Ginny Di interviews WotC's Kyle Brink

Continuing the D&D executive producer's interview tour, gaming influencer Ginny Di asks a WotC's Kyle Brink about the OGL and other things.

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[Retreater]

But they did for the SRD 5.1.

Granted they were in panic at the time.

Yes, but they didn't have to do anything for that but hit a button. To do 4e they would have to create an SRD from scratch. That would take a lot of staff hours.
In the words of Johnny Lawrence from Cobra Kai, all they had to do with SRD 5.1 was to "send it to the Internet."

 

[Jer]

I was more keying I'm on the fact that the question was about previous editions in general and he answered specifically about 3.x.

3.x is the one that is currently OGL and so I expect that the discussions are all about making sure folks who publish using the 3.x SRD are covered/placated whatever your POV on what they're doing is.

I doubt 4e is even on their minds. They've memory holed it as hard as anyone else has.

 

[Haplo781]

Yes, but they didn't have to do anything for that but hit a button. To do 4e they would have to create an SRD from scratch. That would take a lot of staff hours.
In the words of Johnny Lawrence from Cobra Kai, all they had to do with SRD 5.1 was to "send it to the Internet."

Literally just publishing the extant 4e SRD, useless as it is, under a CC license would be a huge improvement.

 

[Alzrius]

There is an existing SRD. It's essentially useless, but it exists.

Which SRD are you referring to (3.0? 3.5? d20 Modern?) and how is it useless?

EDIT: Ah, you meant the 4E SRD. It's easy to forget that thing even exists (and that there are two of them).

 

[Haplo781]

For reference, so I hopefully don't have to keep saying it:

It exists. It's 85 pages. It's mostly worthless.

But "mostly worthless" is a step up from the status quo.

 

[Alzrius]

For reference, so I hopefully don't have to keep saying it:

That's the revised 4E SRD. For those who are interested, here's the original (shorter, at sixty-five pages) and the revised version (longer, at eighty-five pages).

 

[Scribe]

Before this thread devolves into a 4e (and its virtues/sins) thread, is there anything new coming out of the interview?

 

[Malmuria]

"Homebrew is essential to the game. We know that. It will always be supported in any version of the game."

...immediately followed by him saying hombrewing in 3d is complicated and time consuming and will require purchased assets. So it will supported in a "you can certainly try" sort of way. Which is fine, people can just not use the vtt, but the contrast was funny to me

 

[Malmuria]

Before this thread devolves into a 4e (and its virtues/sins) thread, is there anything new coming out of the interview?

Not really, but GD provides her gloss on his answers which is interesting (and makes for a shorter video)

 

[darjr]

Yes, folks can we keep it more focused? For a bit anyway.

I know I’m a culprit too.