I've found myself aghast at the multiple (not loads, but still) conversations I've had online where I've proposed an open-source RPG, and I'm told that this really isn't adding much, because people can already copy systems.

I have personally copied a system. I have rewritten White Wolf's rules so that I could modify …

I warned ye!

but did you listen to me?

Oh no...

you knew didn't ye?

It's just a harmless little licence, isn't it?

...sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

I've implied all this heavily in other writing, but just to be clear, here is the game plan for BIND.

Firstly, BIND doesn't matter. I want to see an open-source RPG that's actually open source.

I want to see the community able to break away from a corporation telling them what they can do, and just make their own …

A player rolls the dice, and the table watches the result, like a roulette ball bouncing about. Rothgar has a +4 to make the jump, but the chasm demands a Target Number (TN) of 12.

The player rolls 2D6...

1               (( _______
2     _______     /\O    O\
3    /O     /\   /  \      \
4   /   O  /O \ / O  \O____O\ …

Game designers often lecture (or bemoan) that nobody can possibly make a realistic game. But in the words of Queen Victoria, I am not interested in the possibility of failure.

Instead of looking at 'is this showing what would happen if you really mounted a dragon while wearing armour', I prefer to look simply at the …

My favourite word-game is Ghost.

1. You go round in a circle, each person stating a letter, which builds to a word.
2. If someone completes a word of four or more letters, they lose.
3. If someone receives a set of letters which cannot complete a word, they can challenge the person before them.
   • If the person before states a …

My favourite WoD RPG will always be Changeling. I've run one campaign, and I wish I had time to run more.

I don't know if I'll ever have time to re-write it, like I did with Vampire, but I have plenty of concrete plans for changes.

Seelie vs Unseelie

The book began by saying 'Seelie' does not mean 'good', and …

So there you are, storytelling a twisted tale of modern horror about a coterie of vampires, when an odd ability crops up. One of your players has focused on controlling people so much with the Dominate Discipline that she can now enter other people's bodies, taking them over as if they were her own.

So we know that the …