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Open Source role playing games?

post #1 of 5
5/1/09 at 4:42pm
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I listen to a podcast called Have Games, Will Travel, and the author talks about a lot of different games you can snag for absolutely free under the Creative Commons licensing scheme or the open source d20. I found a few good websites where you can learn about some of these games:

http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Major_Projects
http://www.tenthousandworlds.org/
http://www.rpg-awards.com (you have to drill into the site to find some of the games, but there are TONS here I never heard of before)

Do any of you still do pen-and-paper RPGs, and if so, have you taken any of these out for a test drive?
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post #2 of 5
5/1/09 at 4:49pm
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One that you may enjoy if you liked Battle Royale:

http://www.atarashigames.com/ghostsh...retail%201.pdf

(right click, "Save as...")
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post #3 of 5
5/1/09 at 4:54pm
The old West End Games d6 system -- the one they used for their Star Wars RPG -- is supposed to be coming out as an open source system as well.
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post #4 of 5
5/1/09 at 4:58pm
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ooooo, that sounds pretty cool! So many systems have borrowed elements from the d6 WEG Star Wars games it's not even funny (Shadowrun in particular, I am looking at you!) I think it would be very fun to put some time into developing a new game using that system for sure.

You ever try out any of these other new-fangled free games?
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post #5 of 5
5/1/09 at 5:10pm
No, my group always played purchased stuff. I have PDFs of a couple of free games -- mostly d20 variants from the 3rd Edition days when WOTC was a lot less anal about the OGL -- but we could barely get together to play the mainstream games, so they're collecting virtual dust on my hard drive.
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