Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

New Open-Source Tabletop RPG

Posted by Zonk on 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."

1 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Common Definitions by zephiros · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the game uses a reductionist damage system, which only consists of three levels (normal, bloodied, broken). The ill-named "stay up" stat is apparently used to determine whether or not a particular activity causes a character to transition from one damage state to the next.

    While it's not as sophisticated as, say, the old Cyberpunk 2020 damage system, it certainly isn't a "Big Red Bar" system.