About Freedom Fantasies

Freedom Fantasies is an Open-Source Tabletop Roleplaying Game designed and written by Peter Rees.

Players are empowered to tell Fantastical Stories in a wide range of settings and genres using this game.

There are minimal barriers to entry: the rules are provided for free through this website and are designed to be easy to use by Players.

Freedom Fantasies simplifies and builds upon the mechanics of Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition and incorporate elements from many other systems to provide a more narrative driven game.

It provides an experience better tailored to what Players of d20 fantasy games are looking for: a simple, intuitive system which is able to balance the varying needs for narrative and simulation driven mechanics of different settings and genres.

It also provides Players a way to “Escape the Dungeon” that is the Dungeons & Dragons ecosystem and begin exploring other fantastic roleplaying games with a system which is familiar and accessible.

Freedom Fantasies was conceived of following the realization that the Tabletop Roleplaying hobby has been largely monopolized by a single game (Dungeons and Dragons).

The numerous actions of the company in possession of that game’s IP in 2023 made the dangers of that status quo abundantly clear.

Freedom Fantasies was made with the belief that Roleplaying Games is an aural tradition common throughout the world, and should be made available to everyone.

For Free.

There is no catch.

Inspirations for this game are numerous, but I would like to make special mention of the following games:

• Tabletop RPGs
  • Dungeons and Dragons (3.5e, 4e, 5e 2014 and 5e 2024)
  • Powered by the Apocalypse
  • Forged in the Dark
  • Fabula Ultima
  • G.U.R.P.S
  • Pathfinder Second Edition (and it’s Remaster)
  • The RPG currently known as MCDM RPG
  • DC20
  • Tales of the Valiant
  • Vagabond
  • Vaesen
• Video Games
  • Fallout
  • Fire Emblem
  • Pokémon
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Final Fantasy
• Other Media
  • Dimension 20
  • Critical Role
  • TTRPG YouTube

Freedom Fantasies is for everyone, both players and third party content creators.

It is licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 license.

This means you are free to use the rules and content of Freedom Fantasies for both commercial and non-commercial usage, provided appropriate attribution is given.

It is entirely fair and reasonable for other parties in the TTRPG space to produce high-quality content for this game and expect payment for it, provided they open about the source of the rules they use.

Freedom Fantasies is and always will be a tool that aims to support the health of the TTRPG hobby.

To provide attribution to Freedom Fantasies, include the following statement in your work:

This work includes material taken from “Freedom Fantasies” by Peter Rees. “Freedom Fantasies” is Licensed under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Peter is an inventor with a doctorate in Laser Physics and a love of game design and storytelling.

He lives with his wife and son in the original lands of Arthurian myths and legends: Wales. The aural tradition of storytelling in Welsh history inspires Peter’s philosophy behind Freedom Fantasies, seeing it as a tradition much, much older than it’s modern iterations would lead us to believe.

Peter is no stranger to the many accessibility issues posed by the tabletop roleplay gaming hobby. Cost, complexity of rules and a lack of a local community all posed hurdles to his engagement in the game at a young age. His strong desire to remove any and all barriers to entry to the hobby underpins the design and release of Freedom Fantasies.

Tabletop Roleplaying Gaming is a Storytelling Tradition that should be made available to everyone, and it’s identity should not be defined by a single, corporately owned, entity.