Browse 1235 works in the catalog.
Free, libre and open licensed or public domain
A supers retroclone.
The abridged but functional rules for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
A whimsical movie where three rodents get their just deserts.
Details about all the countries of the world.
Inspired by the good old Chuck Jones cartoons, this very short movie shows the problems a little guanaco (llama cousin) has when trying to cross the roads of Southern Patagonia, in South America.
A Dixit-like multiplayer online game.
GPL
A crowdfunded documentary about the effects of privatisation.
A song arguing that copyright violation is not theft.
An RPG based on Apocalypse World for dungeoncrawling adventure.
OGL
Humanity’s Open-Source Automated Precision Farming Machine
MIT
A light version of the fractal role-playing game Fate.
OGL
Fellowship is a game for 3-6 players about going on an adventure, in the same vein as Lord of the Rings or Wakfu or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The system is loosely based on the Apocalypse Engine.
A Beatles classic that squeaked into the public domain just before the term was extended.
Classic novel of a sea captain on the hunt for a great white whale.
A performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
First published in 1970 by Oxford University Press, this classic study has been hailed as "the single most authoritative work on oral literature”.
A set of pieces you can use to play many games.
'Sahipkıran is a fast and easy-to-learn, mini-agnostic tabletop wargame which you can use your miniature figures to fight battles with.'
A single - remixed multiple times - released by Dan Bull. #9 in the UK Independent chart.
These African-inspired artworks were created for the tabletop RPG Spears of the Dawn.
A whimsical children's picturebook.
A wiki that describes thousands of supernatural powers.
The first book in an epic fantasy series.
Build your own house.
A video site.
A percentile RPG on a single page where player characters consist of 3 attributes (Violence, Elegance and Intelligence), a profession, a one-sentenced description of their wishes and weaknesses and two hit points (body and insanity).
1923 is a year-long zine publication by Parker Higgins distributed on paper to 100 subscribers and online to the world. It was funded through a Kickstarter campaign in January 2019.
Featuring all your favourite Open Source Heroes and Heroines, these are some of the people who have done most to exemplify or further the cause of a more open, collaborative or more freedom-conscious approach to working, thinking and licensing.
'24XX is the free version of the rules used by the 2400 series of RPGs.'
A piecepack set that can be printed.
A universal RPG.
"A Byte of Python" is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience.
A definition of terms like open source, crowdsourcing, gratis and shareable content.
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Here’s a game I made over the summer, inspired by but not entered into Game Chef, but I never got around to posting it here. It’s a mashup [of] Archipelago and some boardgame mechanics, where you explore an abandoned space ship.
This is an expansion of the (soon to be) award winning Fate Core, focussing on the process of collaborative world building. It includes some of the concepts found in The Spark RPG and helps you build an engaging setting with a history, fraught with danger and potential for growth.
Hard boiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir with squishy (and doomed, of course) romantic bits.
A freeform game inspired by Dark Sun.
A survey about people's conception of copyright.
A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
“(R)ecommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research.”
Six "impossible things": GNU/Linux, Wikipedia, the Creative Commons, the Blender Foundation, Open Hardware, and the OLPC/Sugar project. All created under free licenses for everyone to use, in defiance of our conventional ideas of business economics. Is it magic, coincidence, or just plain common sense at work here?
'A book that arouses children's interest in tinkering and encourages shaping technology.'
AdventureLand is a small, 4 pages RPG [written] in a hurry (about 6 hours) for advanced role-players.
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Adventures on Dungeon Planet is a science fantasy supplement for the award-winning role-playing game Dungeon World.
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A fiction author.
[A]n encyclopedic reference about aerogels, how-to guides for making aerogels and building a do-it-yourself supercritical dryer, the world's most comprehensive aerogel image gallery, a podcast with the world's leading aerogel scientists, and more.
A game where you try to prevent an apocalypse.
GPL
Kinsella [argues] that the very existence of patents are contrary to a free market, and adds in here copyrights and trademarks too.
A blog on intellectual property.
An electronic sketching program.
GPL
A modified d20 game set in its own universe.
OGL
A comprehensive word game system.
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My name is Barry Deutsch, and I write and draw Ampersand, a political comic with a generally progressive sensibility.
This web page holds an anarchist FAQ. Its aim is to present what anarchism really stands for and indicate why you should become an anarchist.
GNU FDL
A collection of readings on open education with commentary.
Awesome Turn Based Strategy. Master Your Beasts!
AGPL
A one-track album.
A fast-paced RPG inspired by manga and anime.
A wiki to share designs of all sorts.
Arcemu is an MMORPG server framework project which currently supports World of Warcraft 3.3.5a
AGPL
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
Arcmage is a free open source card game.
GPL
Embedded development platform
GPL
LGPL
A World of Dungeons hack that allows you to play post-apoc sci-fi.
Welcome to Fort Biloxi. Your parents have sent you to military school to help you focus". What could be scarier than military school? How about being one of the new kids? Luckily, you have a cunning plan. You and the other new kids (the other players) are going to try to get expelled so you can go back to public school with all your friends."
Small Toad – youngest student of Master Iron Willow – gave the rarest tea flower in Master Iron Willow's considerable collection to a passing beauty.
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A fantasy setting for tabletop role-playing games.
An album created as part of a copyright course.
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A fully-featured card game
GPL
A fantasy RPG.
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'Encounter the peculiar folks who reside within and help solve their problems while confronting your own relationships & fears.'
A Fiasco playset about backstabbing nuns.
The game is played by 2 to 4 players, who become taxi drivers in some city. They compete to gather the highest income by carrying passengers.
Balloon Diaspora is a 3D point-and-click adventure game with music by Oliver Blank. Explore a foreign culture, make new friends and ride through the clouds in a hot air balloon.
MIT
Once assembled, this kit -- developed by community researchers from the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science -- enables you to collect your own aerial photos from up to 1000 ft.
CERN OHL
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A fusion of Basic D&D with D&D 3E to create a simple, light-weight game.
OGL
'Battle aXe is a fantasy mass combat supplement for old school tabletop role-playing games, and their clones.'
Tattooed hunters of beasts use their fiendish blood for sorcery.
Beginning Titan is a comprehensive guide to Titan database.
'BibServer is a tool for quickly and easily sharing collections of bibliographic metadata.'
A book for children introducing them to words and concepts.
Why Creative Commons matters.
A game where you protect island inhabitants from skeletons.
GPL
Biodigital is a novel, first published as an Ebook via Unglue.it, about a Silicon Valley tech genius/messiah and the quasi-religious cult of transhumanist computer designers and brain hackers who follow him.
'a free, open gaming system that enables anyone to play and create fantasy tabletop worlds, adventures, and sourcebooks'
ORC
Tabletop RPG of heists.
'Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite'
GPL
Blood, Guts & Glory is a pen-and-paper role-playing game of fantasy adventure. As the name would suggest, the game is in a somewhat "gritty" mould with the emphasis on visceral combat where you get specific injuries such as broken bones, torn muscles, burns and the like.
A LARP about the French and American battles before the War of Independence. 11 players.
Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
Brigandine is a 28mm skirmish-level fantasy wargame that aims for speed and simplicity.
GNU FDL
Welcome to Bulletproof Blues: a "rules light" superhero roleplaying game set in the universe of Kalos Comics.
OGL
A multi-coloured font that can be displayed vertically.
OFL
'This PDF breaks down the CAPERS Core game system.'
A guide to using Creative Commons licensing in government.
A competitive card game where players use intelligence collection techniques to solve international crises. On each turn, one player will try to defuse a crisis while their opponents interfere with reality checks.
A rules-light fantasy adventure RPG with quick character generation and deadly combat.
A game to teach people about carbon pricing.
Card Armies: Battle For Wesnoth is a strategy game designed by David Bradshaw.
GPL
Cardenio has a problem. He seems to be slipping between realities.
Zombie survival rogue-like
35,000 scans of illuminated manuscripts.
An MMORPG where you can capture monsters.
GPL
'Cazadores is a cooperative miniatures game about tracking and hunting monsters, beasts, and other things that go bump in the night.'
Anti-IP libertarian blog from Stephen Kinsella.
A guide to choosing a license.
One of the first games to be open source.
GNU FDL
GPL
Art from a perverted circus. Some nudity and violence.
'This document contains the current systems reference document for the Cities Without Number cyberpunk RPG.'
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Mix and match your own Dungeon World classes.
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Learn to program.
