Is there, in existence, a list of all the systems that someone can pick up 'off the shelf' and use to make a game?
Obviously there is the 3.5e D&D OGL and the new 4e one and FATE. Is One Roll System on OGL-style distribution? Wordplay is, apparently, going to follow this model when it is released.
My mind has gone completely blank....
Neil
Off the top of my head
Submitted by Newt Newport on Sun, 12/07/2009 - 07:30.
True20 is OGL
ORE isn't. I think its more a contact Greg Stolze with your idea sort of deal.
MRQ &MongTraveller are OGL.
HeroQuest 2 is going to be if you want to produce non-gloranthan supplements, but not complete self-contained games.
Wordplay is comeing out under the Creative Commons liscense that allows you to do with it what thou will as long as you credit Graham Spearing, the author somewhere in the mix.
Oh and this little D100 game called OpenQuest which I've just released is completly OGL :)
http://d101games.co.uk/openquest
Regards
;O)Newt
D101games -An Imaginary Company
Clinton R. Nixon's SOLAR
Submitted by Andrew Kenrick on Sun, 12/07/2009 - 09:38.
Clinton R. Nixon's SOLAR system is available via creative commons too.
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Submitted by Tim Gray on Sun, 12/07/2009 - 12:15.
I don't think there's a list. It does come up every so often in an RPGnet thread, if you have mighty search fu.
In addition to those mentioned:
Savage Worlds now has free licensing. I think basically you have to show Pinnacle that you can be trusted with their property and then you can do what you want.
Newt mentioned True20... IIRC the content is OGL but you have to sort out a license if you want to badge it as True20, which I think is free subject to oversight as for SW.
You mentioned D&D 4e as OGL in the original post. It isn't. It has a different "GSL" which is all very murky (and has been throughout an extended process in which WotC messed third party publishers around something chronic).
But talking of D&D I think Pathfinder is OGL.
PDQ has a very relaxed licence, again of the free but with some oversight school.
Starblazers might well be.
Tim Gray
Silver Branch Games
www.silverbranch.co.uk