The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
oneshot
Posts with mentions or reviews of oneshot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
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Typst, an alternative to LaTeX, is now open source
The adventures automatically generate a random creature, so you can put down \goblin and a random goblin appears.
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Have I made an OSR?
Surely that's defined in Adventures as much as the core book, no?
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Escape from the Goblin Horde: A Dark Fantasy Module
Direct Link to PDF
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing oneshot and core you can also consider the following projects:
typst.nvim - WIP. Goals: Treesitter highlighting, snippets, and a smooth intergration with neovim.
awesome-tabletop-rpgs - Awesome list of free and/or open source tabletop RPGs
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
EXP_Documents - Sciency fiction table top RPG documentation. Asciidoc to HTML site generation using Antoradocs.
isometric-map-icons
itdr - Into the Dungeon: Revived — Rules for fantastic adventure games playable with paper and pencil and polyhedral dice.
LiminalHorror
s6rpg - Welcome to S6, the action-packed role-playing game that will take you on a thrilling journey through a world of danger and adventure!
aif