On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, John Kim wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
> > At 01:24 PM 8/25/00 +0200, Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I wonder if anyone is planning on releasing any RPG under GFDL?
> >
> > Lycadican is released under one of the open documentation licenses,
> > and there are reportedly a few others. It's easy to find Lycadican
> > by searching Google for that word.
>
> I have a web page with over 200 free RPG links on it. Of
> course, only a fraction of those are released as GFDL. There are
> three that I recall are released as GNU-like free documentation:
>
> "Lycadican" http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican/
> "Circe" http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/circe/
> "Osprey" http://www.mindspring.com/~archer7/rpg.html
>
> However, there are a lot of ones there that I barely know.
> If you are interested, you can check out my page at
>
> http://www.ps.uci.edu/~jhkim/rpg/freerpgs/index.html
>
Cool. Thanks for listing Circe; I released it under GFDL several months
back and have gotten some good feedback. I had always felt like RPG
systems should be open content, but none of the current ones were
sufficiently so, so I wrote my own. :-)
Presently I'm leading a group of people who are building an online
open-source computer RPG called WorldForge. We'll be using Circe as the
basis of the rules for that game.
Some people have wondered whether it makes sense to allow people to use
Circe openly like this. The fact of the matter is that there's already
so many RPG's out there (many of them quite good) that there just isn't
enough money in gaming to do it commercially - you'd need to be a guru
marketer rather than a guru-gamemaker, IMHO. But, because people can
modify and reuse the Circe rules freely, I'm able to garner submissions
for people in a fair give-and-take situation not unlike how Linux and
other open source software projects work. I don't care about the small
bits of money; it's more important to me that people get the rules in
the manner that they like and need.
Because the rules are freely available, people aren't limited to printed
copies provided by me. I simply wouldn't have the resources to print
out nice copies of the rules and ship them everywhere in the world. But
because they're available for free, a group of fans could get together
and print out their own special versions (perhaps with a leather cover,
or with house rules added, or whatnot). I think that's pretty cool.
--
Bryce Harrington
bryce @ neptune.net
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