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Once Upon A Time

Posted by Steve Darlington on Monday, March 1st, 2010

When people ask me what my favorite game is, I don’t have to think very hard. For me, a good game is like a photo album: full of memories. When you look at it, you remember all the people you enjoyed it with, and all those wonderful times you had. Plenty of good games do [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘OGL’

Diaspora

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Diaspora is a roleplaying game of interstellar hard science fiction, intended, as the designers say themselves, to emulate classic, “Little Black Book” Traveller. Its engine, however, is pure FATE 3.0, the system originally published in the pulp RPG Spirit of the Century and released under the Open Game License. Diaspora is not just a SotC [...]

Pact Magic

Friday, November 27th, 2009

The multiverse is full of spirits, godlings, supernatural entities, strange constructs, and other unexplainable beings of great power and undecipherable ambitions. You are a mere mortal, an adventurer with a not-insignificant set of skills and a talent for getting yourself into jams where you need a little (or a lot) more power than you [...]

Fantasy Craft

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Fans of OGL 3.5 and Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 have another reason to rejoice: Fantasy Craft from Crafty Games. A massive book totaling 400 pages, Fantasy Craft does to OGL 3.5 what SpyCraft 2.0 did to D20 Modern: revamped it, added to it, and almost made it a new game. Fantasy Craft contains twelve [...]

Nobis: The City-States

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Fencing, misfit gnolls, and the Byzantine politics of a democracy slowly collapsing await the brave souls who dare adventure in the world of Nobis. This dangerous place is detailed in the aptly named Nobis: The City-States. An Open Gaming License (OGL) compatible product, Nobis provides over 80 pages of material containing a richly [...]