core
By bindrpg
LiminalHorror
By GoblinArchives
| core | LiminalHorror | |
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| 16 | 1 | |
| - | 11 | |
| - | - | |
| - | 8.6 | |
| - | 5 days ago | |
| SCSS | ||
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
core
Posts with mentions or reviews of core.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-12.
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Playtesting Problem: Players are happy
Copyright is brain damage. The book's source files are fully open, and everyone is welcome to copy everything.
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S6 RPG System (Open Source / Creative Commons)
Or for a pure TeX compile, there's mine.
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Lend me your intuitions: Is this ugly?
That's good phrasing, and pretty much where the current draft is at.
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ChronichlesRPG: A Public Domain Tabletop RPG System
For my own rpg, I went with LaTeX. It's less inviting, but you get more control over the output pdf.
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Typst, an alternative to LaTeX, is now open source
It was once in Scribus, but nothing else can do what LaTeX does. I've just pushed to the master branch.
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BIND: The Hackable Dark Fantasy
The source files will always be open (including layout, images, et c.), so you can change rules you don't like, add spells, and everyone else can take a copy of your changes if they like them. Source files available here.
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A hackable RPG for RPG hackers
Download this, put in your name, character name, add points until the XP total reaches 0 (it tracks what you spend), then add items from the drop-down menus.
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On the topic of licensing, why not use the GNU Free Documentation License?
This is why.
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Recommendations on RPGs that aren't under WotC OGL?
There is such a thing as CC0 artwork so I'm not sure where the difficulty is. There are even open source TTRPGs with artwork in them such as BIND. There are even CC0 licensed video games with the artwork also licensed as CC0, one even was announced today!
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Open Source Like
Source
LiminalHorror
Posts with mentions or reviews of LiminalHorror.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-05.
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Open Source Like
That's certainly an option. Games like Liminal Horror and Into the Dungeon Revived host versions on GitHub. You can then render it to a GitHub.io page using something like Just the Docs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing core and LiminalHorror you can also consider the following projects:
oneshot
itdr - Into the Dungeon: Revived — Rules for fantastic adventure games playable with paper and pencil and polyhedral dice.
EXP_Documents - Sciency fiction table top RPG documentation. Asciidoc to HTML site generation using Antoradocs.
typst.nvim - WIP. Goals: Treesitter highlighting, snippets, and a smooth intergration with neovim.
just-the-docs - A modern, high customizable, responsive Jekyll theme for documentation with built-in search.