[freeroleplay] Re: A more generic free software definition
- From: Ricardo Gladwell <president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:48:51 +0100
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:03 -0400, Edward Terry wrote:
> > P.S. The transfer of hosting to our new server and upgrade of the FRPGC
> > web site continues apace. Hopefully we should have switched to the new
> > server by the weekend. Next week I hope to have another version of the
> > site up and running for review. I would also note I'm planning on
> > changing our name to the "Free RPG Community".
> >
> > Kind regards...
>
> Will http://www.freeroleplay.org be the primary address? If so, it
> seems like "Free Roleplaying Community" would make it easier for people
> to remember the website.
Actually, the reason I suggest moving to Free RPG Community is rather
mercenary: "rpg" turns up more in Internet searches and changing our
name would give us more click-thrus. Also Free RPG Community is slightly
more accurate. After all, we're about roleplaying games specifically and
not just "roleplaying" in general.
Thoughts? Do you like the new name, or would you all prefer we stay with
the old name?
> Actually, we don't limit ourselves to role-playing games, do we?
No, we support most kinds of games, but specifically roleplaying games.
> I've
> always thought a good simulation game should scale up and down, to
> function as a role-playing game or skirmish wargame (1:1 scale), a
> tactical wargame (1:10 or 1:100), an operational or strategic wargame
> (1:1000 or better), a grand-strategy wargame (focusing on wars and
> theaters rather than battles), and a nation-simulation game (in which
> players rule nations).
Tricky, but not impossible. I'm trying to work on something similar for
FRINGE, but not all RPG design objectives would be compatible with
wargames (e.g. narrativist RPGs).
> Not that my RPG does all that yet (it isn't even a complete RPG yet),
> but my goal is for it to eventually become a fully scalable simulation
> game.
Please, tell us more about your RPG. Does it have a web site or any
preview downloads?
> By the way, here's a site with listings of free-as-in-beer wargames.
>
> http://www.freewargamesrules.co.uk/
>
> I don't know whether any of these are free-as-in-speech.
Not sure if all the games are all free-as-in-beer, but the site seems
mainly to link to freeware games. That said, we have convinced freeware
publishers to re-license their content as free content in the past. If
you are interested in a certain system it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Kind regards...
--
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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