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Mail Call: Enter the Creative Commons Era
A "new" era of RPG publishing is hitting the Old-School Games scene, and it could bring some exciting ideas. I check out new versions of three classics.
#ccby #cc #osr #mailcall
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2023/07/mail-call-enter-creative-commons-era.html
@timsbrannan It’s awesome to see this — especially the cc by-sa release! That’s like getting the fruits of 20 years of arguing RPGs to become for free culture — and getting them in the most unexpected way.
For RPGs — the games where the collective creativity of the gaming group vastly outstrips the creativity within any given book — there should be pathways to combine these into a bigger whole. cc by-sa finally provides that.
@timsbrannan and for me two of the big advantages of cc licenses over the OGL are that cc by-sa is the license used by Wikipedia (you can reuse content from WP in your cc by-sa games) and there is a clear path from cc by over cc by-sa to GPL — the most widespread license for copyleft Free Software — so those rule texts can now be used as they are in Free Software.
This finally realizes a unification I’ve pushed towards for years: https://www.draketo.de/english/free-software/by-sa-gpl
@ArneBab I did not know this! Thanks for the heads up!