Free RPG Community
The Free RPG Community (FRPGC) is an online, volunteer organisation. Our mission is to promote users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute roleplaying games by supporting free content roleplaying games.
News
The latest news and announcements from around the community, including updates, new games and free content resources.
More Copyright and Games
by Ricardo ()Jerry Stratton series of articles on copyrights and games continues with the following articles:
- Copyright and game rules
- Game supplements and compatible works
- Worlds and characters, and other copyright expansions
Basilicus Community Launched
by Ricardo ()Mark Havennar is proud announce the launch of the RPG Basilicus community, the official roleplaying community for the Basilicus worldbuilding project. This social networking site allows you to join roleplaying campaigns, create your own campaigns, network with other players and game masters, blog, and create your own Basilicus communities.
Open Fonts Library
by Ricardo ()The Open Fonts Library (OFL) is a searchable and tagged database of public domain and free content fonts. A sister to the Open Clipart Project, it is a valuable resource for free content publishers, and includes some fantastic fonts for fantasy works, such as Alphabet of Children and The Art of Illuminating.
Vale of the Azure Sun
by Ricardo ()Jerry Stratton has just published the Vale of the Azure Sun. This a weird and wonderful adventure for Gods & Monsters is suitable for three to six characters of 3rd to 5th level.
Basilicus RPG Published
by Ricardo ()Mark Havenner has published Basilicus RPG, a free content roleplaying system for his world building wiki, Basilicus. Basilicus RPG is a scalable, skill-based system published under the GFDL.
Games and Copyrights
by Ricardo ()Jerry Stratton is publishing a series of articles on copyrights and games, putting forward his arguments that game rules aren't copyrightable.Please read the first part here:
Hopefully this series will be collated and edited to provide a position document on games and copyrights for the Free RPG Community.
What is free content?
by Ricardo ()"Free content" is a work that anyone is free to use, copy, distribute, study, or change. Free content refers to the following, fundamental freedoms:
- The freedom to use the work, for any purpose.
- The freedom to change the work, with access to formats which make that convenient to do.
- The freedom to make and redistribute copies of the work.
- The freedom to distribute modified versions.
In many ways free content is like free or open source software except it applies to other works such as documents and images, and not just programs. Free content is typically published under a free content license.
Fringe
by Ricardo ()
Fringe is the flagship game for the Free RPG Community. Fringe is:
- Simple and easy to learn so you can play straight away.
- Fast, furious and fun.
- Free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer.
- Versatile so that it can play in any genre from fantasy to science fiction.
- Modular and flexible design.
Free download of the complete game, including modern and fantasy settings, is available from here.
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Projects
by Ricardo ()We also host and support other free content gaming projects. Using our project hosting services you can:
- Help out with an existing project; or
- Host your own projects.
To host your own projects simply login/register and submit your project proposal for review.
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