Noncommercial

Noncommercial works cannot be duplicated or adapted for commercial purposes.

This category does not include licences that forbid both commercial copying and any kind of adaptation. For those works, see Verbatim.

Openness: Proprietary

Works and Sources

Works

• Console ● An RPG for emulating console video games.
• Copyright and Creation ● A report from the London School of Economics and Political Science, finding that online sharing does not reduce creator profits.
• Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now ● Six of Cory Doctorow's short stories in comic book form.
• Crawling for Cash ● Bleak, nihilistic dungeon-crawling.
• Danger Mountain ● Play in a 1970s environmental movie.
• Danger Patrol ● A role-playing game set in the sci-fi imaginings of the 1950s.
• Darkening Skies ● An unofficial sequel to Lady Blackbird.
• Death School ● America's enemies attack a school for elite agents.
• Decktet ● 'The Decktet is a deck of cards with suits, ranks, and named images. It is structurally unlike ordinary poker and tarot decks, meaning that you can do different things with it.'
• Deconcrete ● A blog about the lives of buildings and lives in buildings.
• Destiny of the Metal Gods ● Pseudo-viking medieval Ragnarok mecha.
• Dispatches from Wondermark Manor ● '[A] rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous humor novel from the author of the celebrated comic strip “Wondermark."'
• Djinnbusters ● Hunt ghosts in a land of sultans and deserts.
• Draft ● A generic RPG with rules for magic and hit locations.
• DragonNet RPG ● A classless fantasy RPG.
• Dread ● A diceless horror game that uses a Jenga tower.
• Dread House ● Spend the night in a haunted house.
• Drowning & Falling ● The Fantasy Role-Playing Game of Adventure and Death from Drowning and Falling
• Dublab's #cc10 mix ● An hour of music created for CC's 10th birthday.
• Dungeon Crawl - Risus ● Dungeoncrawling in Risus.
• Dungeon Squad ● A simple dungeon-crawl game.
• Dungeon Squad Companion ● New options for Dungeon Squad.
• Dungeon Squad (Jim Adams) ● A hack of Dungeon Squad by Jim Adams.
• Dungeonslayers 3X ● A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (editions 3 and 3.5).
• Dungeonslayers 4 ● A fun and rules-lite dungeoncrawl game (4th edition).
• Dynamo ● A sci-fi/fantasy webseries.
• Eclipse Phase ● "Humanity stands on the cusp of a new age, with accelerated technological growth converging toward a singularity point, promising an undreamt-of future."
• El Rey Muerto ● A Spanish RPG.
• Emergency 2.0 Wiki ● An Australian disaster awareness site.
• Emily Speaks ● 'My attempt at grappling with issues of feminist dialectic in a short, entertaining fashion. Or, if you prefer, a story about a piece of software that turns loneliness into cash.'
• Epitome ● A free, universal RPG.
• Escape from Thanatos ● A Space Opera where one takes on the roles of Captain Talia Mercury, Merchant Prince Marcus Dunn, ageing Space Knight Sir Lux Angelo, Francisco - Talia's stalwart companion, and Mona - a mysterious stowaway as they crash land on the planet Thanatos after escaping the Omegan Empire!
• Executive Decision ● Compete for the trust of the President of the United States.
• Explosions & Escapes ● A simple, clean RPG for emulating action movies.
• Fate Game ● 'The game is set in a floating island and there the inhabitants have their own struggles with life. '
• First of May ● A card game inspired by a song.
• FISC ● You are all members of the FISC, the financial investigation agency, the only hope of the Republic against the all-powerful multinational companies.
• Forty Thieves ● A minimalist beer-and-pretzels game about life as an Arabian thief.
• Frost Devils ● An Alaskan take on Dust Devils.
• Generic Fantasy Quest Game ● A generic fantasy RPG with familiar races and classes.
• Ghost Lines ● '[A] 3-page micro-hack based on Apocalypse World, Dishonored, and Ghostbusters.'
• Ghostlight ● Play a ghost who interacts with the world through emotion.
• Ghosts I-IV ● Nine Inch Nails' album of 36 songs.
• Grey Lotus ● A fantasy RPG with a freeform magic system.
• Guide to Developing OA Journals ● What it says in the title.
• Gundam Blackbird ● A Hackbird inspired by Gundam.
• Hacking Politics ● 'How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet'
• Hand Covers Bruise ● A game of strategy and guess work played only with hands.
• HiLo Heroes ● A superhero RPG.
• His Due ● Ordinary people find some of their memories have been taken in exchange for deadly magical powers.

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Sources

• openDemocracy ● 'openDemocracy publishes high quality news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.'
• OpenDesk ● Purchase ready-made furniture or download the source files and make your own.
• OpenTextBookStore ● 'We scour the Internet for the best quality textbooks issued under open licenses that allow for printing.'
• Peter Watts ● A hard sci-fi author.
• Pratham Books ● A publisher of multicultural and multilingual children's books.
• Quote Unquote Records ● A donations-based music label.
• Radio Nowhere ● 'Radio Nowhere is a rock/pop band from Oakland, California, in the United States. A friend told me that we sound like the missing link between Counting Crows and Duran Duran, and that sums it up pretty well.'
• Records on Ribs ● 'Records on Ribs is a record label. We give away all our music for free download under a Creative Commons license. We also provide beautifully made and fairly priced physical releases'
• REM ● An American rock band.
• Severed Fifth ● A band.
• Small Beer Press ● "Read to live. Live to read."
• spoppy ● Cartoons and illustrations.
• Stargazer Games ● A game designer.
• Stargazer's World ● A role-playing blog.
• Storn R Cook ● An artist, primarily of fantasy portraits.
• Strolen's Citadel ● "[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource"
• Stuck In Customs ● Trey Ratcliff's travel photographs.
• Telecanter ● A tabletop RPG website.
• The Freesound Project ● A database of sounds (not songs).
• Unamused Comics ● A website that hosts three comics.
• Valent Games ● An RPG publisher, now giving its works away gratis.
• Vincent Baker ● A game designer.
• Wiley Open Access ● A variety of journals published by Wiley.
• WIRED ● A magazine.
• Wu Ming Foundation ● Literature written by a collective.
• Yaruki Zero Games ● A company that publishes a number of games.
• Yochai Benkler ● A professor of law and author of works on commons-based production.
• Zach Weiner ● A cartoonist who writes Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

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Licences

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ● A Creative Commons licence which forbids copying or adapting the work for commercial purposes.
• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike ● A Creative Commons licence which requires copies and adaptations to be under the same licence and not made for commercial purposes.
• Creative Commons NonCommercial ● A retired Creative Commons licence.
• Creative Commons NonCommercial-Sampling Plus ● A Creative Commons licence for musical works.
• Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike ● A retired Creative Commons licence.
• Creative Commons Sampling Plus ● A Creative Commons licence which allows copies and adapatations of the work provided credit is given.
• OpenContent License ● A retired noncommercial common content licence.

• Dungeon Squad ● The engine of the simple dungeoneering game of the same name by Jason Morningstar.
• Dungeonslayers ● The engine supporting the 3rd and 4th editions of Dungeonslayers.
• Hackbird ● Games based on John Harper's Lady Blackbird.
• SFX! System ● The Simple, Fast, Exciting RPG system.