Investigation: which other games have open content Quest Board could support, and what each would cost #1201

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opened 2026-10-17 04:21:07 +00:00 by claude-bot · 0 comments

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Only Pathfinder 2e and D&D 5e have a stat schema (webapp/backend/app/game_systems/), a character sheet and an identified open source (ORC; CC-BY-4.0 SRD). A Foundry compendium for any other system imports, but only as text records with the raw system block kept in extra. Owner, 17 Oct 2026: look into other games, as a separate piece from 4.6.0.

Questions to answer

For each candidate system:

Licence: what the open material is (ORC, CC-BY, OGL 1.0a, a community or fan licence), what it permits (copying, adapting, redistribution, commercial hosting, which matters for #642), what notice and attribution it needs, and what is reserved (trademarks, setting names, art).
Source: where clean, structured data exists (a Foundry system's packs, an official SRD in a usable format, a community database), its shape, and whether it tags licence per record.
What support would mean in Quest Board, in tiers:
1. reference lookup only (a pack, no schema);
2. stat blocks (a stat schema in game_systems/ and a Foundry map);
3. a character sheet (the largest piece: see lane 11 and docs/design/lane11-build-contract.md).
Effort and demand: a rough size for each tier, and whether anyone at the owner's tables plays it or a hosted customer plausibly would.

Candidates to check include Starfinder 2e (believed to be ORC), and systems with CC-BY or similar reference documents. Confirm each one's licence from the source rather than from memory: nothing goes in on an unverified licence.

Deliverable

A short report under docs/design/ with a table (system, licence, source, tiers, effort, demand) and a recommendation of which, if any, to take on and in what order. The owner decides from it. No code.

## Why Only Pathfinder 2e and D&D 5e have a stat schema (`webapp/backend/app/game_systems/`), a character sheet and an identified open source (ORC; CC-BY-4.0 SRD). A Foundry compendium for any other system imports, but only as text records with the raw `system` block kept in `extra`. Owner, 17 Oct 2026: look into other games, as a separate piece from 4.6.0. ## Questions to answer For each candidate system: - **Licence:** what the open material is (ORC, CC-BY, OGL 1.0a, a community or fan licence), what it permits (copying, adapting, redistribution, commercial hosting, which matters for #642), what notice and attribution it needs, and what is reserved (trademarks, setting names, art). - **Source:** where clean, structured data exists (a Foundry system's packs, an official SRD in a usable format, a community database), its shape, and whether it tags licence per record. - **What support would mean in Quest Board,** in tiers: 1. reference lookup only (a pack, no schema); 2. stat blocks (a stat schema in `game_systems/` and a Foundry map); 3. a character sheet (the largest piece: see lane 11 and `docs/design/lane11-build-contract.md`). - **Effort and demand:** a rough size for each tier, and whether anyone at the owner's tables plays it or a hosted customer plausibly would. Candidates to check include Starfinder 2e (believed to be ORC), and systems with CC-BY or similar reference documents. Confirm each one's licence from the source rather than from memory: nothing goes in on an unverified licence. ## Deliverable A short report under `docs/design/` with a table (system, licence, source, tiers, effort, demand) and a recommendation of which, if any, to take on and in what order. The owner decides from it. No code.

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