The rules of the game, and the way they are implemented are as good, or better, than most commercial games. One of the most heartening examples of this is a discussion among developers of one scenario that many (including myself) found very hard and annoying, ending with the comment "I was the one who thought up this level, and I can't even stand it anymore".
People are free to develop their own scenarios for the game, as well as make suggestions about new units or concepts. After spending more time with the game and the Wesnoth community, I found that the ethic of free software makes a big impact on gameplay. When I originally wrote this writeup, I said that the fact that the game was GPL was incidental to the game play. Recently, a team of international developers has put together what may be the first great GPL game, and what also may join the Turn Based Strategy pantheon along with Civilization, Heroes of Might and Magic and Masters of Orion. But very few people install Linux for the great games that have been developed for it. It's stable and it's free, and it has an entire social ethos behind it.
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