D&D (2024) WotC Announces April 22 Release For 2024 System Reference Documents

The System Reference Document 5.2--the tool which helps developers create third-party content using the Dungeons & Dragons core rules engine--will be released under the Creative Commons license on April 22nd.

Additionally, Wizards of the Coast will publish a Conversion Guide for updating game content from the 2014 edition to the 2024 edition. This guide will arrive at a later date.

The Free Rules document on D&D Beyond will also be updated with new D&D Beyond Basic Rules (2024).

The older 5.1 SRD, which is based on the 2014 edition of D&D, will also remain available under both Creative Commons and the Open Game License (OGL).

More information will be available on April 22nd, when the new SRD is released.

A copy of each System Reference Document is stored independently at A5ESRD.com, which includes the 5.1 SRD, the revised 3.5 SRD, and other System Reference Documents (including the enormous A5E SRD).

 

[Reynard]

I could have swore that back when they announced the SRDs being moved to CC they were going to release all previous editions with their own SRDs to it as well.

I am almost certain they only said they would release "the previous SRDs" under CC -- which means 3.0 and 3.5 (but I imagine only 3.5 will get that treatment, if at any).

 

[LaTia J]

I am almost certain they only said they would release "the previous SRDs" under CC -- which means 3.0 and 3.5 (but I imagine only 3.5 will get that treatment, if at any).

From the first Community Update we put out, we said we would review them. Future Community Updates gave a somewhat more defined timeline (after Core Rulebook and SRD 5.2 releases), but that's always been what we've said.

 

[dave2008]

I could have swore that back when they announced the SRDs being moved to CC they were going to release all previous editions with their own SRDs to it as well.

No, they said they will look into it. That was all they said. They did strongly hint they would do 3/3.5e SRD since that relatively easy to do.

 

[darjr]

From the first Community Update we put out, we said we would review them. Future Community Updates gave a somewhat more defined timeline (after Core Rulebook and SRD 5.2 releases), but that's always been what we've said.

Thank you for that clarification.

 

[Reynard]

From the first Community Update we put out, we said we would review them. Future Community Updates gave a somewhat more defined timeline (after Core Rulebook and SRD 5.2 releases), but that's always been what we've said.

No, they said they will look into it. That was all they said. They did strongly hint they would do 3/3.5e SRD since that relatively easy to do.

Thank you for that clarification.

Well, that "clarification" doesn't make me feel good.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Well, that "clarification" doesn't make me feel good.

It sounds like they're clarifying that they never said they'd actually do it (which certainly seems true), which is often the sort of clarification you make when you're expecting pushback on future actions.

 

[darjr]

OSE and OSRIC don’t seem to be holding back. Neither Shadowdark or many others.

I want to see it too but I’m not sure it’s entirely necessary.

 

[J.Quondam]

As long as they just don't resurrect talk of revoking the OGL again. Not sure what it would entail, but just some sort of explicit assurances regarding the OGL would be nice, especially for the sake of retaining the "openness" of orphaned OGC, and for the sake of active rpg communities using non-D&D systems released under OGL (eg, iirc, Traveller SRD and offshoots).

 

[Morrus]

As long as they just don't resurrect talk of revoking the OGL again.

They can’t revoke the OGL They couldn’t then, and they can’t now.

 

[Scribe]

From the first Community Update we put out, we said we would review them. Future Community Updates gave a somewhat more defined timeline (after Core Rulebook and SRD 5.2 releases), but that's always been what we've said.