Blog (A5E) EN Publishing Launches Advanced 5E SRD

We at EN Publishing have just launched our new System Reference Document project. Taking the rules of our popular Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition tabletop RPG, we are creating a fully-featured complete 5E SRD which will be available under a variety of open and permissive licenses, including licenses which are non-revocable.

Advanced 5E System Reference Document

A5eSRD.com

We have already begun work with a crack team led by Paul Hughes. As we have already written and published the game itself, we are already well on our way.

We don’t know what will happen in the future regarding the OGL. WotC has just released its SRD into Creative Commons. The A5ESRD will be significantly larger and more complete, including feats, archetypes, and more.

(Note: this is a new SRD. The original LUSRD remains published on the official Level Up website and will remain available under the OGL for as long as that license exists; we do not believe the OGL v1.0a can be de-authorised, and we welcome the news that WotC has abandoned its attempt to do so).

 

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Getting A5E to a CC-BY-4.0 license will assure compatibility with the WotC 5E SRD under CC-BY-4.0. Getting the OGL1.0a updated as well would keep compatibility with older material.

In the future, will ENworld Publishing release (A5E) products under one or both licenses?

And will ORC still be a thing when WotC already pulled the pin on the grenade and went full CC-BY-4.0? What would an ORC license even add at this point?

We don’t know what ORC will add at this point, but the OGL adds things (share-a-like, product identity) that aren’t covered in the CC-BY. So I am guessing ORC cover at least those as well.