This week there were a lot of shares on G+ of material that is either going into the public domain like Kevin Crawford's Spears of the Dawn African influenced setting for Stars Without Number/Labyrinth Lord and Jack Logan's public domain D&D art or are licensed under a Creative Commons License like the SCP Series.
What's that mean? It means you get to have great stuff like this print from Joseph Gandy appear in your own modules:
It means that when you need an african themed picture for your next culture you've created in your game, you can pull from what Kevin has (willun-be, for the Hitchhikers among us) given to us via Spears.
It means that when you need a super creepy artifact for your next game, hopping over to SCP gives you this:
What's that mean? It means you get to have great stuff like this print from Joseph Gandy appear in your own modules:
It means that when you need an african themed picture for your next culture you've created in your game, you can pull from what Kevin has (willun-be, for the Hitchhikers among us) given to us via Spears.
It means that when you need a super creepy artifact for your next game, hopping over to SCP gives you this:
SCP-057 The Daily Grind
Item #: SCP-057
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Site-57 has been constructed to facilitate SCP-057 as relocation is not feasible. It is highly improbable that any outside knowledge of SCP-057 exists based on the circumstances of its discovery and thus security is of minimal concern. No containment procedures are required other than the prevention of unauthorized access. All research is to be delegated to Dr. Lewis and Dr. Walston unless further specified by O5 Command.
Due to the irretrievability of those placed inside SCP-057, access will be granted with the approval of Site Director █████████ and no less than two (2) members of O5 Council.
Description: SCP-057 is a subterranean stone chamber with an approximate cylindrical height of three (3) meters and diameter of eighteen (18) meters. Inside the chamber are dozens of parallelepiped stone monoliths extending from floor to ceiling which slide in various directions while SCP-057 is active. It was discovered several meters below ███████ on ██/██/████ during the construction of a secure containment enclosure for SCP-███. Consequently, SCP-███ was assigned an alternate location at Site-██.
An entrance to the chamber is located on the north-east side. When a human enters SCP-057, the door shuts and the walls inside the chamber move in such a way as to create a “path” requiring the subject's constant attention to maintain a safe course through the artifact. The path is slowly opened and closed by the moving monoliths until the human either surrenders or at last collapses of exhaustion, at which time SCP-057 crushes them and reverts to its original, inactive state. This process lasts only as long as the human inside SCP-057 is alive and can take days if necessary. All testing on animals, machines, or cadavers has proven futile. Only a living, breathing human being is able to initiate the “grinding” process upon entering SCP-057.
What does the public domain and copy-left like CC-BY-SA do for us? It gives us options. It gives us the ability to use others' ideas in ways that fit our unique circumstances.
That can only be a good thing.
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