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

  • Problem: Character backstories are a pain.
  • 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.
  • Problem: Standard fantasy stories contain long-term wounds in their narratives, while fantasy RPG mechanics effectively prohibit them.
  • Problem: Everyone makes house rules, which results in a bunch of D&D clones.

Download

Source Code:

https://gitlab.com/bindrpg/

Supplementary Books

Requirements

All repos have the following dependencies:

git-lfs
texlive (loads of packages)
inkscape
make

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