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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 9270792" data-attributes="member: 10531"><p>[Edit: The following was based on what apparently was my misunderstanding of what Parmandur meant by "loss leader", thanks to my unfamiliarity with DDB. The basic point that the SRD isn't particularly important for DDB going forward.]</p><p></p><p>The current SRD is the free content on D&D Beyond for 5th edition because that was the path of least resistance at the time; the SRD5 was released before D&D Beyond launched, and D&D Beyond was a third party anyway. But now, especially with D&D Beyond now being in-house, WotC can designate whatever subset of D&D 2024 they like as the "free" content for D&D Beyond, without having to decide what to put in the next SRD first.</p><p></p><p>Even if WotC explicitly intends to keep both the free stuff on DDB and the SRD aligned content-wise, it's incredibly easy for the actual release dates to be decoupled ("Look, sure, we need a careful review before we put anything out under CC-BY, but releasing it as free DDB content doesn't commit us to letting third parties publish based on it. So we'll just put it on DDB on September 17th to support the launch of the PHB, and wait for the reviews from the various departments to be completed before we release the new SRD.")</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="see, post: 9270792, member: 10531"] [Edit: The following was based on what apparently was my misunderstanding of what Parmandur meant by "loss leader", thanks to my unfamiliarity with DDB. The basic point that the SRD isn't particularly important for DDB going forward.] The current SRD is the free content on D&D Beyond for 5th edition because that was the path of least resistance at the time; the SRD5 was released before D&D Beyond launched, and D&D Beyond was a third party anyway. But now, especially with D&D Beyond now being in-house, WotC can designate whatever subset of D&D 2024 they like as the "free" content for D&D Beyond, without having to decide what to put in the next SRD first. Even if WotC explicitly intends to keep both the free stuff on DDB and the SRD aligned content-wise, it's incredibly easy for the actual release dates to be decoupled ("Look, sure, we need a careful review before we put anything out under CC-BY, but releasing it as free DDB content doesn't commit us to letting third parties publish based on it. So we'll just put it on DDB on September 17th to support the launch of the PHB, and wait for the reviews from the various departments to be completed before we release the new SRD.") [/QUOTE]
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