Easy-To-Hack Tabletop RPGs For Aspiring Creators
Easy-To-Hack Tabletop RPGs For Aspiring Creators
Easy-To-Hack Tabletop RPGs For Aspiring Creators
By Coleman Gailloreto
December 24, 2020
Summary
Want to design a tabletop RPG? These open-source game systems are flexible enough to fit many different concepts and ideas for aspiring game devs. Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons are cool, but building a new tabletop RPG is even cooler.
For this reason, many roleplaying game makers search for pre-existing, open-source RPG systems that they can "Hack" to fit the needs of their own games.
The RPG systems listed below are particularly easy to hack, thanks to their intuitive, flexible mechanics and accessibility under Creative Commons licenses.
With this setting-agnostic ruleset, independent game designers could freely develop their own content using the rules of D&D, as long as they included the official d20 System logo on their cover and abided by the standards of its Open Game License.
The success of the d20 System kickstarted the development of many other "Hackable" tabletop game systems, their mechanics carefully crafted by designers to be intuitive, easily tweaked, and easy to describe in a system reference document.
In general, the more narrative-focused an RPG is, the easier it is for third-party developers to "Hack," and the following game are no exception to this rule.
Tunnel Goons, an "Analog adventure game for nice people," is a small RPG created by the Highland Paranormal Society studio and released under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License for folks who want to share, adapt, or rebuild its mechanics for their own roleplaying games.
Reference
Gailloreto, C. (2020, December 24). Easy-To-Hack Tabletop RPGs For Aspiring Creators. Retrieved January 06, 2021, from https://screenrant.com/best-tabletop-rpg-system-make-your-own-game/