Is All Still Quiet on the SRD Front?

[The Little Raven]

And just to refresh my memory or for the sake of my own education, when 3e was about to release, when did the 3e SRD came out? 6 months before?

Officially? A year after release. But there was the whole "gentlemen's agreement" that Dancey made with Necromancer and other companies, with unfinished versions of the rules, which lead to the first wave of products being slightly (or more than slightly in some cases) wrong when it came to the rules.

 

[kennew142]

How many players purchased the PHB from WotC in order to participate in a campaign being run using 3rd party setting? That was the whole idea of the SRD....even if it was giving business to competitors, the players still needed to buy the PHB.

Banshee

I also play in some 3rd party campaign worlds (most notably Arcanis, by Paradigm Concepts), but I seriously doubt that the number of players who purchased the PHB specifically in order to play in such a world are very few. Most of the people I know came to the 3rd party products from D&D - not vice versa.

 

[Ranger REG]

Officially? A year after release. But there was the whole "gentlemen's agreement" that Dancey made with Necromancer and other companies, with unfinished versions of the rules, which lead to the first wave of products being slightly (or more than slightly in some cases) wrong when it came to the rules.

Okay. Unofficially, I do recall a Beta SRD that is used under the Gentlemen's Agreement. They're the ones Dancey puts up but not yet approved by their Legal staff.

 

[Kevin Brennan]

Okay. Unofficially, I do recall a Beta SRD that is used under the Gentlemen's Agreement. They're the ones Dancey puts up but not yet approved by their Legal staff.

Yes, but it didn't get released that long before the game itself. I think it was only made available a month or two in advance.

 

[Rechan]

Yes, but it didn't get released that long before the game itself. I think it was only made available a month or two in advance.

So wait. Publishers only got the SRD a month or two in advance to 3e?

 

[Ranger REG]

Yes, but it didn't get released that long before the game itself. I think it was only made available a month or two in advance.

To the publishers or to the general public?

I'm trying to recall the exact month Ryan posted up the beta SRD on the Opengamingfoundation.org website (recently defunct this year).

 

[The Little Raven]

To the publishers or to the general public?

The publishers had very little time to prepare products for 3e's launch. Since some of them need much more lead-in time for products, this poses a problem. Victims of their own success, in a way. Hopefully, it will all work out in the end.

I'm trying to recall the exact month Ryan posted up the beta SRD on the Opengamingfoundation.org website (recently defunct this year).

It was right around release of the core books, if not just after it.

 

[Zoatebix]

It was soon enough for the first Creature Collection to come out before the Monster Manual.

 

[frankthedm]

To the publishers or to the general public?

I'm trying to recall the exact month Ryan posted up the beta SRD on the Opengamingfoundation.org website (recently defunct this year).

Defunct? 3.0 srd seems to be still up...

http://opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html

 

[Rechan]

To the publishers or to the general public?.

To the publishers.