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30 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read

Are you a newbie or hope-to-be #TTRPG #indiegame designer? Do you like genre-heavy and player-facing games? Or are you interested in GM-less and #solorpg games? We recently released an open license SRD. And we're willing to take pitches for mentorship!
drivethrurpg.com/product/361409…

The SRD itself has a conversational walkthrough style that cover a variety of build possibilities in way useful for newbies and old hands alike. The mentorship offer comes with no strings attached and no costs. We will consult with you to bring a Motif game to life.

Aside from the SRD conditions, we only ask that you add a given phrase to the Attribution Text acknowledging our mentorship and assistance. Otherwise, the copyright is all yours. You own the result. You owe us no money & no royalties. We just want to help people make Motif games.

You may use the result however you wish, as along as you follow the simple SRD licensing requirements. You may give it away free. You may self-publish it or release it through a publisher. And so on. We also offer a licensing option where we handle the releases and pay a royalty.

If we license a Motif work from you, it is still yours. You still own the copyright. We will only license publishing rights from you. If we stop publishing or make your title unavailable, you get all the rights back *plus* any rights to our works that you need to make it work.

The big exception is that works based on our unique IPs, like NEVER Stop Smiling or No Angels Live Here, may only be released under their non-commercial licenses or in partnership with us. Those unique worlds are not part of the SRD and we maintain commercial control over them.

We will accept pitches for works based on our unique properties, such as other games set in the same world or major supplements. But this mentorship program is focused on people who want to create their own unique TTRPG games and solo, GM-less, or low prep toolkits.

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A consolidated #WIPWednesday thread of our #TTRPG efforts. Because we are, uh... busy...

1) Motif World Engine update in playtesting as the last stage before release.
2) Motif Character Engine update in progress.
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