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

Having a Bash at Travel in BIND

They say you have to playtest, but they forget that I’m a lazy man, so when it came to travel rules, I didn’t feel like simulating a bunch of journeys. So it’s time to get the computer to do the work for me.

Only a Company Can Make an RPG

The RPG scene has repeatedly laughed, cried, or tooted about the various articles on ‘indie RPGs’ which are in fact made by corporations. But even the smallest, the most indie of the indie-RPGs, has a credits page at the start. Any one-person-show (something with no credits beyond its singular author) wouldn’t have an editor; and any book without an editor desperately needs one.

Open Source RPGs

New RPG creators and tech-startups both enjoy giving themselves the badge of ‘open source’ without having to open up a single source file. In the tech world, they call the company ‘Open AI’, and in the RPG space, they call their licence the ‘open gaming licence’, or simply declare they have an ‘open RPG’, then let people infer their good intentions from the name alone. This shallow illusion has bamboozled just as many RPG enthusiasts as tech optimists.