Codename: Spandex is a retro-clone game that emulates the game mechanics of another out-of-print game (Golden Heroes) without using any of the copyrighted artistic presentation.
College Physics meets standard scope and sequence requirements for a two-semester introductory algebra-based physics course.
Gratis public domain comics.
An elegant take on Comic Sans.
OFL
Generates collections of stripes or dots or blank canvases.
GPL
An open education repository.
A deck-building card game.
The title is comprehensive.
open source DIY rapid hardware prototyping
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A project from the EFF about problems with copyright.
"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
An article on the circumstances under which copyright would apply to databases.
Facts about how Australian copyright law is out of touch.
A two-player ONLINE STRATEGY GAME played for REAL MONEY by JASON ROHRER
Information about space.
On a desolate island, suicidal sheep Franck meets his fate in a quirky salesman, who offers him the gift of a lifetime. Little does he know that he can only handle so much lifetime...
Crash / Lanterns of the Dead is two game in one: a game about a crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture.
Whether you’re a volunteer, professor, instructional designer, researcher, administrator or technologist—or simply looking for a great holiday gift—this book offers a background on copyright law, as well as a clear guide to open licensing and open advocacy. You can read this book on its own or while taking the CC Certificate course.
A step-by-step guide to the world of CC licenses.
A song by Nina Paley about attribution.
An INC Reader for Wikipedia.
A light and light-hearted RPG.
You are a little girl, and your ‘quest’ is to find some random letters.
GPL
This 392 page, Creative Commons licensed handbook is designed to help those with no prior experience to protect their basic human right to Privacy in networked, digital domains.
A tabletop RPG set in modern times.
Plans for a simple, cheap CNC mill.
Game icons designed by Daniel Solis.
Daring Adventures offers quick, no-prep superhero roleplaying, roughly in the style of golden age comics.
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A computer game about collecting people's information.
(A) free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
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Data from the Austrian government.
Self-explanatory.
Data from the Italian Parliament.
An experiential larp for 4-8 players
When Death takes a holiday, a hapless family of ghosts must shepherd the dearly departed.
A Parsley adventure.
A documentary about the debt crisis.
Deconstructing Masculinity is an animated short documentary about gender norms and especially focussed on masculinity, the problem with the idea of violent masculinity.
In Deep Freeze, economists Philipp Bagus and David Howden demonstrate that the real cause of the calamity was bad central bank policy.
Oracular spies fighting the future and Greek myths.
Design Livre is an attitude, a way of conceiving the design and seek a comprehensive and inclusive look, recognizing designs made by people. (translated from Portuguese)
A detailed book on using the LibreOffice suite to design.
Play Fate Accelerated Edition with dice inspired by Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
Was a Steam-like computer game platform.
GPL
A Spanish language periodical.
Dice icons.
Gratis public domain comics.
A recipe for open source beer.
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A fantasy dungeoncrawl game with significant player narrative control.
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A free culture advocate.
an introduction to Open Content projects with respect to how they work, how they are designed, and how they continue to exist alongside Market driven entities.
GNU FDL
A shady Chinese restaurant is the setting for a Fiasco playset.
The basic system of the Hillfolk RPG.
OGL
In this quick card game 2-4 players compete to earn the most reputation by developing new Drupal modules and building complex websites!
A new Roman script.
A game about relationships, ideals, and the choices we make to preserve or destroy them.
A fantasy RPG designed for quick play and no fuss.
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A new take on the 4C System
Defending your rights in the digital world
A short and surreal movie about an old man and his grandson.
The EoP card game helps clarify the details of threat modeling and examines possible threats to software and computer systems.
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A video-making competition.
A movie.
''The inhabitants of this future Web reside in a closed system, where all possible experiences will soon be exhausted. The Web is winding down, falling into stasis. Here, Flatline is a brief infusion of novelty, bringing chaos to the system.''
'397 carefully crafted premium pictograms'
'Envisioning Technology is an award-winning tech-trend forecasting studio with people in London, São Paulo and New York.'
"Esperando el Tsunami (Waiting for the Tsunami) is a quest for the sounds and people of present-day Colombia, in a continuous improvisation by the filmmaker and musicians as we composed and created on the road."
"Remixing the visual arts"
The gifts in the left column respect your freedom much more than those in the right column.
'Better food through information.'
GPL
''Evil Wizards in a Cave is a short adventure module compatible with both the Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord fantasy role-playing games.''
Inspired by 4th edition D&D.
'Extra Ordinary is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world.'
''This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes.''
The bare bones of FATE.
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The guide is designed to empower authors to exercise their right to use source materials to further their research and writing goals by helping them to make confident fair use decisions.
'You can change the way products are made, starting with a single Phone. Together, we’re opening up the Supply Chain, and redefining the Economy – one step at a time.'
Classes for Dungeon World.
'Fantasy Express is a new game, based on Against the Darkmaster and the Grievious Grimoire.'
A simple HTML5 game for the Liberated Pixel Cup.
GPL
A light and simple skill-based RPG.
An extended version of the fractal role-playing game Fate.
OGL
A toolkit for the Fate tabletop RPG.
OGL
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Final Bid is an auction-based tabletop roleplaying game for 3-6 players. Each 2-4 hour session is a standalone story, perfect for one shots. There are six different film settings for you to play in, each with 8 of their own unique Roles to play.
Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.
An evolution of RuneQuest.
FAL
An original game system and toolkit.
A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
Web comic/open world project
Aztec daisies, god-rabbits and divine parties meet in this Aztec soap opera.
GNU FDL
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Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.
OFL
MIT
A retroclone of 2E AD&D.
OGL
'For the Queen is a game about love, duty, and devotion.'
This text describes two formal languages which have been of special importance to philosophers: truth-functional sentential logic and quantified predicate logic. The book covers translation, formal semantics, and proof theory for both languages.
A game written in a paragraph.
The Fortune System Resource Document includes the basic rules of the Fortune System. It also includes advice from existing Fortune System designers.
Play a superhero in the Italian Renaissance.
OGL
A biography of free software guru Richard Stallman.
GNU FDL
This book is a collection of games that you can play with the piecepack.
An Arabic guide to free culture.
A blog of open source games.
Problems with using the NonCommercial Creative Commons license term.
''The guide gives you information, activities and ideas to confidently create a remix from material you know you have the rights to reuse.''
A 'technical support collective for freedom oriented intentional communities'
A repository of structured data.
Cookbook made in solidarity with Bassel, a prisoner of the Syrian regime.
Photos of Joi Ito and writings from others.
A computer game and its asset packs.
A half-finished RPG designed by committee.
GPL
'Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between [China, Russia and Mongolia] are enacted, produced, and crossed.'
A free, independent magazine for Ubuntu Linux.
"Full Command is a 7 page core ruleset for simulating battles all the way from a skirmish level with a handful of individual models through to full scale war with units totalling hundreds of miniatures."
Fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
Short fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
A program for image manipulation and creation.
GPL
'Hundreds of free icons to customize and include in your games'
Cards for the game Ganakagok.
A story telling game about fickle fairies.
A generic rules-light RPG.
Geological hazard information for New Zealand.
Your fantasy city is under siege. Play both the living and the dead.
The goal of this publication is to promote GIMP and related open source software.
Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...
'GLIDE is a solo (and cooperative) sci-fi tabletop RPG adventure game inspired by the world of Frank Herbert's Dune.'
Glider Ink is a project aiming to create the first graphic novel about hackerspaces, introducing communities and their values to the wider audience.
2D MMORPG art assets now public domain.
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You play an alien who gets his or her kicks from speeding.
An old-school style fantasy RPG.
GNU FDL
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A sci-fi novel.
A Dungeon World/Powered by the Apocalypse fan e-zine.
'Grimwild is a streamlined, character-driven, cinematic fantasy RPG.'
A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings
Growstuff is a community of food gardeners. We're building an open source platform to help you learn about growing food, track what you plant and harvest, and swap seeds and produce with other gardeners near you.
The document is a reference for game designers, and is not tuned to teach the game, or provide a playable game experience.
OGL
A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
Habitica is an open source habit building program which treats your life like a Role Playing Game. Level up as you succeed, lose HP as you fail, earn money to buy weapons and armor.
GPL
A guide on holding your own hackathon.
Hacker Public Radio (HPR) is an Internet Radio show (podcast) that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday.
Metadata from the Harvard Library.
