All the kuffuffle around the rpg scene with the OGL that much of the DnD stuff of the last 20 years has been around got me thinking about miniature games.
With the ever growing use of 3D Printing and some of the best models I have ever seen being released as SLT files for printing, or sold on Esty by people who own 3D Printers.. it seems the miniture scene could soon be in the same kind of place the RPG scene is in. As in you can make your own setting and characters and just release a rule book. No miniatures of any kind. Then people can play it using minis of their choice, just printed out.
So like in the RPG there is a thriving scene of poeple making supplements. Which are just rules and setting. I think that the Miniature Wargame Scene could be poised to start doing the same thing, as the barrier... minis... is not as relevant.
For Example here is a few SLT dude I know :
For some reason, a lot of the quality STL makers sell on their patron. I am not sure why.
I recently bought a bunch of Papsikels minis for running the [family=56423]
Alien RPG[/family] by [company=22864]
Free League[/company]. They were actually great quality. Not as good as CMON or Monolith or P2 or GW or some other "factory" based min maker... but still very good and in many cases more imaginative and detailed as well. Papsikels among other things, make a SciFi range. It currently has Alien, Predator, Stargate and Terminator models.
I think the advent of 3d printing could change that. As it is now possible for a small time creator to make a supplement and just release stl files.
: TL;DR :Just to be clear... I was
NOT asking for miniature agnostic games. I was asking if there is a public OGL-style licensing agreement that exists in the wargaming community. Like OGL or ORC for the TTRPG space, or like the GPL or MIT programming licenses.
So the question is... Are there any miniature based wargames that have a kind of OGL style license. That allows a 3rd party designer to make their own games using the system, terminology, classes, etc etc. Not those things specifically, but the question is... Is there a OGL like license for any major miniature wargames.