It's no secret that a certain game by Wizards of the Coast dominates the tabletop scene, but as we all grapple with the potential changes that are allegedly in the works for the Open Game License(OGL) going forward, its worth looking around at the vast communities of ttrpg systems available without the looming threat of a multinational corporation. 

Create content for (or based on) games that are not on the verge of destroying all their good will with players through some questionable legal changes to the fair use of their IP!

Submission Rules

• Make supplements or games based on tabletop games published with an open license or something to that effect
• Submissions should be published under Creative Commons or something akin to the Anti-Capitalist Software License
• Submissions should probably align with any necessities of the license its built on but: I am not a lawyer. I refuse to police intellectual property. Anyone who does is a narc.
• Bonus points if you talk to someone who only/primarily plays D&D to find out what they like about it and then try to make something to fill that need in another system.

Examples:

Here are some open licenses or lists by other people. Not a bad idea to doublecheck because, again I am not a lawyer.

• "Mark of the Odd SRD" from "Into the Odd" by Chris McDowall
• "Swords of the Mist d20 Edition"
• list of Open Game Systems on wiki.rpg.net
• Twitter thread with more examples: link
• This thread where you can share ones you haven't seen mentioned: link

Warning:

Be careful of systems which themselves rely on the D&D OGL. A lot of stuff should still be fair game but just be careful out there. Or don't because you're not really punk if you don't skirt copyright laws at least a little bit.

Disclaimer:

I am not a lawyer.

Also, I do respect indie artists and marginalized people who use copyright law to protect their work. I just think that copyright law is primarily used by huge corporations to hoard billions of dollars in intellectual property and that in a better system people wouldn't need to make popular and profitable art in order to survive. As in so many things, if its a chain its free reign (not a lawyer). And probably don't pirate from independent artists because no theory is truly sound if it doesn't take into account the material lives of actual everyday people. I will get off of my soapbox now.

Also no NFTs you wanks.

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