Disturbed teen meets impassible therapist meets faceless killer meets white trash drama. A compact, rapid-fire psychological thriller.
A Worms-like computer game.
GPL
A blog for three documentaries about open programming languages.
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Hexoshi is a libre game generally inspired by the Metroid series. It is a work in progress, but once completed, it will be my biggest game yet, with a maze-like world spanning hundreds of individual rooms. I intend to make this one of the greatest libre free-roaming games to date.
An expansion to the Piecepack.
How people interact with tabletop games.
Play a growing dragon.
A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized America at the beginning of the XX century. - that anyone can edit, fork and contribute to.
This constitution compiles the rules of Holacracy. However it is not meant as learning material — you don’t learn a new game by reading the rules.
Homotopy type theory is a new branch of mathematics that combines aspects of several different fields in a surprising way.
This is a project to typeset public domain solos for the horn using lilypond. A kickstarter helped fund an initial printing.
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Defining open access.
A modular gaming system.
GPL
This book aims to put in common the strategies, methodologies, motivations, and experiences of a wide range of young creators, organizers, and business owners in art, design, technology, academia, and Internet culture in order to document the spirit of DIY in the digital age.
A role-playing game.
On a planet that is increasingly technologically linked and globally mediated, how might noises break and re-connect in distinctive and productive ways within practices located in the world of art and thought?
About bridging the gaps between information societies.
Developing a business model for an open access journal.
CC BY-NC-ND
A vector graphics editor.
GPL
A recursive, infinite tactical shooter.
GPL
A book proposing the Redesign Revolution.
A journal that discusses resources that can be shared and used collectively.
Over 2 million images from books digitised on the Internet Archive.
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US legal citation.
This book presents standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that, in the authors view, ought to be standard but is not.
'The Invulnerable RPG Year One Edition allows you to create your own hero, and experience worlds of adventure!'
Fate-based roleplaying in a world of mecha and Norse legend.
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The book features chapters by open data experts in a range of academic disciplines, covering practical information on licensing, ethics, and advice for data curators, alongside more theoretical issues surrounding the adoption of open data.
Cthulhu medieval supers.
A book which contrasts extraordinary private innovation with government recalcitrance.
Has an experimental open data section.
A universal generic games system.
GNU FDL
An Odia author and academic.
GNU FDL
Encoding the Odia script in Unicode.
OFL
A flexible and easy-to-use game system drawn from many sources.
An artist.
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access publication for original articles, reviews and case studies that analyze or describe the strategies, partnerships and impact of library-led digital projects, online publishing and scholarly communication initiatives.
A transdisciplinary international journal published monthly.
An unofficial computer game based on an episode of the hit show Community.
MIT
In this resource-driven card game for 1-4 players, you're an optimistic, scrappy adventurer set in a paradoxically lush wasteland of junk. You need to be the first to build one of the many super cool things you can make with the scrap you collect.
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Public domain images scanned from books.
A band.
A Fiasco playset parodying Dungeons & Dragons.
An evil witch has taken over a small town.
KNAVE is a rules toolkit by the creator of Maze Rats and The Alchemist's Repose for running old school fantasy RPGs without classes.
Konkani Vishwakosh is a four-volume hard copy encyclopedia (3632 pages) published by Goa University; a work that took over 14 years to develop.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
''LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.''
A brain cancer. Some very personal Open Data. An opportunity.
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Data about Italian education.
A feature length documentary about street art in Barcelona
You are the crew of the interstellar scout ship Raptor.
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A South Korean search engine for Creative Commons materials.
GPL
'Level Up is a standalone 5E fantasy tabletop RPG. Developed from the start to be compatible with original 5E (O5E), it is a fully-featured ‘advanced’ 5E ruleset which has been written from the ground up.'
OGL
ORC
The games and art produced by the Liberated Pixel Cup.
GPL
A journal of libertarian scholarship.
In a time where time wasnt, Seven Factions struggle for Liberation of the others so that they may live free and without struggle. This is the world of Libre. Old site: https://web.archive.org/web/20100703235005/http://librecardgame.sourceforge.net/dokuwiki/
An anthology arguing for freeing up works from copyright.
A list of libre things that one might enjoy receiving from one's acquaintances at upcoming gift-giving occasions.
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A project to raise awareness of libre.
A wiki of libre electronic games.
GNU FDL
This is an introductory text intended for a one-year introductory course of the type typically taken by biology majors, or for AP Physics B.
'a solid re-implementation of the classic B/X rules, but reinterpreted with an eye to the needs of the modern gamer'
ORC
'a rules-lite, adaptable Survival-Horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night.'
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A Spanish language Linux magazine.
A short satirical game about extracting resources from whole planets.
MIT
A storytelling game HG Wells played with his children.
"Living room is a musical stop-motion short film about the secret musical life of a group of chewing gums."
An extensive font designed to flow seamlessly.
OFL
'Locus is a bespoke, mystery/horror roleplay game with unique mechanics crafted entirely around horror.'
A science fiction Western.
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"Character-driven science-fiction series about the first settlers on the Moon"
An RPG that has undergone considerable changes in recent versions.
OGL
A guide to sharing your knowledge and creativity with the world, and sustaining your operation while you do.
A German fantasy game based on FATE.
OGL
A fascist super replaces the US president during WWII.
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'This site provides over 2,600 free mini-lessons and example videos with no ads. The videos are organized by course and topic.'
Creative Commons crowdsourced textbook.
'MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.'
AGPL
A game from Amagi Games.
Play a viking hero on epic adventures.
CC BY-SA
An intricate and lengthy RPG of dark fantasy.Own license
A webcomic which often covers copyright-related issues.
A short and sweet take on the d6 System.
OGL
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A roleplaying game of emotionally tempestuous arthaus wuxia.
A simple HTML5 game made for the Liberated Pixel Cup.
GPL
'Monkaa is a blue furred, pink faced monkey who consumes a crystallized meteorite, making Monkaa invincibly strong and too hot to handle. Exploring his superpower Monkaa zooms into an unexplored universe.'
Browser-based single-player fantasy electronic game.
''Move Commons is a simple tool for connecting potential volunteers and contributors to initiatives, collectives and NGOs. ''
'Moxie is a tabletop RPG designed for players who crave storytelling packed with drama, suspense, and breathtaking action.'
A Linux magazine.
A picturebook about a bear.
MurderHobos gets to the meat of dungeon crawling: killing things and taking their stuff.
A simple graphics program.
GPL
Queensland police force sharing its crimes data.
A rules-light modular generic RPG.
"In Mythic Mortals you play as yourself, suddenly granted the unstable powers of Ancient Heroes!"
A horror RPG.
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National Repository of Open Educational Resources offers resources for all school subjects and grades in multiple languages. The resources are available in the form of concept maps, videos, audio clips, talking books, multimedia, learning objects, photographs, diagrams, charts, articles, wikipages and textbooks.
A game where you wander around exploring an island.
GPL
"New Me! is 10 original pieces for solo piano"
New Midnight Cassette System is 55 hours of public domain music you can use any way you want, with no strings attached.
A collection of 100 pixelated images for you to download and use for whatever you want.
An archetypal zombie film, inadvertently placed into the public domain.
A roleplaying game based on Dungeon World.
A Portuguese-language novella about a private detective searching for his missing uncle.
A rules-light, GMless game designed for children.
An "anti-stealth" computer game - you have to be complicit in your own surveillance! Wound up, although an hour-long demo is still available.
'Taking Novus to the next level, Novus 2e is a skill based system with no levels or classes.'
A Dungeon World supplement.
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Academic material from African universities.
''OERu gives you the chance to study independently, from home, with access to world-class courses from recognised institutions.''
The software that NASA used to land Curiosity.
Apache
A role-playing game that promises to model physics and biology.
A public doman, communist-era superhero.
Understanding how oil contracts work - over 200 pages.
Scanned public domain illustrations.
Billy the Kid is on a train to Old Messila, doomed to hanging in this Hackbird.
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One-page dungeons, part of an annual contest.
''A Roleplaying Game of Sacrifice and Vengeance''
Over a hundred one-page dungeons.
Ookaboo has collected nearly a million images of precisely defined topics such as places, people, species and products.
''This chapter discusses what Open Access means in the context of e-books, how Open Access e-books can be supported, and the roles that Open Access e-books will play in libraries and in our society.''
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''Open Adventure is a full-featured tabletop adventure game that offers out-of-box support for medieval fantasy and science-fiction expeditions.''
