Best of public domain games

March 14, 2008 1:02 PM

I'm looking for recommendations on gpl'd or public domain card games and role playing games. Which ones are easiest to learn and the most fun?
posted by JaySunSee to sports, hobbies, & recreation (6 comments total)

Werewolf/Mafia, there are about a million variations and it's easy to pick up.
posted by onalark at 1:13 PM on March 14, 2008

There's also 1000 Blank White Cards, which is pretty awesome.

Mao is not *exactly* what I would call easy to learn, but oh man is it fun.
posted by Lemurrhea at 1:58 PM on March 14, 2008

Battle for Wesnoth. http://www.wesnoth.org/
posted by Tachoh at 2:00 PM on March 14, 2008

There's an open-source card game based on Jonathan Coulton's song "Code Monkey". No idea if it's good, but I'm curious to find out.

If you're willing to venture in to board games, BoardGameGeek has a huge list of games that are free to print-and-play (note, though, free != public domain).
posted by mkultra at 2:06 PM on March 14, 2008

Some good answers so far. Thank you.
posted by JaySunSee at 2:54 PM on March 14, 2008

Maybe this resource would help? I haven't looked carefully at it but it was an answer to a previous similar question.
posted by The Bellman at 3:25 PM on March 14, 2008