Software engineers regularly jump into others' open source, and help out, but the RPG community do not do the same, because they do not have the right tools. Look throughout the history of any number of software projects and you'll find a slew of apparently random people, unknown to the software's creator, jumping in …

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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 …

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A few RPG creators might make bank, but for the most part, we don't. For the most part, people don't even want to make it their entire career - they have a particular vision of a game they want to make. I think if indie designers want to see their ideas succeed, they should release them and start working with others, …

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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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The famous term 'fantasy heartbreaker' was coined by Ron Edwards and refers to the massive number of D&D-like RPGs on the market which: People have poured their hearts into Aren't very good Have some great ideas Fail to really get away from D&D I see the problem, and therefore solution, very differently. …

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