'Open Adventure: Fantasy is a fast-paced, cinematic roleplaying system you can download for free today!'
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A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
A font that is easier for dyslexic people to read.
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A project to create a modern public domain translation of the Bible.
A repository of libre fonts.
OFL
A journal about open hardware.
A project to create one page for every book ever published.
''Welcome to the initial ideas hub for the Open LIbrary of Humanities (OLH): a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences.''
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A book.
"This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom."
"We’ve created a set of pixel art game graphics that are completely free to use for any project"
''The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.''
Sensor enhanced hive designs for bees
Recipes for food and cocktails.
GNU FDL
A recipe website.
'' Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law''
AFL
View US legislation.
A futurism blog.
Free to use, user-contributed trivia question database.
"OpenRelativity is an open-source toolkit to simulate effects of special relativity by varying the speed of light."
MIT
A clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
GPL
"The free and open global address collection"
An entire chemistry curriculum.
A libre recipe for cola so you can make your own.
GPL
A database on corporations.
ODbL
Cloud-based storage for your photos on other sites.
Apache
''Oppia is a tool for creating interactive online activities that enable students to learn by doing.''
A feature film
A clone of D&D 4E.
OGL
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A generic role-playing engine.
GPL
A surreal game of the law set in the Old World.
A character generator for the d20 System.
LGPL
Undergraduate photography class.
A pictoral communication language.
"To provide tutorials, workflows and a showcase for high-quality photography using Free/Open Source Software."
'Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program. Stop the American government from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services.'
GPL
Data and photos of extinct animals and plants.
"Panic at the Dojo is a tabletop game for 3-5 players set in a modern world where martial arts reigns supreme, and magic exists a little bit."
'Pantheon is a storytelling game about a hero’s journey and the trials devised by the gods.'
The rules from the AGON roleplaying game.
A sidescroller about a man and his wife.
A motion comic of episode 6 of Pepper & Carrot.
A whimsical webcomic about a witch and her cat.
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''A supernatural storytelling RPG''
"Created in 1993 this texture library includes 128 repeating textures, now available for free."
A simple HTML5 game where you wander around avoiding enemies.
GPL
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"From Creative Commons, Plays Well with Others is a podcast about the art and science of collaboration."
A book.
A generic dice-based RPG.
Anthology of science fiction short stories.
''Powers For Good is a fast-moving roleplaying game of team superheroics in the style of comic books such as Legion of Superheroes and New X-men, or TV shows like Justice League. Together with your friends you can create an entire team of superheroes in just a few minutes and leap into whatever the GM has stewing.''
The website of the President of the Russian Federation.
How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
'Project: Ballad is a story of creators, creations, and audiences; of reality and fantasy, of comics and games, of who we are, and of what we really want.'
'A strategy card game set in the fictional world of Project Utopia.'
A Western LARP of small town secrets.
Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
Jenny Everywhere
What it says.
Torrents for public domain movies.
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A board game played on a chess or chequers board.
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A directory of shareable works.
A database of common building products and their risks.
'The Queensland Government will release as much public data as possible, free to anyone who wishes to use it. This data has been gathered using public money and is the property of the people of Queensland and so, where suitable, we will release it.'
Quest-ions is a fantasy roleplaying game with a novel mechanic using tokens.
An advocacy group for copyright reform.
A diceless RPG for quick startup and rapid play.
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Rafu, or Raffaele Manzo, is a game designer.
Awkward is a family-comedy role-playing game for 5 players which purports to be the "New Wave of Italian Freeform". Whatever that means.
Rathole Radio is a fortnightly Internet radio show featuring the best in new music from around the web, with occasional interviews and exclusive live performances to boot.
Rules-lite, classless, nostalgic RPG.
Photographs and transcriptions of tombstones.
A clever reinterpretation of fantasy gaming.
The rules from the RPGs 'Spire' and 'Heart'.
A game for Jonathan Walton's Stage One.
Chart the course of any revolution, real or imagined, in any time or place.
A free, fair, independent music advocacy group.
Advocating for legal remixing.
An abstract strategy game
A short story by Leonard Kirke.
''Rookvale is a [tabletop] game of cinematic tactical combat [with demons]''
A fantasy game which draws on several different RPG systems.
The code used by the Ryzom MMORPG.
AGPL
Wiki describing X-Files-like phenomena.
An organisation which supports language communities
OFL
An RPG once lost, but capable of preservation thanks to its open license.
GNU FDL
A project to empower people with data by distributing the load of data collection.
'Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL.'
GPL
Game material for Dungeon World.
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An RPG about high school.
'Learn open practices at School of Open.'
A comedic superheroes playset for Fiasco.
An 11-player science fiction LARP.
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A game where spelling words with Scrabble tiles affects what happens in the story.
A 12-player LARP about incompetent superheroes.
"A new animated feature from the creator of Sita Sings the Blues"
A modern take on the Scarlet Pimpernel with a mild superhero flair.
A band.
A game of princes who pursue asceticism to save the world.
A "science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners."
A blog about copyright reform.
'ShoeTool is an animated fairy tale about an elf shoemaker who thinks he buys a machine to help him make shoes... only to find out that there are there are strings attached to his "purchase."'
A community-made hexcrawl setting for D&D.
A brief fantasy film about a girl's love for her dragon.
A game inspired by the Blender Foundation's movie Sintel.
GPL
A mesmerising and haunting film which combines jazz and Hindu legend
Skeksis from the Dark Crystal on cards.
High resolution public domain photos.
How to put together a slacker's sandbox.
A blog about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism.
A game for two people who design content for one another.
GPL
A game designed for the Liberated Pixel Cup.
GPL
*The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE*
A *simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum.*
*Provides information about librarianship as a career, including types of libraries, types of jobs within libraries, professional issues, and educational requirements.*
*Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.*
An anime short made with HDR in mind.
'This tactical tabletop wargame lets you command elite squads in gritty skirmishes, combining strategy, story, and supernatural power. '
'Songs and Sagas is a condensed OSR inspired tabletop role-playing game of axes, runes, spirits and legends'
ORC
A simple HTML5 game made for the Liberated Pixel Cup.
GPL
A monospaced typeface from Adobe.
OFL
A Risk-like boardgame.
A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licenses work
Spring is the latest short film produced by Blender Animation Studio.
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First Official EP from Jemex
This work is a very simple method for the task resolution during RPG sessions.
A science-fiction audiobook series
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A guide to programming with Python.
A multiplayer turn-based strategy game. The download includes the server, web server and Android client.
MIT
New Brothers Whim picturebook.
A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
A tabletop RPG.
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Software to make games.
ISC
A jump-and-run 2D sidescroller.
GPL
Scanned public domain illustrations.
An open-source, rules-light, role playing game that does not rely on a “game master” or similar role to manage the game.
News on the conflict in Syria.
A simple font designed in two days.
OFL
'[A] collection of physical establishments and locations, brief descriptions (sights, sounds, smells), an NPC, and corresponding moves for Dungeon World.'
'"Take On Magic Items" is a collection of magic items for Dungeon World, though a clever game master could easily translate these items into the fantasy system of choice, especially systems that encourage rulings not rules.'
'Tannenberg 4 is a wargame about the Russian offensive into East Prussia 1914, later known as The Battle of Tannenberg.'
"EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way."
The results of the Blender Foundation's Mango Project: a sci-fi romance.
'(A) fun and active documentary film exploring the relationship and shared story of Workers and Students in the anti-sweatshop movement.'
Royalty free music in a variety of genres.
A blog of stories, games and public domain art.
'We are a user rights initiative to rate and label website terms & privacy policies, from very good to very bad.'
AGPL
Dan Dynamo - renowned pulp hero - is playing host to the gorgeous Princess Aphasia of the Venusians.
'TeX for the Impatient is a ~350 page book on TeX, plain TeX, and Eplain, written by Paul Abrahams, Kathryn Hargreaves, and Karl Berry.'
GNU FDL
A movie animated by 12-15 year olds.
An 18th Century ballad opera.
A collection of US Government photo libraries.
A collection of 100 pixelated camera illustrations for anybody to download and use in whatever way they see fit.
A Swords Without Master adventure.
"The book is a compilation of the strongest articles on reform of the copyright monopoly from Christian Engström (MEP) and (Rick Falkvinge)"
'a massively-multiplayer game of burglary and home defense'
Why open source works.
OPL
''In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals.''
