System Reference Documents

3d6 · Jun 30, 2003

The 18th of July.

CapnZapp · Jul 5, 2003

If I were you, I'd download a copy of the 3.0 SRD before then...

*If* it disappears (=gets replaced by the 3.5 SRD), perhaps ENWorld could host it, as an attachment to a sticky thread...? *If* it disappears, mind you.

Maitre Du Donjon · Jul 6, 2003

Not a bad idea

And if anyone need it, i have an even older copy of the SRD, in which the monsters that have now disappeared are still in it. Of course, such material was never distributed as open gaming content, so I don't know if there were be any problems associated with having it posted somewhere.

Maitre D

Planesdragon · Jul 10, 2003

Answers from the FGA

Maitre Du Donjon said:
Not a bad idea

And if anyone need it, i have an even older copy of the SRD, in which the monsters that have now disappeared are still in it. Of course, such material was never distributed as open gaming content, so I don't know if there were be any problems associated with having it posted somewhere.

Actually, the pre-release SRD is not Open Gaming Content. We were only allowed to use it if we agreed to update our work to the final SRD when it was released.

The old SRD with the removed monsters is as much "OGC Contraband" as the monsters in the Fiend Folio.

Tabarnak Smokeblower · Jul 16, 2003

Will 3.0 SRD become "OGL Contraband" once 3.5 SRD is released?

TS

Planesdragon · Jul 16, 2003

Nope.

Tabarnak Smokeblower said:
Will 3.0 SRD become "OGL Contraband" once 3.5 SRD is released?

Nope. Not without far more effort in legal fees and lawyer bills than Hasbro would ever make from the recision.

Ryan Dancy modeled the OGL off of the GPL, which is a license designed to ensure that software remains "Free." (free-as-in-speech, not necessarily free-as-in-beer.)

Unless a court with authority makes the unlikely ruling that copyleft licenses such as the OGL and the GPL are illegal, or the D20STL is modified to require the most current version of the SRD, Wizards of the Coast (and Hasbro) can't do a thing to make a properly released work "OGL Contraband."

The draft SRD is such simply because it was never released under the OGL, but rather made avaliable through the "Gentleperson's ageement."

Kae'Yoss · Jul 18, 2003

SRD 3.5 won't come before July 24. Damn.

Someone · Jul 21, 2003

The revised SRD is available!

Darkness · Jul 21, 2003

Someone said:
The revised SRD is available!

Here's a link.

/me hopes that Russ will put a link to the 3.5 SRD into his original post of this thread (or maybe start a new thread to replace this one).