List of potential post-OGL 5E replacement RPGs

[mhd]

It seems we're getting into people and organisations already planning and talking about their replacements for D&D 5E. So I thought we'd keep track of them.

Note that I'm talking about games that at least seem closely related to 5/5.1E, not replacing D&D with other systems like OpenD6 or BRP, as much as I'd want that to happen.

Kobold Press, Project Black Flag:
Source: Blog Post "Raising Our Flag"
Details: Not much, supposed to be "available, open, and subscription-free"

MCDM (Matt Colville), Unnamed Weird Dice RPG:
Source: From live stream, as reported on Enworld, Reddit

Others already in the pipeline?

 

[JEB]

Cubicle 7's "C7d20 System": Cubicle 7 Also Announces A New 'C7d20' System

 

[VenerableBede]

An already-existing RPG I’m quite fond of is EZD6. Rules-light, but with enough crunch to satisfy.

 

[kunadam]

Level Up (probably less known around here... )

 

[Steampunkette]

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

Welcome to Level Up, the standalone 'advanced 5E' backwards compatible tabletop RPG!

www.enworld.org

Forums is good.

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

The standalone 'advanced 5E' backwards compatible tabletop RPG!

www.levelup5e.com

Level Up is great.

Home | Level Up

a5e.tools

Tools Site is incredible

Advanced 5E System Reference Document

a5esrd.com

No-OGL SRD is being put out PDF by PDF as the OGL is stripped away so we can use Creative Commons or ORC, instead.

The guy who runs these forums bankrolled and published the best 5e replacement RPG there is. And the designers who worked on it hang out on these forums. The 3rd party publishers, too. Freelance writers as well.

Everyone looking for Post OGL 5e Replacements should be looking over at the Level Up forum, because it's awesome!

 

[dave2008]

Bugbears and Borderlands by @Sacrosanct is a simplified 5e that is being reworked to remove the need for the OGL (available now under OGL). It takes the opposite approach from LevelUp in providing a simpler vesion of 5e. This is more my groups speed, though I do love LevelUp myself.

PS it is incredibly cheap at $1.00 USD for the PDF (print versions are reasonable too).

 

[Strider1973]

Level Up! Is absolutely great!

 

[Jadeite]

Fateforge will continue on its 5.5 branch. The core books are also currently pay what you want:

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

 

[dave2008]

Fateforge will continue on its 5.5 branch. The core books are also currently pay what you want:

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

I am always interested in new ideas, what does FateForge bring to the table?

 

[Jadeite]

I am always interested in new ideas, what does FateForge bring to the table?

I haven't really checked them, I'm currently rather occupied with digesting PF2. I got the monster book from KS and it's pretty.
But the books are PWYW, so you can check it yourself. It's close to the SRD, with subclasses, etc added. It also already referred to races as species.