'"The Jeremy Kellerman Blog!" was created in February of 2011 as an outlet for the writings of Michigan-based creative genius and self-help guru Jeremy Kellerman and his associates.'
The Comic Strip Library is a digital library containing a collection of public domain comic strips.
Reflections on preparing a crowdsourced FLO textbook.
''Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy.''
''The Devil, John Moulton is a game about demon summoning outlaws in the American old west.''
"(T)he authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information — is fundamental to a healthy society."
The second in a trilogy of fantasy novels.
A story about troubled adolescents travelling to Faerie.
Blog and podcast.
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A document promoting a social commons.
Play travelling enforcers and heroes putting wrongs to right.
"The Fate Codex is a mostly-monthly e-zine featuring Quick Start Adventures and more for the Fate roleplaying system."
Humans after civilisation - a tabletop roleplaying game that has been extensively revised.
The Abbott Coalition Government's assessment of what it has achieved in its first 100 days.
A book about how Raleigh, North Carolina became an ''open source city''.
The Generic Action Mediation System is designed to give players flexibility in the powers they design.
This book is a tutorial for the computer programming language C.
GNU FDL
Public domain images.
A Donjon supplement by Valent Games.
GNU FDL
A 'class-and-level-based roguelike dungeon crawler game, reasonably compatible with other leading brands'
"The Voyager 1 is the first humanmade spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
Flying with it is the Golden Record, a documentation of the sounds of Earth. Listen."
''This [Dungeon World] supplement is a resource to help you and your players create interesting, exciting, mysterious and dangerous lives after death.''
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A los-res horror computer game.
A Sorcerer supplement.
A game where you fight monsters.
GPL
A libertarian blog.
Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses
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RPG supplement for DSD6.
"[A] new FREE guide designed to help environmental and social change activists kick butt and break through on social media."
'WFMU and the Free Music Archive challenged songwriters everywhere to unseat “Happy Birthday to You” from it’s cultural throne by composing possible replacements. Here are the winners.'
'The Open Book is a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global movement for open knowledge in the words of those who are helping to build it today.'
''We're the people behind some of the most popular web games. The web is meant to be an open landscape; being in this bundle is how we choose to honor this.''
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A book about open source projects.
An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
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Books about roleplaying, ranging from general advice to specific settings.
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A Fiasco playset.
A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.
A book from Creative Commons about how those licenses have been used in various projects.
This book makes the statement that thought, action and feeling can occur in any order, it also puts forth the idea that life is divided into three groups, emotion, thinking, and feeling.
A competition to create a game inspired by the public domain.
What it says in the title.
Make your own games of desperate struggle using the Resistance System, the core rules that power the Spire RPG.
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A fantasy setting.
A simple and generic rules-system based on d6s.
'Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few.'
Musical/spoken word album by Kouns & Weaver.
A movie, still in production.
GPL
'A new collection of 73 essays that describe the enormous potential of the commons in conceptualizing and building a better future'
"The Whispering Road is a storytelling game of cooperation and exploration, inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli."
WikiPremed's mission is to lower economic barriers to becoming a doctor and to improve the quality of MCAT review for everyone.
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Free software to create tiled maps for electronic games.
BSD
Apache
GPL
A NaNoWriMo novel.
This is Not This is Not a Podcast - a sports podcast.
An open source tile laying game.
GPL
'the complete Tiny d10 tabletop role-playing game system, styled in the fantasy tradition'
A boardgame about a faceoff between radicals and the police.
A rules-light universal RPG.
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Browse the Internet anonymously.
BSD
A Spanish book publisher.
A website cooperation between state and federal governments.
''Trolling Effects is a resource for those who have been targeted by patent trolls.''
Trophy is a collaborative storytelling game about a group of treasure-hunters on a doomed expedition into a forest that doesn’t want them there.
Project to create a Pokemon-inspired video game.
GPL
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A curious one-page RPG where you face off against dragons and sorcerers.
Online choose your own adventure games.
An encounter for the RPG Dungeons & Dragons 4E.
List of Open Source Programs for Windows
A great modern novel.
Interviews
Uncharted Worlds is a Space Opera roleplaying game built upon the Apocalypse World rules. It’s inspired by the big, bold, larger-than-life space-faring epics like Mass Effect, Firefly, Star Trek, and by games like Traveller, Masters of Orion, Starcraft (and a bit of Galaxy Trucker).
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction.
the most up-to-date information about when, why, and how to make your work openly accessible. Our goal is to encourage our members to consider open access publishing by addressing common questions and concerns and by providing real-life strategies and tools that authors can use to work with publishers, institutions, and funders to make their works more widely accessible to all.
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Authors are sometimes so grateful to receive a publication offer that they may be tempted to sign the first version of a publication contract that they receive, especially if negotiating seems complicated, intimidating, or risky. But there is a lot at stake for authors in a book deal, and it is well worth the effort to read the contract, understand its contents, and negotiate for favorable terms.
'Unsung Tales is a card-based roleplaying game, in which you and your friends will work together to tell stories of mystery and adventure in a Sword and Sorcery world.'
An art installation.
There is a whole lot happening in Verdigris Valley, the borderlands between the Kingdom of Kotalia and the high steppes of the Pashuan tribes.
The Vicious Crucible of Villa Argentate is game for up to six players and a GM. It plays in three to five sessions, or a pulse-pouding single session of jump cuts and action sequences. Best of all, it's free.
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A simple HTML5 game for the Liberated Pixel Cup.
GPL
A collection of public domain clipart.
'We're a community of free culture-loving individuals, creating a free card game.'
GPL
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Waiting... is a prose book by Noura Ghazi Safadi, a Syrian human rights lawyer, born in Damascus in 1981, written to her husband Bassel Khartabil Safadi from 2012-2015, while he was imprisoned by the Syrian government in Damascus.
A retroclone of The Fantasy Trip.
OGL
A rules lite dungeoncrawl.
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A magazine about collective action.
An informative YouTube video.
A Ronin Arts gear book for 4C System.
A simple system of intelligent weasels living in The Forest that must deal with a threat. Easy for kids.
'Weird World is a game about playing characters with unnatural powers in a dangerous, exciting world.'
Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images
'What's OLD is NEW uses a flexible d6 dice pool system and lifepath character creation rules.'
OGL
ORC
What it says.
A British comedy about a woman seeking her long-lost siblings.
Beer brewed on the White House grounds.
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''Hares are popular creatures in African folktales. They are famous for behaving badly and always getting away with it. In this Nyungwe folktale, we see what happens when Hare refuses to forgive Hippo for stepping on his foot. ''
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What it says.
A game about repressed homosexuality, written in five minutes.
JoCo''s only free/libre/open song.
This is an incomplete list of full length free content musical works available on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, with special emphasis on works that are (or should be) linked in Wikipedia articles. (Mainly classical music)
Designs for a seat.
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The role-playing game of mooks, minions, and dupes.
The Monthly Monsters project is back with another monster manual for Dungeon World!
A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
'the mechanics of the game and trivially-derived content such as weapon damage dice, spell and ability names, and other necessary material for reproduction and use.'
Superhero roleplaying Powered by the Apocalypse.
Wretched & Alone games are solo journaling games about struggling in the face of insurmountable odds to survive, or to achieve something important.
A guide for using writer's dice.
Adventures of a kind-hearted wolf.
A supers RPG.
A moderately crunchy cinematic rules system.
GPL
The first font completed by Yanone.
OFL
A proof of concept for an HTML5 game for the Liberated Pixel Cup.
GPL
A computer game where you control a rodent.
GPL
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A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.
copyleft.org is a collaborative project to create and disseminate useful information, tutorial material, and new policy ideas regarding all forms of copyleft licensing.
eLife is a unique collaboration between funders and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way.
"A nerdy, tactical fast paced hero combat game in a fantasy setting: Items, builds, abilities, fast to play, 1vs1, action points, scales for more players, with an ever evolving hero pool."
GPL
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
a simple character creation and brief game play paradigm for Grey Ghost Press's Fudge RPG
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Contemporary, surreal horror where the highest goal is surviving more or less intact.
A superhero RPG.
A project to closely clone D&D 4E.
OGL
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An independent drama-thriller film.
A graphic design primer.
The first CC licensed Academy Award winning film.
A game of earth, air, fire, water and balance.
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A fantasy RPG.
A webcomic.
The Action! System Core Rules provide all of the basic rules necessary to create and play a role-playing game. Create adventures and characters based on your favorite movies, TV shows or novels.
