D&D Basic Rules Website - A Handy Browseable Resource!

A decade ago, we had online System Reference Documents. Paizo has its online Pathfinder Reference Document. And now there's the brand new official D&D Basic Rules website! That's right - the 5th Edition basic rules online for free in an easily navigable web format. (Thanks to Jester Canuck for spotting it!) That's not the PDF you already have - it's browseable online resource.

I don't know how long it's been there; I assume it's brand new. You can find it right here! And it's a marvellous thing, indeed! It even appears to have a nifty mobile device format, making the D&D rules accessible at a moment's notice just like we've become accustomed to with other games.

(This post originally by Jester Canuck; promoted to article and edited by Morrus).
 

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And yammer, I shall, my friend. Yammer, I shall.


Wait- "Yammer?" :o


;)

Hey, I can't be expected to provide reasonable vocabulary while watching 6 kids (don't ask). You already saw what I did with that whole 'insidious' thing.

On the other hand, I do believe 'yammer' might be an alternate word for 'internet messageboard':

Yammer: loud and sustained or repetitive noise. "the yammer of their animated conversation"

Oops.

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On the same note, as for whether it's 'too late' or whether there's some insidious group inside the company trying to hobble any license, I couldn't say.
I heard that the whole OGL is actually the result of some some "insidious" group inside the company trying to "protect D&D from the suits" even if it's to the detriment of their own employer. They wanted to "protect D&D for the gamers" and convinced WotC's decision makers that it all was just to increase sales, while it really only was to make sure that WotC could never fully take back what's once in the OGL

We saw a D20 flood, but how much it really increased WotC's profits (before Pathfinder, mind you, if we include Pathfinder it was a big loss and something that Wotc surely never wants to see repeated) is questionable.

How many of the alternate D20 systems were just played with their respective books and the SRD and never sold a PHB?

How many people, like me for example, never bought the 3.5 PHB since the 3.0 PHB + SRD was enough to have all neccesary changes?
 
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I heard that the whole OGL is actually the result of some some "insidious" group inside the company trying to "protect D&D from the suits" even if it's to the detriment of their own employer. They wanted to "protect D&D for the gamers" and convinced WotC's decision makers that it all was just to increase sales, while it really only was to make sure that WotC could never fully take back what's once in the OGL

"Insidious group"? That's a bit harsh. It was pushed by Ryan Dancey, and one of its goals was to preserve the system permanently, yes. There's no secrecy about it - all this has been discussed openly at length by those involved.
 

"Insidious group"? That's a bit harsh. It was pushed by Ryan Dancey, and one of its goals was to preserve the system permanently, yes. There's no secrecy about it - all this has been discussed openly at length by those involved.
If the goal of preserving the system runs contrary to what's in the best interested of your employer, I would say that it's not what would be expected from the allegiance of an employee towards his employer.
 

If the goal of preserving the system runs contrary to what's in the best interested of your employer, I would say that it's not what would be expected from the allegiance of an employee towards his employer.

Dancey was VP of the company. His employer was Peter Adkison., who was on board with the concept. And that was just one of several goals. I think you might be imagining an environment that never existed. I encourage you to read and watch some of the many interviews about the subject over the years. It's all in the open.
 

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