Why Should I Back This Project?
Well… this project offers a great deal of flexibility and resources to referees and their players. The Big Red Ugly Edition offers three play styles: rules-light, half-crunch. and crunchy. You and your group decide how crunch you want to get with the rules, and the rulebook is written to facilitate this easier than most TTRPG systems out there.
Last updated: March 23, 2023 11:04
How Will You Credit Backers?
Backers will be credited within the publication itself, with their consent of course. A survey will be sent out to see how backers want to be credited within the rulebook.
Last updated: March 23, 2023 11:05
Is This Project Open-Source?
Yes! Here are our licensing and open-gaming statements:
The Rapture Roleplay System (v. 3.0), which powers this game, is an open-license roleplaying game system. As such, it is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, covering all text and tables pertaining to the rules found in this product. Rapture was built using the following systems and games: • Breathless, a product by Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. • Other parts of this game system are based on Cairn (licensed for our use under CC-BY-SA 4.0) by Yochai Gal and Jim Parkin’s Ultralight Star Wars Roleplaying Game (also licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 for our uses). • Fate Core System and Fate Accelerated Edition (found at http://www.faterpg.com/), products of Evil Hat Productions, LLC, developed, authored, and edited by Leonard Balsera, Brian Engard, Jeremy Keller, Ryan Macklin, Mike Olson, Clark Valentine, Amanda Valentine, Fred Hicks, and Rob Donoghue, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). • Fate System Toolkit (found at http://www.faterpg.com/), a product of Evil Hat Productions, LLC, developed, authored, and edited by Robert Donoghue, Brian Engard, Brennan Taylor, Mike Olson, Mark Diaz Truman, Fred Hicks, and Matthew Gandy, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). • System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. • Modern-Orc, published by Vajra Enterprises and written by Brian St. Claire-King, licensed using CC-BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) for our purposes. • Siren: Simple RPG Engine by Niko Lepka which has been licensed for our use under CC-BY-SA 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
An Open Gaming Project Statement (v. 1.0a, Public Domain/CC0). The project before you is considered an open gaming product, meaning the rules and other designated materials can be “freely copied, modified and distributed” (per the Open Gaming Foundation, 2023) under a largely unrestricted (think: copyleft or permissive) license. This product uses unrestricted licenses to allow the project’s mechanics (and other material designated as open content) to remain open indefinitely. The open-licensed material cannot be closed off once contributed to the larger public (in digital, print, hybrid, etc. formats). Open gaming-friendly licenses might include, but are not limited to, the following: CC-BY (3.0 or higher), CC-BY-SA (3.0 or higher), Open Publication License, and the GNU General Public License and the Free Documentation License (Free Software Foundation). This statement is meant to be an affirmation of open game philosophies found in game design and game development, as well as a mark of public accountability to be seen within the product in question. This statement does not constitute a license, nor should it be construed as legal advice.
Last updated: March 23, 2023 11:07
Six Settings… Are You Serious?
Yes, of course, we are! Many of the six (06) settings offered in the Big Red Ugly Edition are existing products produced by Free Radicals Press (G. Michael Rapp) and Softcore Anarchy (Tyler McAlister).
Last updated: March 23, 2023 11:33
How Can I Use This for My Own Projects?
Rapture is released under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License, meaning as long as you give credit (and offer the credits to those systems and games used for Rapture) you are free to use Rapture for just about any TTRPG project you can think of. Check out our FAQ response above on licensing.
Last updated: March 23, 2023 11:33
Current Estimated Shipping Date: December 2023
Hi, folks, I am delaying the Kickstarter backers launch until tomorrow, Friday, December 15, at around 5:00p. Mountain Time, as I want to do another quality control pass through the PDFs, sheets, and whatnot. I will send a confirmation around 10:00a. Mountain Time, with a heads-up concerning send time for all backers. I do apologize for the delay; however, I want to make sure this is the very best thing heading your way. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me. Best regards, Gregory M. Rapp
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