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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9643732" data-attributes="member: 54840">I think WOTC put out the 5.2 SRD with the material it has for two reasons: 1. To get creators to write D&D 2024 material they could consider for inclusion into D&D Beyond (the barrier of which, right now, is earning about a million dollars in crowdfunding or having another huge audience they want to tap). 2. Because they promised to do so as part of rebuilding their relationship with 5e creators after the OGL fiasco. Their incentive is to not release anything more than what they released previously in the 5.1 SRD. They didn’t need to release anything more so they didn’t. People built all kinds of stuff off of the 5.1 SRD without needing anything more. What WOTC wants and what we can or can’t do are really separate things. For all we know they may decide to add bastion examples in later because they want other publishers to build off of them. But NOT including Bastion text in the 5.2 SRD isn’t, to me, evidence that they DON’T want anyone to touch bastions at all. All we know is that they didn’t include any bastion text. We don’t know why and the simplest explanation, to me, is that they just didn’t want to add that much more material in the CC.I don’t think that and I don’t know where I implied that I did. I think WOTC has other concerns than whether another publisher puts compatible bastion rules into a product as long as they don’t lift significant text out of the DMG to do so. My main point is that I don’t think the lack of bastion text in the 5.2 SRD limits creators. Almost every creator I’ve talked to would prefer their own home base system anyway (including myself — I have a very light weight one in City of Arches for example that I much prefer).</blockquote>

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