• BIND's Story Point System

    calendar Apr 11, 2022 · 5 min read · RPG BIND

    The Problem While I'd hope to rock up at the gaming table and just game with friends, the DM had other ideas. Everyone had to write a character back-story. Having three jobs at the time, I didn't feel enamoured with my homework, but a while later, I had read enough about the campaign world to begin writing something …


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  • The OGL is not Open

    calendar Mar 22, 2022 · 4 min read · BIND RPG Design FOSS

    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'. No Real Books The OGL specifically excludes Product Identity. "Product Identity" means product and product line names, logos and identifying marks including trade …


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  • RPG Stuff only LaTeX Does

    calendar Mar 2, 2022 · 7 min read · RPG BIND Typography

    Environments In Word and Acrobat, you can make some limited environments, like a header. But in LaTeX, you can make literally any type of environment you want. Need 10 encounter environments? Just make one macro. Arranging some encounter table then copy/ pasting it and filling in new monsters doesn't sound like a lot …


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