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My How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox is a walkthrough and discussion of it steps using the creation of the Isle of Pyade setting as an example. The Sandbox Generator is a set of useful tools to generate a map procedurally, its locales, and the details of the locales and what could be encountered...

I'm just letting folks know that How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox, based on my blog posts, has been released on DriveThruRPG. I also released The Isle of Pyade, which extracts the example setting I used in the book as a standalone reference if you want to use it for your campaign. The Isle of Pyade...

Technically, Wizards said they would quit offering the OGL. But your point still stands: It was a legal threat.

Likely will provide lawyers who are experts in defending open content licenses to represent the publisher who is being sued by Wizards. It will follow the same pattern as other lawsuits involving open source or open content. The most relevant example is Jacobsen v. Katzer. The case involved...

Unlike the OGL, Creative Commons is backed by a far larger team of legal minds operating around the world. Moreover, the version of CC-BY (4.0) that the D&D 5e SRD was licensed was created after the issues with revocability were brought up. Whereas the OGL remains frozen in the legal world of...

In the absence of Dave Arneson's actual notes (the ones he used to run Blackmoor), I give greater weight to folks' accounts of him being an excellent "seat of his pants" referee who was continually adding and tweaking things to his campaign. For example, coming up with a cleric class to act as...

Serious research into the development of D&D has been ongoing since the late 2000s thanks to folks like Jon Peterson who wrote Playing at the World and others like the Hawk & Moor series and the various forums that the original players hang out at. While there were several missing pieces folks...

No Arneson rules were known to be different than what Gygax wrote up. It more accurate to say that Arneson invented tabletop roleplaying starting with running a campaign based on a fantasy Braunstein, Blackmoor. Then taught Gygax who in turned wrote Dungeons & Dragons, and ran the Greyhawk...

Appreciate all the support everybody here has given my kickstarter! Now above $11,000 and over 650 backers! If you missed my first announcement there are still 3 days left to go before it ends. So far the new PoD digest version of Blackmarsh has been released along with the beta layouts for How...

Thanks for the compliment and glad that you found both books useful. And for folks who don't know both are very lite on the stats due to both book's focus on detailing a region. This makes it easy to use either with other editions and other fantasy RPGs. For the past few months I have been...

I posted the first beta layout for my How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox Kickstarter backers. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/batintheatticgames/how-to-make-a-fantasy-sandbox

Yes From here https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt The basic gist is that anything based on Black Flag must also include the attribution to Wizards. Not hard to fulfill as requirements go. ORC Axe has a specific recommendation on how to handle this.

How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox Starting in 2009, I wrote a series of 24 posts on the Bat in the Attic blog covering the different aspects of creating a hexcrawl-formatted setting. Over 150,000 views later I have finished the series. Along the way, many of you thanked me for writing the series...

The one where I finally write the last post in a series fleshing out the steps of How to make a Fantasy Sandbox. Also includes a draft of the travel rules I am developing for the Majestic Fantasy RPG. A standalone book has been written consolidating the posts and is in the process of being...

In the long run, I think it is going to take either transcripts or well-edited videos with commentary to help reinforce the points we make. From working on the youtube video of our session it is proving to be a lot more work than I thought to distill it. Even when I just limit myself to the...

This is the entire quote from the AD&D 1e PHB This is not at all similar to what Baker talked about in the Flow of the Game section. Yes, characters are a literary concept. No type of RPG can avoid some connection to literary concepts. But which concept Sandbox Campaigns uses and how they are...

That sound reasonable but however you are still missing the point. Sandbox campaigns were played from the earliest days of the hobby. Elements that made up these campaigns were used in other styles in varying combinations. My point is that until the mid-2000s the idea that the concepts used...

That wasn't the main point of that part of my reply. I mentioned it because the word was used back then with a different meaning I addressed that. That sounds about right for the early 1990s. Except in my experience campaigns focused on "Open world" exploration wasn't considered distinct from...

I answered that in my post.