Book

The abridged but functional rules for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons. OGL

Ars Magica 5th Edition

'Play magi and their loyal companions and grogs in the fantastical world of medieval Mythic Europe.'

Dungeon World

An RPG based on Apocalypse World for dungeoncrawling adventure. OGL

Moby-Dick

Novel Literature

Classic novel of a sea captain on the hunt for a great white whale.

Sahipkıran

Picturebooks Illustration Literature

'Sahipkıran is a fast and easy-to-learn, mini-agnostic tabletop wargame which you can use your miniature figures to fight battles with.'

Stick's Masterpiece

A whimsical children's picturebook.

Taming Fire

Novel Literature

The first book in an epic fantasy series.

1923: A Monthly Zine of Public Domain Treasures

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.

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.

Ada & Zangemann

'A book that arouses children's interest in tinkering and encourages shaping technology.'

African Storybook

The African Storybook initiative aims to address the shortage of contextually appropriate books for early reading in the languages of Africa. Our vision is for all young African children to have enough enjoyable books to read in a familiar language to practise their reading skills and learn to love reading.

African Storybook Project

Our vision is for all African children to have enough stories in a language familiar to them to practise reading and learn to love reading.

An Open Education Reader

Education

A collection of readings on open education with commentary.

Aumyr

A fantasy setting for tabletop role-playing games.

Babes in the Wood

'Encounter the peculiar folks who reside within and help solve their problems while confronting your own relationships & fears.'

Battle aXe

'Battle aXe is a fantasy mass combat supplement for old school tabletop role-playing games, and their clones.'

Big Buck Bunny Board Book

A book for children introducing them to words and concepts.

Black Flag Roleplaying

'a free, open gaming system that enables anyone to play and create fantasy tabletop worlds, adventures, and sourcebooks' ORC

Blades in the Dark RPG

Tabletop RPG of heists.

Bloody Forks

LARP

A LARP about the French and American battles before the War of Independence. 11 players.

Book Dash

Literature

Children's books, focused on Africa.

CAPERS Core Design Guide

'This PDF breaks down the CAPERS Core game system.'

Card Armies: Battle For Wesnoth

Card Game

Card Armies: Battle For Wesnoth is a strategy game designed by David Bradshaw. GPL

Cities Without Number

'This document contains the current systems reference document for the Cities Without Number cyberpunk RPG.'

Class Warfare

Mix and match your own Dungeon World classes.

Cost of Freedom

Essays on and from the free culture movement.

Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians

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.

Extra Ordinary

'Extra Ordinary is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world.'

Faded Page

Literature Nonfiction

"Faded Page is an archive of eBooks that are provided completely free to everyone."

Fantasy Express

'Fantasy Express is a new game, based on Against the Darkmaster and the Grievious Grimoire.'

Free Culcha Piecepack

Boardgame

This book is a collection of games that you can play with the piecepack.

Free for All

Art Tabletop Roleplaying

Free Culture, Games and Design

Full Command

"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."

Future of Copyright 2.0 Anthology

Literature Information

Fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.

Future of Copyright Anthology

Literature Information

Short fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.

Glide

'GLIDE is a solo (and cooperative) sci-fi tabletop RPG adventure game inspired by the world of Frank Herbert's Dune.'

Grimwild: Cinematic Fantasy Roleplaying

'Grimwild is a streamlined, character-driven, cinematic fantasy RPG.'

House Of Refuge

Short Stories

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I Can Do Anything Badly 2

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.

Leebre

Novel Short Stories

A book publishing site.

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition

'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

Light Fantasy

'a solid re-implementation of the classic B/X rules, but reinterpreted with an eye to the needs of the modern gamer' ORC

Liminal Horror

'a rules-lite, adaptable Survival-Horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night.'

Locus

'Locus is a bespoke, mystery/horror roleplay game with unique mechanics crafted entirely around horror.'

Made with Creative Commons

A guide to sharing your knowledge and creativity with the world, and sustaining your operation while you do.

Munchkund and His Sweet Tooth

Data Photography Nonfiction

A picturebook about a bear.

Museums Victoria Collections

This site allows users to explore the natural sciences and humanities collections of Museum Victoria in Australia, featuring collections of zoology, geology, palaeontology, history, indigenous cultures and technology. Over 1.15 million records were presented at launch in 2015, accompanied by over 150,000 images.

Mythic Mortals

"In Mythic Mortals you play as yourself, suddenly granted the unstable powers of Ancient Heroes!"

No Country for Old Kobolds

A roleplaying game based on Dungeon World.

Novus

'Taking Novus to the next level, Novus 2e is a skill based system with no levels or classes.'

Open Adventure: Fantasy Core Rules

'Open Adventure: Fantasy is a fast-paced, cinematic roleplaying system you can download for free today!'

Paragon System Reference Document

The rules from the AGON roleplaying game.

Population Of Loss

Short Stories

Anthology of science fiction short stories.

Pressbooks Directory

'The Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 8,727 open access books published across 211 unique networks using Pressbooks.'

Pwning Tomorrow

Short Stories

"Donate and download Pwning Tomorrow, a free, Creative Commons-licensed anthology of short fiction curated by EFF! The anthology commemorates EFF's quarter-century of fighting for digital rights, and features superstar writers speculating on the upcoming 25 years and beyond."

Rafu's Awkward

Awkward is a family-comedy role-playing game for 5 players which purports to be the "New Wave of Italian Freeform". Whatever that means.

Resistance Toolbox

The rules from the RPGs 'Spire' and 'Heart'.

Seeking Refuge

Novel

A modern take on the Scarlet Pimpernel with a mild superhero flair.

Solar Sign

'This tactical tabletop wargame lets you command elite squads in gritty skirmishes, combining strategy, story, and supernatural power. '

Songs and Sagas

'Songs and Sagas is a condensed OSR inspired tabletop role-playing game of axes, runes, spirits and legends' ORC

The Dragonswarm

Literature

The second in a trilogy of fantasy novels.

The Hack

A 'class-and-level-based roguelike dungeon crawler game, reasonably compatible with other leading brands'

The Most Amazing Online Organizing Guide Ever!

"[A] new FREE guide designed to help environmental and social change activists kick butt and break through on social media."

The Open Revolution

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The Plant

A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.

The SELinux Coloring Book

Colouring Books

A colouring book that explains SELinux policies.

The Shadow of Yesterday

A pioneering RPG where characters are defined by their Keys and Secrets. CC BY-SA CC BY-NC-SA

The Whispering Road

"The Whispering Road is a storytelling game of cooperation and exploration, inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli."

Tiny d10

'the complete Tiny d10 tabletop role-playing game system, styled in the fantasy tradition'

Ulysses

Novel

A great modern novel.

Understanding Open Access

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.

Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts

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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.

Waiting...

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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.

What's Old Is New

'What's OLD is NEW uses a flexible d6 dice pool system and lifepath character creation rules.' OGL ORC

Wizard-Spawned Insanities

The Monthly Monsters project is back with another monster manual for Dungeon World!

Worlds Without Number

'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.'

Worlds in Peril