OGL
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A science fiction campaign setting.
A repository of Australian OER for Adaptation Studies.
Liam Brennan takes a shot at improving Dungeon Squad.
A supplement for Dungeon Squad from Domino Writing.
A Dungeon Squad hack for adventure games of any time period.
An old school style roleplaying game with a focus on kingdom-building.
OGL
A modification of Dungeon Squad for the Warhammer 40K universe.
Retro-Cute Sci-Fi Role-Playing
OGL
Aetherverse is a tabletop sci-fi wargame that I first published in 2004. The concept of the game was to create a sort of “universal” rules system that players could use to create and play with armies sourced from any of the many miniatures manufacturers on the market. While this had been done before in a generic sense, I designed the system to build armies that had real character rather than just being a collection of numbers.
An online choose-your-own-adventure story.
Fight off the alien menace in this Lady Blackbird hack.
A mashup album.
Back from the Crusades, you must kill the bandit lord Robin Hood.
A dungeoncrawling fantasy role-playing game.
A different take on Dungeon Squad by Liam Brennan.
A Lady Blackbird-esque RPG.
A 'best of' for Learning Music Monthly.
A complete RPG setting.
A simplified d20 System for gladiatorial combat.
OGL
A website that hosted tabletop games.
OGL
An all-rights-reserved tabletop roleplaying game that has inspired many other games.
A REIGN setting that explores race, genetics and cultural identity. (REIGN Supplement #14)
modern-day supernatural thriller RPG
A space opera miniatures wargame.
OGL
A collaborative, online project about dress in New South Wales pre 1945.
You can freely borrow from the Autodesk Help, Support and Video libraries to build a new learning experience for anyone with a particular need or interest.
Fantasy dungeoncrawling in Elizabethan England.
OGL
An action movie RPG.
Bad Habit is a cooperative game for 2-5 players where you must work together to learn the patience and empathy necessary to help those who suffer from Non-Suicidal Self Injury.
An RPG of high octane action.
Information about a fantasy world, in the form of a newspaper.
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Music for the computer game Balloon Diaspora.
'a system of core rules for tabletop roleplaying'
ORC
A modern translation.
Tell Stories & Play Games with your Tribe
Symbols from the album art of David Bowie's Blackstar.
The first planar document.
A fun and educational tabletop game inspired by contemporary urban insurrection.
A short, GMless tabletop game.
A Lady Blackbird hack where George Washington faces off against the French.
Non-fiction
Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Wizards at a wizarding school, trying to pass their classes while fighting evil.
A comic book about intellectual property law.
An artist.
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A Britain-themed miniatures game.
Earth has been under siege for 200 years.
Bulbapedia is a MediaWiki installation run by Bulbagarden for the purpose of creating a Pokémon-focused encyclopedia.
A novel about an Al-Qaida agent under interrogation.
A free do-it-yourself party game where you match cards in humorous ways
Life in a post-apocalyptic future.
OGL
A Gothic horror role-playing game.
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Reviews of gratis and CC-licensed music.
A fantasy game.
Cities of You is a project that envisions people as imaginary places.
A setting without a game.
A guide for teachers running the closed game Happy Birthday, Robot!
An analysis of the economics behind free, libre and open source software.
Try not to go murderously insane!
Turn Chess into a tactical miniatures game.
An RPG for emulating console video games.
A report from the London School of Economics and Political Science, finding that online sharing does not reduce creator profits.
Six of Cory Doctorow's short stories in comic book form.
Bleak, nihilistic dungeon-crawling.
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The journal of gamer culture.
'CthulhuTech is science fantasy role playing game, set in a high-tech near-future Earth, with magic and monsters blended in.'
ORC
This game is about your crazy friends and family.
OGL
This allows you to play the old d100 games.
OGL
Play magical girls, sorcerers and mecha pilots using everyone's favourite system.
OGL
Quick and easy d20 role-playing.
OGL
Play in a 1970s environmental movie.
A role-playing game set in the sci-fi imaginings of the 1950s.
A merger of Swords & Wizardry and Basic Fantasy.
OGL
A tabletop RPG based on the Rules Cyclopedia.
OGL
ORC
A modern fusion and re-organisation of 0E and 1E rules.
OGL
An unofficial sequel to Lady Blackbird.
A tabletop RPG based on a streamlined version of the Rules Cyclopedia.
OGL
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America's enemies attack a school for elite agents.
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A blog about the lives of buildings and lives in buildings.
Pseudo-viking medieval Ragnarok mecha.
What it says in the title.
A massive art website, with some CC licensed works.
Singularity FATE-based role-playing.
OGL
'Diesel Sweeties is a pixelated webcomic by Richard Stevens 3 that has been continuously updated since April 2000. Sometimes the people kiss the robots. Be warned.'
A collection of works under various licenses.
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Hunt ghosts in a land of sultans and deserts.
I have been a tabletop gamer for about 25 years, mostly with pen-and-paper role playing games.
A generic RPG with rules for magic and hit locations.
OCL
A diceless horror game that uses a Jenga tower.
Spend the night in a haunted house.
A FATE RPG about modern magic.
OGL
The Fantasy Role-Playing Game of Adventure and Death from Drowning and Falling
An hour of music created for CC's 10th birthday.
Dungeoncrawling in Risus.
A simple dungeon-crawl game.
A hack of Dungeon Squad by Jim Adams.
The third edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game.
OGL
A fantasy RPG designed by a committee.
OGL
A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (editions 3 and 3.5).
A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (4th edition).
The game inside Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
A book of the near future.
Humanity stands on the cusp of a new age, with accelerated technological growth converging toward a singularity point, promising an undreamt-of future.
A Spanish RPG.
An Australian disaster awareness site.
'My attempt at grappling with issues of feminist dialectic in a short, entertaining fashion. Or, if you prefer, a story about a piece of software that turns loneliness into cash.'
An RPG in a post-human world.
A short and simple swords & sorcery RPG.
CC BY-SA
A game inspired by Original Dungeons & Dragons with some modern changes.
OGL
A free, universal RPG.
OCL
A fantasy role-playing game.
OGL
The server-side source code for the Estonian electronic voting system.
Compete for the trust of the President of the United States.
A simple, clean RPG for emulating action movies.
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"FASERIP is a pen-and-paper role-playing game of super powered heroes, with addictive character generation and comic-book combat pacing."
OGL
An extensive tabletop RPG.
OGL
'Fantastic Stories is a fun-filled accessible micro tabletop role-playing game about brave heroes embarking on grand quests, all conveniently designed to fit on a drink coaster!'
ORC
A universal game based on the FATE engine.
OGL
'The game is set in a floating island and there the inhabitants have their own struggles with life. '
An infographic by Daniel Solis.
CC BY
Sara Roncaglia’s study of the fascinating inner workings of the dabbawalas.
A fast-paced 2 player card game of risk and luck. Punch, kick, parry and dodge your way to victory!
Supplements 1 to 6 for REIGN.
'For Truth's Sake is a solo-journaling rpg about studying culture's other than your own.'
ORC
A minimalist beer-and-pretzels game about life as an Arabian thief.
Short videos about how law constraints culture.
A book about free software and free culture from the speakers at FSCONS 2008.
CC BY-SA
36 songs under Creative Commons licenses.
Selected essays of Richard Stallman.
“Free Wars” is an open table top wargame system designed to be used with whatever you have at hand.
OGL
An Alaskan take on Dust Devils.
An early generic RPG.
OGL
A generic fantasy RPG with familiar races and classes.
An RPG publisher.
'[A] 3-page micro-hack based on Apocalypse World, Dishonored, and Ghostbusters.'
As a Ghost Runner, you the players must track down rogue Ghosts, pulled from the afterlife and embedded into cybernetic SHELS which are used to hold these spirits to the world.
OGL
Play a ghost who interacts with the world through emotion.
Nine Inch Nails' album of 36 songs.
A setting for use with any D&D style game.
OCL
An online show about competitive role-playing.
CC BY-NC-ND
An introduction to Google's open source browser project.
A d%-based horror RPG.
OGL
A fantasy RPG with a freeform magic system.
OCL
A Hackbird inspired by Gundam.
How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
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A game of strategy and guess work played only with hands.
Hearts Blazing is a casual storygame for 3 to 5 players who have a love of episodic fiction and about 1 to 2 hours. After generating a fiction setting together, players take on the roles of dynamic but recognizable spec-fic archetypes.
