Outlands: Free Tabletop Sci-fi RPG From 1995

[dariusk]

For those of you interested in sci-fi tabletop RPGs (and I'm sure that's a lot of you), my friend Chris Bateman notes that his second ever published RPG is now available online for free. Originally published in 1995, Outlands "take[s] a variety of different classic science fiction sources - including Aliens, Angel Station, Blade Runner, Dune,

Comments

[dirkcjelli]

so is this free-and-open, such that it can be taken and strewn about and hacked at... or Free-but-owned, such that one has to still do that on the sly?

[dariusk]

Asking him now, should have an update in a bit.

[dariusk]

He's fine with people downloading it for personal use, and nobody's stopping you from hacking at it for personal use as well, but eventually he'd like to use the IP in a computer RPG one day so as far as putting hacked bits up all around the web or incorporating them into a public work, maybe not.

I am trying to encourage him to pick a CC-license, but he might not do that.

[dirkcjelli]

Yeah, sounds like he wants attribution, noncommercial, non-derivative.