FOSS

Open Source RPGs

Sneaky RPG creator often trick people into thinking their books are open source by just giving a book away for free, and slapping the word ‘open’ on it (or using the ‘open’ gaming licence).

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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’.

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The Open Source RPG Dream

The cynics say that we keep reinventing the wheel. They say we have too many RPGs, mostly doing the same thing, and why bother to write yet another RPG about elves and magic swords?

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