Open Legend: An Open Source Tabletop RPG now on Kickstarter
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:43 pmI just thought I'd tell everyone about this. I'd mentioned it before, but hadn't really talked much about it. Open Legend is an open source (literally, it has a github page) tabletop roleplaying game that recently has come out on Kickstarter to fund high-production-value PDF and print materials. There's about a week left in the Kickstarter fundraiser, so feel free to check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/62 ... escription
In the interest of full disclosure, my the Legacy of Eight setting won the backer's choice mini-campaign contest, so I actually am making some money off of Open Legend, though at this point further backers don't really increase the moolah for me (though it is kinda cool).
The mechanics are fairly simple (and available online already: the Kickstarter is just to put them in print), with a lot of exploding dice but a generally D&D-lite feel. Spells are replaced with an effect list that can be triggered by characters with the appropriate levels in the selection of the ~18 attributes which can trigger those effects. Rather than having individual skills, attributes abstract most actions into a few possible elements (e.g. Learning for knowledge skills, Agility for stealth and dexterity, Presence for leadership).
It's a heckuvalot of fun to play (I've proselytized so that one of my former players is going to run his first campaign [I think, unless he's double-dipped on us] using the system in just a couple weeks), and it has some real wiz-bang stuff going into it. Heck, Ed Greenwood's working on it (and gave it a formal endorsement!).
In the interest of full disclosure, my the Legacy of Eight setting won the backer's choice mini-campaign contest, so I actually am making some money off of Open Legend, though at this point further backers don't really increase the moolah for me (though it is kinda cool).
The mechanics are fairly simple (and available online already: the Kickstarter is just to put them in print), with a lot of exploding dice but a generally D&D-lite feel. Spells are replaced with an effect list that can be triggered by characters with the appropriate levels in the selection of the ~18 attributes which can trigger those effects. Rather than having individual skills, attributes abstract most actions into a few possible elements (e.g. Learning for knowledge skills, Agility for stealth and dexterity, Presence for leadership).
It's a heckuvalot of fun to play (I've proselytized so that one of my former players is going to run his first campaign [I think, unless he's double-dipped on us] using the system in just a couple weeks), and it has some real wiz-bang stuff going into it. Heck, Ed Greenwood's working on it (and gave it a formal endorsement!).