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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7158025" data-attributes="member: 6778044">No, no, no, DMsGuild isn't trying to discourage. It's just not supporting it. And it doesn't need to.You say they make home-brew difficult. I think that it's never been easier. Like the d20 SRD, they are providing a free document for all to use any way they want through the OGL. That is specifically for homebrew. Do what you want with it, and publish it where you want - including for money.In addition, they've gone a step farther. Want to write for the Forgotten Realms? Now you can. You can use any previously published material (not just the SRD) or write new material for the Realms. After CoS was released they added Ravenloft to the acceptable settings. Convert old things, steal old things, write new things. Now, in addition to all of the home-brew you could do with the OGL, you can use their IP for your home-brew products too. They've made home-brew and 3rd party options available and easier than ever before and they've opened up their IP for anybody to use. That's pretty amazing, actually.Does it take some work? Of course. Especially if you're somebody that doesn't like parts of the core rules themselves, you'll need to make some changes.Of course, I wonder how much you'll need to change. You're the DM, right? Do your players object to the mere presence of text that regarding polytheism in their PHB? If not, then it's really only compiling what rules you need available. You probably don't need the rules for playing a cleric yourself, so you can excise that portion from your SRD.I suggested making your own and publishing it on the DMsGuild because you were talking about wanting a setting neutral PHB. I think that would qualify for their guidelines. You also indicated that there were other people that were hounding WotC about making it "monotheistic friendly" which indicates to me that there are others who share your concerns.Well, WotC has given explicit permission to do that. Somebody just has to do it. You said you'd love to play 5e, but can't using their book. If you want to excise something that is a core part of the game (and in my opinion, has been since the beginning), then you'll have to do some work, or have somebody do it for you. I didn't say it wouldn't take work, but the reality is, unless you are changing the cleric class entirely, removing what's objectionable to you in the SRD is an hour long project, if that based on the number of things I found in my prior searches.Here's a word version of the OGL/SRD. This might be the 5.0 version, but WotC has a list of changes made to the 5.1 version.<a href="https://github.com/gguillotte/mdsrd5/blob/master/mdsrd5.docx" target="_blank">https://github.com/gguillotte/mdsrd5/blob/master/mdsrd5.docx</a>The project isn't maintained anymore, so grab it while you can.</blockquote>

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