BIND is a fantasy tabletop RPG designed to solve a number of problems:

Problem: Character backstories are a pain.
- Solution: Story Points
Problem: Players never engage in the adventure in the right way; when they should go left, they always go right, but railroading them never gives good results.
- Solution: Side Quests
Problem: Standard fantasy stories contain long-term wounds in their narratives, while fantasy RPG mechanics effectively prohibit them.
- Solution: Fate Points
Problem: Everyone makes house rules, which results in a bunch of D&D clones.
- Solution: Open Source

Download

Source Code:

https://gitlab.com/bindrpg/

Supplementary Books

A Oneshot to introduce new players.
A Complete Campaign with about twelve stories.

Requirements

All repos have the following dependencies:

git-lfs
texlive (loads of packages)
inkscape
make

New Handouts

BIND’s maps have their numbers and comments applied by its writing tool, LaTeX. This makes handouts really easy, because the same map can present different layers to different people.

The Problem

While I’d hope to rock up at the gaming table and just game with friends, the DM had other ideas. Everyone had to write a character back-story. Having three jobs at the time, I didn’t feel enamoured with my homework, but a while later, I had read enough about the campaign world to begin writing something that could fit into it.

Fate Points in BIND

Remember that book or film where the protagonist received a nasty wound, then persevered, and won the day? Well that can’t happen in RPGs, and that’s a shame. So my solution is Fate Points (FP).