overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Awesome. What about the older editions as mentioned?
D&D General So what about the SRDs?
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LaTia J
D&D Community Manager
I’ll point you here to our SRD announcement last May. Our goal was always to get on the other side of the core rulebook releases and SRD 5.2 before we looked at the older ones.
That hasn’t changed as far as I know (it’s not my bailiwick), but I do keep asking because I know how important it is to y’all, and we said we would.
Obviously, this is not on you, but it feels very much like the protests of how much work WotC must do to get the SRDs ready is a ruse or obfuscation.
LaTia J
D&D Community Manager
That’s fair. I will say as one of the people who has been working on getting it ready for y’all, there are a not insignificant number of moving parts and things change almost daily sometimes.
I saw an IP lawyer on Reddit say they could get it done in a weekend and I had a good laugh about that.
Spellslinging Sellsword
Adventurer
The 3rd edition OGL SRD to Creative Commons should be fast to do though. I think if that gets released people will be more patient on the other editions since they don't already have an SRD.
SpellObjectEnthusiast
Adventurer
I don't doubt this isn't an insignificant inventment of time/resources to do.
That doesn't change that the longer WotC dawdles on completing it, the more they burn away any of the community goodwill the promises created in the first place.
That doesn't change that the longer WotC dawdles on completing it, the more they burn away any of the community goodwill the promises created in the first place.
In their defence, we get the same complaints about our (much larger!) SRDs. It’s a LOT of work, diverting resources and people from things that pay the bills and keep the lights on. While it is important, I always feel that patience is the best stance when waiting for what is—essentially—free stuff. They’ll get there, just like we will, but I think it’s fair to understand that it can’t be the #1 business priority.
Especially right now! While I’m sure WotC isn’t in as existential a crisis as we smaller publishers are during tariffgate it’s certainly going to be an issue.
Also. You don’t need the SRD to make compatible stuff. The old ones will do just fine, unless your use case for it is to literally just reproduce it. So it’s more a gesture than an actual practical necessity.
I was referring more to the 3.5 SRD, giving folks a true safe harbor for works dependent on that.
Could you explain to me the use case of making a compatible product where the current offerings would not suffice? (Again, other than the use case of simply reproducing it, which I recognise that some character builder or VTT implantations might need to do).
I'm not sure I understand the question. Assuming that one wants to make a 3.5 compatible product -- or is currently still selling 3.5 compatible prooducts based on the OGL -- the uncertainty of the OGL remains. The point of putting the 5.1 SRD into CC was to eliminate that uncertainty, no? So I am not sure why it would be different for the 3.5 SRD.
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