A blog of roleplaying content.
(A) modern d20 RPG system that combines speed and simplicity with balance and depth.
A superhero RPG.
Ordinary people find some of their memories have been taken in exchange for deadly magical powers.
Songs by Curt Smith of Tears for Fears.
External designs of Honda's cars.
'a Modern Zombie Apocalypse Survival Hack of Pathfinder Second Edition'
ORC
OGL
Two detectives interrogate two suspects.
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A board game played on two different boards.
A comic.
A detailed sci-fi RPG and setting, beautifully decorated with 3D images.
A sad story about a miserable kid and the perils of fish telepathy. Despite this flippant description, I consider this one of my more successful horror stories.
Vacationing software engineers search for the Iliamna Monster.
Part of the deal with the Ardwin ransom was that I agreed to write a story for ten of the $50+ donors. Each one got to dictate one element for inclusion.
This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.
The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues.
Adventures in the odd world.
A system for shared, improvised storytelling.
Libre software that relates to culture and content.
A simple and realistic system combining skills and classes.
OGL
A song from REM.
Jenny Everywhere, aka the Shifter, is the world's first open source superhero.
Jenny Everywhere
'Survival roleplaying in the infinite multiverse'
superhero table-top game
Lessons and tests so you can teach yourself.
A three-way game of shifting alliances.
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An independent documentary about alternative education.
A retroclone of Basic/Expert D&D.
OGL
A game, a setting and a starting adventure all in one; a collage of recent innovations in gaming.
A setting and rules companion to Lady Blackbird.
A game about sharing a house with galactic dictators.
Weird fantasy role-playing.
OGL
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Delivering a trusted land, geospatial and property system that drives innovation, stability and growth for New Zealand.
A now-finished project to create an album each month for three years.
A nostalgic fantasy role-playing game.
Leviathans is a steampunk game that simulates combat between warships that have taken to the air in an alternate history 1910.
A very attractive site that presents key libre projects.
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Mascots of free and open source movements as cartoon characters.
CC BY-SA
Linux is an operating system. Sometimes called GNU/Linux
A hacker, wrongly imprisoned, tries to take down the police state.
'Locus is a set of roleplaying game rules for people who enjoy roleplaying but don't enjoy tedious combat, hard-to-remember rules, large tables, or restricted setting-bound play.'
A sequel to the Lady Blackbird indie darling.
The Lightweight Universal Roleplaying System.
Play a lost soul returned from beyond the grave.
A Paul Simon song released as common content.
Funny tales of the law.
An elaborate fantasy setting and accompanying rules engine.
OCL
A project to create a drink, the proceeds funding the Pirate Party.
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A game of creative assassination.
A project to clone and improve upon D&D 4E.
OGL
A story game and sequel to indie darling Lady Blackbird.
A light and generic fantasy RPG.
OGL
A baseball role-playing game remix
An open discussion on how to improve management for the 21st century.
The story of the beginning of the Machine Age.
A visual demonstration of the samples used by Girl Talk.
''Masks is a pen-and-paper role-playing game of super powered heroes, with addictive character generation and comic-book combat pacing.''
OGL
Enrol at a private school for tomorrow's amoral killing machines.
''Mazes & Perils is a game of imagination and role playing in a fantasy world, suitable for ages 10 and up.''
OGL
A fun and engaging game of gladiatorial battles in the far future, where the dice you gather determines your actions for that round.
"This is a game of drama, of desires, motivations, and downfalls. You play characters caught up in a devastating circle of events that can lead only to a tragic fall."
OGL
A supplement for Rivers and Lakes that brings wuxia action into a city environment, with NPCs, factions and rules for firearms.
A short RPG about those who can travel through fiction.
The Metropole Luxury Coffin is home to the dregs of society. You’re not like them, though. You’re going to get out of here someday.
A simplified version of the d20 System.
OGL
Play a simpler, lighter D&D 4E
"Milky Way Express is a Free Print-and-Play space trading and exploration game."
Play the minion servant of a supervillain.
A simple fantasy RPG.
OCL
'A tense, tactical game of giant robot squad battle!'
"A love letter to one of the greatest folk games of all time."
'Monster RPG 2 is a fantasy quest that spans continents and worlds and lets you take a simple villager and develop her into a hero with the power to save her world.'
GIYO
Spice up your Monopoly game with Godzilla.
A collaborative storytelling game.
Post-apocalyptic role-playing compatible with Labyrinth Lord.
OGL
Uses a handful of Warhammer 40K miniatures.
Play a squid mechanic or a redneck father in this Hackbird.
An RPG for couples, originally inspired by True Blood, Twilight, Let the Right One In, Buffy, and other tales of star-crossed vampire-human romances.
An adaptation of 2E AD&D.
OGL
"Mythender is a roleplaying adventure game about stabbing gods in the face and sundering every mythic being until there’s none left."
A wizarding setting for REIGN. (REIGN Supplement #13)
The story of a neo-Nazi looking after four old people waiting to die.
A game of heroic soldiers fighting against an alien invasion.
OGL
A website for nerds with a Minecraft webcomic
A LARP about the death of journalism.
A supplement for Rivers and Lakes containing optional rules and a series of linked quests.
"On April 25th 2011, [8in8] entered Mad Oak Studios hoping to write and record eight songs in eight hours - webcasting the entire writing and recording process."
A Spanish language music blog-magazine.
'Nose Ears is an absurd comic about the absurd things in life.'Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 (Unported)
The only role-playing game where the characters are all bloggers.
CC BY-NC
A retroclone of 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
Trying to capture that sweet spot in a new way.
A Dungeon World database.
A "meditation on fate, growing older and how people change over time."
Randomly generate monsters for REIGN.
Randomly generate spells for REIGN.
A collection of rules-free dungeons on one page each.
A website with many free ebooks, some of which are open.
A book about the importance of open design.
'This system is intended to be a streamlined and open tactical RPG. The primary source of inspiration is Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition.'
OGL
The popular D6 System finally released as open.
OGL
A complete and easy to play fantasy roleplaying game, with monsters, magic and exotic locales. OpenQuest uses the classic D100 rules mechanic, which uses percentages to express the chance of success or failure.
OGL
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"Internet users from across the globe have come together to create a crowdsourced vision for free expression online."
A REIGN supplement, where humans match alien supertechnology with unrelenting violence. (REIGN Supplement #15)
Unofficial supplement for Feng Shui.
'Stories of the future present'
A collection of Pathfinder official and third party materials.
OGL
'Path 2 Victory is a tabletop roleplaying and skirmish game. It simplifies the PF2e rules so monster and hero profiles fit on a single playing card, but keeps them rich and detailed enough to provide tactical and imaginative gameplay.'
ORC
A role-playing game based on Dungeons & Dragons 3.5.
OGL
A fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.
ORC
OGL
' Pathwarden is a Pathfinder 2e hack released under ORC License.'
ORC
'Phylo is: (1) a card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex, and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity; (2) an exercise in crowd sourcing, (free) access, and (transparent) game development; and (3) FREAKIN’ AWESOME!'
Pirate Cinema successfully follows the same pattern as his previous YA novels, mixing an adventurous, whip smart young main character with a relevant socio-political theme and wrapping all of it in a fast-paced, entertaining story.
A roleplaying game set on a water world.
A Dungeon Squad hack for piratical adventures.
"Pitch Deck is a game about convincing your friends to invest in the most ridiculous startups imaginable."
A miniatures game that uses plastic soldiers.
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A Lady Blackbird hack set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future.
How to survive in the wild.
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A company that remasters public domain music.
A rules-lite game that works only in conjunction with early editions of Dungeons & Dragons
OCL
An open version of the character creation and advancement rules from Dungeons & Dragons 3E.
OGL
Open hardware to clean up oil spills.
Post apocalyptic Dungeon Squad.
Anarchy reigns when an obsessive, talentless band reforms for one last tour, heedless of body count.
Generic sci-fi game rules.Own license
'QuestWorlds is a rules and prep-lite RPG system that facilitates beginning play easily, and resolving conflicts in play quickly.'
ORC
A donations-based music label.
"A grab bag of rules support. Nain, Ardwin and Out of the Violent Planet all get expanded material, but much of it is perfectly adaptable to any REIGN game at all, full stop."
OSR Fantasy RPG based on Steve Jackson's "The Fantasy Trip" with updated rules and original races (no elves, dwarves, or halflings).
'The Rainbow Deck is a card game system that has a total of 162 cards.'
