D&D 5E So, 5e OGL

[Wicht]

Indeed. I don't think it's accurate to say they couldn't keep it updated. Rather, they chose not to add all that extra material to it. Which is a valid choice to make, after all.

Paizo manages to keep their SRD pretty close to current with their new releases, so I am skeptical that a monolith like WotC/Hasbro can't do it. Its more a problem of the will than it is a problem of means.

 

[Mark CMG]

Paizo manages to keep their SRD pretty close to current with their new releases, so I am skeptical that a monolith like WotC/Hasbro can't do it. Its more a problem of the will than it is a problem of means.

FWIW, I think Paizo has more employees dedicated to their RPG line than WotC does.

 

[Wicht]

FWIW, I think Paizo has more employees dedicated to their RPG line than WotC does.

i think you are right. Which is a real shame, but it is what it is. (ie. not a shame that Paizo is the size it is but that WotC has so squandered their opportunities to do more with RPGs).

 

[GMforPowergamers]

i think you are right. Which is a real shame, but it is what it is. (ie. not a shame that Paizo is the size it is but that WotC has so squandered their opportunities to do more with RPGs).

yea what a shame that in the last 15 years they have redefined the wheel 3 times, each time making a block buster new edition that out sold the one before it... and in the last 5-6 years piazo has taken an open source version of one of those 3 block busters, added some house rules and called it a new game... then played off nostalgia and there one great thing (adventures) to push more of the same...

if one of those companies squandered anything I can't believe it is WotC...

 

[Reynard]

yea what a shame that in the last 15 years they have redefined the wheel 3 times, each time making a block buster new edition that out sold the one before it... and in the last 5-6 years piazo has taken an open source version of one of those 3 block busters, added some house rules and called it a new game... then played off nostalgia and there one great thing (adventures) to push more of the same...

if one of those companies squandered anything I can't believe it is WotC...

We probably don't need to do this in this thread, do we?

 

[Wicht]

We probably don't need to do this in this thread, do we?

Sorry if I contributed to it. It was not my intention.

 

[Kramodlog]

We probably don't need to do this in this thread, do we?

Good question, is it a need?

 

[Nellisir]

They did have a few updates to the SRD beyond the core rules (and very little OGC released via the OGL in their books) but they did revise the full core SRD for 3.5 and released it concurrent with the 3.5 core books. They added Epic stuff and Psionics, for instance, to the 3.5E SRD.

True.

That said, it doesn't really go against my actual point, which was that creating a 5e SRD is just splitting and complicating things further. It's still not entirely clear to me what the line of division is between the Basic Rules and the "Core Rules". Are the Basic Rules now fixed? Would an SRD be updated and the Basic not? Would Basic be updated and an SRD not? If neither is, or both are, why have two?

 

[GMforPowergamers]

We probably don't need to do this in this thread, do we?

I'm fine with droping it if the others are...

 

[Mark CMG]

I'm fine with droping it if the others are...

You didn't say, "For now!" You can never discuss it again! Ha!