What is the Open RPG Rules Project?
The Open RPG Rules Project was started by two gamers who were discouraged by the economic ebb and flow of the gaming industry. As they watched the publishers of their favorite role-playing games go out of business or simply drop their product lines, the two realized there must be a better way to keep their favorite games alive. Realizing that in order for this to happen, reliance on commercial ventures had to be reduced, Norm Fenlason and James Pearson created the Open RPG Rules Project with the goal of creating a freely available, standard set of generic rules that could be used for nearly any role-playing game. These rules have to be free of license-based reprisals and prevention of creative material falling into a licensed black hole.
