In a word: standardization.
It's nice to imagine a world where material actually says "1e AD&D compatible" instead of the alphabet soup of OSR, OSE, OSRIC, ORC, or OPQRSTUV.
D&D General Any movement/update on Creative Commons SRD for previous editions?
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In a word: standardization.
It's nice to imagine a world where material actually says "1e AD&D compatible" instead of the alphabet soup of OSR, OSE, OSRIC, ORC, or OPQRSTUV.
LaTia J
D&D Community Manager
4th edition is also included, but based on what i've seen in previous discussions on the topic, 3.0 and 3.5 feel like what the community would like to see next. My being exclusionary doesn't reflect what we're thinking internally; apologies if it seemed that way!...But not 4E?
Remathilis
Legend
I don't think there is much hope for any TSR era stuff getting done. 4e is slightly more likely, but I really think they aren't going to create whole new SRDs for AD&D or Basic.
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
That, and the ability to use TSR-like formatting, stat blocks, etc. without worrying about what lines are being crossed.
It always seems to me that the OSR games that hew close to any version of TSR-era D&D might be on thin legal ice, as they're using the d20 OGL which technically only applies to 3e. I'd prefer to see that ice get a lot thicker.
What's stopping you? It's perfectly legal to put that on a product. How do you think all those 3rd party iPhone cables and cases advertise themselves?
There's no such thing as a "d20 OGL". There is only the OGL v1.0a, released back in 2000, and used for many different games, including 3E, 5E, Pathfinder, Fate, and dozen of other game systems.That, and the ability to use TSR-like formatting, stat blocks, etc. without worrying about what lines are being crossed.
It always seems to me that the OSR games that hew close to any version of TSR-era D&D might be on thin legal ice, as they're using the d20 OGL which technically only applies to 3e. I'd prefer to see that ice get a lot thicker.
Voadam
Legend
Really?!!
I had given up hope on 4e happening.
3e and 3.5 have their OGL SRDs, and Oe, Basic, and AD&D have retroclones so there is a ton of stuff made for them and it is pretty easy for more stuff to be made, 4e is the one without that and so would be nicest to get out there.
4e is so specific on keyword interactions that recreating core stuff for usage under different names makes things pretty unrecognizable from the attempts at retroclones that I have seen. Goodman did some nice OGL adventures early in the 4e cycle with wholly new monsters throughout but not a lot tried to follow that model (a couple from EN Publishing, Expeditious Retreat Press, Adamant, etc.).
LaTia J
D&D Community Manager
it's definitely a different beast, as I understand it, but given that we did say "all", I assume it's included, but there might be more work involved. i'm speculating along with y'all on this one.
dave2008
Legend
That is fine to be excited about, but that was never really in the cards. They only ever discussed looking at older editions and implied 3e would be easy so why not.
dave2008
Legend
They would have to pretty much create a whole new SRD for 4e too, unless it can piggy-back on the 3e or 5e one. The 4e SRD is in a very different, and much less usable, format than the 3e and 5e SRD.
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