New Open-Source Tabletop RPG

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 9, 2004 @06:42AM from the if-wick-likes-the-thing-it-can't-be-all-bad dept.

ClintonRNixon writes "A new open-source tabletop RPG has been released, The Shadow of Yesterday. People have been putting RPGs online for free for years, and Wizards of the Coast has their Open Game License, but this is the first time a game has been written and published using only open-source tools, and is published under a Creative Commons license. To make the online version, vi and Python Docutils were used; the published game was laid out using Scribus, The Gimp, and OpenOffice."

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Re:GPL Tools? by OAB_X · 2004-12-09 07:45 · Score: 2, Funny

It has some value. Academically, it shows what can be done with open source tools

As previously mentioned, pen and paper is the ultimate in open source. You can modify your pen without breaking the liscense, decompile it, recompile it, change it, mod it, refil it, upgrade it, and no-one will care.

Paper is also the uultimate in open source. Its been around for a few thousand years so there is no patent on paper anymore. You can find how it works by just looking at it. Its a flat surface where people write on using the open-source device above called a pen.

You don't even need to use comercial software to get the boards printed. Just make a nice board, go down to your local Office Place/Stables/Buisness Depot and ask them to run you off a few thousand copies of your board game. Made with the pen/paper. Multiple colours of pen may be used. Or even paint, which can be manufactured using ground up plants and rock. Its been around for even longer then paper or pen has.

But more importantly, if you want to modify the content, you know you won't have to buy any software to do it.

I never knew. So those new question cards for Trivial Pursuit, my new Monopoly land deed prices and community chest cards, and that board game I made back in grade 3 (using OSS materials known as pen/paper) was all done using software? Im shocked.

Does not windows come with a built in word processor (Wordpad/Notepad), an image editor (msPaint), and printing drivers so that you can use your printer to run off copies of the game?