Editing Open gaming (section)

{{short description|Mode of role-playing gaming}}
{{More citations needed|date=January 2023}}
'''Open gaming''' is a movement within the [[tabletop role-playing game]] (RPG) industry with superficial similarities to the [[open source software]] movement.<ref name="Dancey">{{cite web | last = Dancey | first = Ryan|author-link=Ryan Dancey| title = The Most Dangerous Column in Gaming| work = Interview with Ryan Dancey| publisher = Wizards of the Coast| date = 2002-02-28| url = http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/md/md20020228e| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020404235238/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/md/md20020228e| url-status = dead| archive-date = April 4, 2002| format = Interview | access-date = 2008-02-26}}</ref> The key aspect is that copyright holders license their works under [[public copyright licenses]] that permit others to make copies or create derivative works of the game.

A number of role-playing game publishers have joined the open gaming movement, largely as a result of the release of the original [[System Reference Document]] (SRD) by [[Wizards of the Coast]], which consisted of the core rules of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 3rd edition. Open gaming has also been popular among small press role-playing game and supplement authors.