BIND is a grunge-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: Threads
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

Random Encounters Disarm Chekov's Gun

Chekov’s gun poses a real threat to some games. If a group playing Vampire: The Masquerade (‘VtM’) encounter a Ravnos, spinning illusions, and confusing mortals, then the next time they hear about unusual events, they will assume that the Ravnos did this. Clearly - the Ravnos is part of the plot! After all, VtM draws heavily from literature; or rather, it draws a lot from the idea-spaces of people who like to analyse literature while telling you that they analyse literature.

Railroading: The Definitive Definition

Railroading chat devolves into nonsense, as people are working with unclear definitions. Here’s the solution:

The OGL is not Open

The Open Gaming Licence (OGL) does not in fact produce terribly open games, so I wish people would stop referring to such RPGs as ‘open source’.