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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 6797938" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>I thought on this.</p><p></p><p>The SRD is very stingy on PC options: one subrace per race, one subclass per class, one feat, one background. This is intentional. Its there to prevent another Pathfinder game from springing up out of the near-complete game or a Pocket SRD to steal sales from the PHB. 3.5's SRD gave away the whole game; this time they are not giving every SRD owner the whole PHB. If someone WANTS to make a competing PHB, they would have to create their own additional subraces, subclasses, feats, backgrounds, etc. </p><p></p><p>The Basic Rules =/= OGL rules. They are a stripped down version of the PHB and now serve a very different purpose from the SRD. WotC can give you additional backgrounds and subraces, but just because they are free doesn't make them Open Content. Anyone who would want to build a Spinoff game (like Pathfinder) couldn't include Wood elf as a subrace, even if they are in the Basic PDF. </p><p></p><p>A lot of people will probably mix these two products up since they are both rules for 5e given out free, but they are not designed to be compatible nor fill the same purpose. WotC intentionally neutered the PC options this go around to avoid cannibalizing PHB sales; I doubt we'll see much more content be added to it. </p><p></p><p>Except Eldritch Blast; I can't see that oversight not be fixed only because of the Invocations mentioned...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 6797938, member: 7635"] I thought on this. The SRD is very stingy on PC options: one subrace per race, one subclass per class, one feat, one background. This is intentional. Its there to prevent another Pathfinder game from springing up out of the near-complete game or a Pocket SRD to steal sales from the PHB. 3.5's SRD gave away the whole game; this time they are not giving every SRD owner the whole PHB. If someone WANTS to make a competing PHB, they would have to create their own additional subraces, subclasses, feats, backgrounds, etc. The Basic Rules =/= OGL rules. They are a stripped down version of the PHB and now serve a very different purpose from the SRD. WotC can give you additional backgrounds and subraces, but just because they are free doesn't make them Open Content. Anyone who would want to build a Spinoff game (like Pathfinder) couldn't include Wood elf as a subrace, even if they are in the Basic PDF. A lot of people will probably mix these two products up since they are both rules for 5e given out free, but they are not designed to be compatible nor fill the same purpose. WotC intentionally neutered the PC options this go around to avoid cannibalizing PHB sales; I doubt we'll see much more content be added to it. Except Eldritch Blast; I can't see that oversight not be fixed only because of the Invocations mentioned... [/QUOTE]
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