Raven Crowking's reworking of Dungeons & Dragons
OGL
"Records on Ribs is a record label. We give away all our music for free download under a Creative Commons license. We also provide beautifully made and fairly priced physical releases."
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'The front page of the Internet.'
'Winner of the 2008 Richard Eastman fiction prize, “Regret, With Math” is about a young man who studies the martial arts, or doesn’t, and who dates his former college buddy’'s ex- girlfriend, or doesn’t, and who gets in horrible, life altering trouble. Or possibly doesn’t. It’s also about parallel universe theory.'
''Renaissance is a free D100 roleplaying system designed for historical and fantasy gaming in the age of black powder weapons.''
OGL
A mash-up of the locations of open access repositories.
How money pollutes democracy.
A rules-light pulp game.
A Fallout-style RPG based on Old School Hack.
Fight a conspiracy with your cabal of alchemists.
A slimline historical wuxia game.
Robot Hamlet and his companions have been abandoned on the terrifying Ghost Asteroid by the villainous robot Richard III.
A five-year-old girl named Rosalind tries to resolve the problems of her alien visitors.
The RuneQuest core rules.
OGL
A live-action role-playing game set in an alternate pseudo-history.
'(P)rovides a forum for the exchange and sharing of know-how in the areas of Digitalization and Multimedia Technologies and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in support of Cultural and environmental Heritage (CH) documentation, preservation and fruition.'
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A rules-light narrative game engine.
''Saga Machine is a brand new tabletop role-playing system by the Tab Creations Collective.''
OGL
A fantasy campaign setting for Dungeon World.
Hand selected comics from the gratis webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Supplements 7 to 12 for REIGN.
"Secret Hitler is a social deduction game for 5–10 people about finding and stopping the Secret Hitler."
A collection of role-playing material.
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A mashup of Old School Hack and Shadowrun.
Children accompanied by their formidable Shadows.
CC BY
"Performed, recorded and produced by The Knife in Stockholm and Berlin 2010-2012."
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A simple d20-based RPG.
OGL
Software allowing you to design and build your own wooden furniture.
3D models for viewing and download.Creative Commons licenses
"slash is a card-based party game in which players compete to create the best romantic fan fiction pairing."
Read to live. Live to read.
*Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. *
*Sneaky Cards is designed to encourage, inspire, or facilitate playful interactions. Breaking up the tedium of everyday life, with small entertaining objectives. Each card is created to be unique and develop different kinds of play.*
Teenagers struggle to discover the truth behind their mysterious sleep-walking.
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Space opera in what appears to be German.
A classless version of the d20 System.
OGL
A retro role-playing game that combines Chainmail and Original Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
Pulp two-fisted adventure in the 1930s.
OGL
Cartoons and illustrations.
Science fiction role-playing using the original Dungeons & Dragons rules.
OGL
Arcade gamers are recruited for a stellar war.
A science fiction game and a setting with no strict cannon.
OCL
An RPG based on the movies that parodied Star Trek.
A role-playing blog.
A roleplaying game that celebrates the sense of possibility in the Victorian era.
CC BY
An artist, primarily of fantasy portraits.
A big book of names from different cultures.
A solitaire game that tells a story.
Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide
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A d20-based game dedicated to gonzo gaming.
Bringing indie sensibilities to the d20 System.
CC BY
A retroclone of original and whitebox Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
A documentary about a court case against The Pirate Bay
A website about tropes in fiction, mythology and real life.
A simple, abstract board game.
An adventure game set on a skyship.
Horror role-playing resource.
A role-playing game without any elves.
Play Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber in this Lady Blackbird hack.
A cyberpunk game that uses a d20.
OGL
A game which allows you to describe almost anything based on its 'levels'.
An old school tabletop RPG with each concept explained on one page.
OGL
A role-playing game designed for one of the most popular fantasy trilogies of all time.
OGL
About open source, crowdsourcing and community creation from Jono Bacon, the man who runs Wired.
Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet.
An experimental RPG based on the John Gay play of the same name.
A take on 0E D&D that avoids using d20s altogether.
OGL
Collages created from a number of photos.
Peer reviewed journalism.
A Plantagenet family drama LARP for 7-9 players
A political satire about the situation that used to prevail in the Israeli-Lebanese boder.
CC BY-SA
A story of those with inhuman power and very human relationships.
A game about commercialisation of content.
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Play a martial artist attending the greatest tournament ever held.
A documentary about Aaron Swartz.
Old warriors gather round a campfire to tell stories of their exploits and prepare for the final battle of their careers.
"The Manual is a design journal for the web, with thrice-yearly issues in print, ebook, audiobook, and online."
The second SMBC compilation, featuring comics from the entire archive, but focused on 2011.
'44 stories. 19 poems. No sparkly vampires. There’s a thin line between genius and insanity, and James Hutchings has just crossed it – but from which direction?'
Open source software on Windows.
This is a game about a little girl. The only little girl in the whole wide world. The only person there is, really.
A book on copyright, copyleft and everything else.
An album from Nine Inch Nails.
The rise of Solidarity in Poland.
A game about that troublesome Rose!
'Players on the Uncanny Highway experience life as the truckers, bikers, runaways, journalists, musicians, hippies, fugitives, and assorted lost souls stranded together on a road where every American legend appears to be true.'
ORC
People from the real world are catapulted into a land of fairy tales.
Sci-fi about human-cyborg relations.
A book on the information networks made possible by the Internet.
These musicians are saying that true creativity needs to be open, fluid, and alive. When it comes to copyright, they are pro-choice. Here are 16 songs that encourage people to play with their tunes, not just play them.
CC Sampling+
CC NC-Sampling+
An adventure for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons.
OGL
'Theatre Is Evil is a studio album by Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra produced by John Congleton.'
A new comic book covering 2000 years of musical borrowing, from Plato to rap.
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A world of nautical fantasy adventure.
Poems.
Three alternative settings for REIGN.
An engaging presentation of logical fallacies.
Sick people become superheroes.
A rules-light RPG for the noir genre.
Time & Temp is a game of time travel and underemployment for 3 to 5 players.
Play mice champions for whom it's not how you fight but what you fight for.
A retroclone of 0D&D.
OGL
Torus One RPG is a science fiction role-playing game, where all the action happens in a crowded ring-shaped space station with a circumference of 1609 meters.
Ready an army from your old toys!
Open source (well, semi-open) religion.
A long-lived role-playing game with some setting details.
OGL
A modular, symbols-based RPG.
The basic rules of FATE on three pages.
OGL
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The world's first Ubuntu manga.
Free culture that has been chosen by the Ubuntu community.
Dungeons & Dragons 4E rules in a modern setting.
OGL
Tables of treasures for dungeon-crawling fantasy.
CC BY-SA
Rebuild the fallen Human Empire.
In this game, vampires are constantly engaged in a violent physical struggle for power, respect and security.
Sci-fi based tabletop board game.
A game of spacial relationships.
Quick and easy (though probably not well-balanced) rules for playing miniatures games with any figurines you have lying about.
A steampunk RPG set on a Goblin airship.
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A parody which brings the gratuitous violence of the dungeon into the modern age.
A swashbuckling space adventure for Basic Fantasy RPG.
OGL
A supplement for vs Monsters.
OGL
A 24HRPG by Phil Reed.
OGL
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An OGL version of the RPG Over the Edge.
OGL
War Galley is a game of naval warfare, which can be built and played using only matches.
'Download 3D blueprints of all your favorite Warcraft Rumble minis to help bring the joyful chaos to life.'
Contest and intrigue at the Warlord's court.
Points-buy medieval fantasy role-playing.
OGL
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A game for teaching languages in a fun and accessible way
MC Lars song made available for remix.
A list of game engines on Wikipedia.
An RPG of high adventure in the 1920s.
A setting for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
OCL
Ryan St's rewriting of original D&D in the style of Apocalypse World.
OGL
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Literature written by a collective.
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A boardgame.
A detailed pulp-and-planet game.
a science fiction tabletop RPG using the SFX! system
''Deadly. Mercenary. Superhuman. Not your ordinary math geek.''
Why mess around with clerics and balors when you can have zombies?
a fantasy roleplaying game using the SFX! system
"d0x3d! is a cooperative game, for 2-4 players. Players assume the role of hackers, infiltrating a network."
Modern role-playing, from occult investigation to special ops and anything in between.
OGL
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Zany space adventures powered by the Token Effort system.