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

Show Me in the Module

I have a beef with chonky source books that say ‘changelings do this’, and ‘always describe the traps, don’t just say 1D6 trap-damage’, and then expecting the reader to create the world in adherence to these principles.

The Problems with D&D

A lot of the motivation for writing this book was because A,D&D never seemed to live up to its promises. The newer editions were a clear improvement, but never seemed to release the original game’s shackles.

LaTeX + Git vs Google Docs

People who want to work with others on an RPG naturally tend towards Google docs. It seems so easy. They send the link out, people make edit suggestions, and you click ‘approve’ or ‘deny’. Everyone’s generating spells, and spelling corrections at 100 kph, and it all looks great.