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).

 

[Morrus]

Now we have an actual team on it, it will be much more complete and up to date than the last one (which was just me). One silver lining of recent events--it forced us to set aside a budget and hire people to do this!

 

[Alzrius]

Now we have an actual team on it, it will be much more complete and up to date than the last one (which was just me). One silver lining of recent events--it forced us to set aside a budget and hire people to do this!

Will that added content also be put under the OGL v1.0a now that WotC's backed off on it? Or is it going to be ORC (once it's released) and CC only from now on?

 

[Art Waring]

Awesome! Great News for the day thank you!

 

[Micah Sweet]

I was planning on putting out some A5e compatible content of my own, and lamenting the OGL crisis that would have proved a hindrance. Now that Level Up is completely safe I feel much better about trying my hand at publishing.

Now I just have to figure out what to write about...

 

[Ondath]

I would love to have a French version of the game...

Je préférerais ça aussi !

I'd also like to translate Level Up to Turkish, probably under CC since I'm not seeking any profits and just want the Turkish gaming scene to have access to this wonderful game.

In any case, this is wonderful news and I hope Level Up thrives!

 

[Ondath]

Also just to make sure I'm getting this right, it seems that the section under A5ESRD only has links for the Introduction PDF, and all of the other sections have their names, but no links. However, the blurb below says "The A5E System Reference Document (A5ESRD) by EN Publishing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License..." So should we assume that A5E SRD is already released under CC? Or is this only a statement of intent, and the A5ESRD will be released under CC only when all the links are there?

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Will that added content also be put under the OGL v1.0a now that WotC's backed off on it? Or is it going to be ORC (once it's released) and CC only from now on?

the linked page says they're considering ORC and CC.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Also just to make sure I'm getting this right, it seems that the section under A5ESRD only has links for the Introduction PDF, and all of the other sections have their names, but no links. However, the blurb below says "The A5E System Reference Document (A5ESRD) by EN Publishing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License..." So should we assume that A5E SRD is already released under CC? Or is this only a statement of intent, and the A5ESRD will be released under CC only when all the links are there?

They are releasing a new SRD, but the work hasn’t been finished yet.

 

[Ondath]

They are releasing a new SRD, but the work hasn’t been finished yet.

Alright! Since we saw another company immediately plopping their previously-OGL SRD to CC in one fell swoop, I wanted to make sure Morrus and co. didn't do the same.

 

[Vincent55]

Would be great if you could just down load a PDF,