad, there arose a board named /tg/, Traditional Games. Traditional Games are things like card games, board games, roleplaying games, wargames, and tactical games (mainly because "Warhammer Wednesday" threads were spilling over into Friday and Saturday in size). Because it arose from being bad, /tg/ was also bad. However, because you can't play traditional games without being creative, some of that badness was itself creative, and so a place to store our creations was needed. Enter 1d4chan.

1d4chan was the creation of Root, previously known as Wikifag. Root, who for many years acted as the sole operator and proprietor of the wiki, was a distant and unapproachable master (and we'll touch on why that was very bad in the future). 1d4chan's fortunes waxed and waned; activity burst into living color and faded with the release of new editions of games and series of books and miniatures.

The site went through many facelifts and modifications over its fifteen long years of being bad, until it approached a state of being less bad, by dint of having such sheer volume of content therein. Sturgeon's Law and all that. Then, problems arose.

See, the problem with Root being unapproachable at the best of times meant that when something went wrong with the website, there was no recourse for actually getting in touch with him. When the site went down, when there was a spammer that was overloading the site, when there was an edit war, or any other issue where there being more than one possible person in charge would have helped, users were left to fend for themselves. Wikis work by such a means that consensus is the only way anything can attain permanence, which is fine in theory. In practice, one determined spammer could wear down the attention span of the entire site if they wanted to be disruptive.

Then, the tech problems began. Glitchy upgrades, hardware faults, network outages, and more plagued the site. Between early 2021 and the final death in November of 2023, the wiki went down five times, three of them for over a month. From this untenable status quo was born the Meat Cube.

Operation Meat Cube^[1] was a plan, originally concocted by longtime /tg/ contributor Someone else. !!5eEG00IMHx+. After the fourth disruption of the site in March of 2023, Someone else. !!5eEG00IMHx+, who had long been a part of the old site's Editors' Discord (itself a reflexive reaction to the total absence of communication from Root), said that he would create a new wiki if Root never turned back up to reactivate 1d4chan. Ultimately, he did, but the fifth outage was different. Instead of simply displaying an nginx error, which would indicate a functional but inaccessible site, 1d4chan began returning altogether other errors, including messages from the host proclaiming that there was no site to be found at the old address. Operation Meat Cube began in earnest, as Someone else. !!5eEG00IMHx+ and a handful of other editors pulled dumps of the old wiki, shopped around for a new host, and began the laborious process of uploading everything to that new host.

And now, here we are. The new wiki is a near-identical clone of the old one, with only a few things removed, like some images that were not compliant with the Miraheze Content Policy^[2]. Some pages will be locked or blanked, but very few. There are well over 46000 files on the site, and we deleted fewer than 200 of them.

1d6chan is the wiki for the community of /tg/, but more importantly, for its projects. Campaigns? Maps? Settings? Notes pages for DMs? It's all that, and more.