Is All Still Quiet on the SRD Front?

[Ranger REG]

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.

Hopefully they'll take the time to READ the material. I don't want to see another Foundation superhero RPG.

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

Which was a good move, though not necessarily the beta period and the Gentlemen's Agreement.

 

[The Little Raven]

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

http://opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html

Yup.

Also, for REG's sake...

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Dunno when it started hosting the SRD exactly, though.

 

[Ranger REG]

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

http://opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html

I thought Dancey was going to shut down the website this year. He has already transfered the OGF-L and OGF-d20-L discussion lists over to EN World.

 

[Rechan]

So, correct me if I'm wrong.

The 3e publishers got the SRD, or at least the general rules, within a month or two of the Core Books being released.

Wouldn't that make all this a little, uh, pre-mature, since we're arguing about this six months before launch? Especially with regards to leveling accusations on WotC's motivations for not coughing up the rules yet?

 

[Ranger REG]

Wouldn't that make all this a little, uh, pre-mature, since we're arguing about this six months before launch?

I agree, but some think it's better to get them sooner.

 

[Carnivorous_Bean]

So, correct me if I'm wrong.

The 3e publishers got the SRD, or at least the general rules, within a month or two of the Core Books being released.

Wouldn't that make all this a little, uh, pre-mature, since we're arguing about this six months before launch? Especially with regards to leveling accusations on WotC's motivations for not coughing up the rules yet?

True, but at that point, the publishers weren't all making AD&D 2nd edition books. It's different this time around, because nearly everyone is in a rules-system boat which WotC just torpedoed, accidentally or not, and is sinking. Last time it was everyone heading for the bandwagon -- this time, it's rats off a sinking ship.

 

[Rechan]

I agree, but some think it's better to get them sooner.

I'm pretty sure that "Sooner is better than later" is pretty obvious.

But even if the 3rd party people got them 1-2 months before launch, that would be no better than they were distributed for 3e.

 

[mxyzplk]

To add one small actual fact to the discussion, as an original Living Greyhawk Triad we recieved galleys of the PHB (99% accurate to what was published) and the DMG (75% complete) on 2 Feb 2000. I'm not sure when publishers got what, but it was likely before that.

Green Ronin published "Death in Freeport" at GenCon when 3e launched and there wasn't much wrong with its rules content at all...

Ernest

 

[GVDammerung]

Which in turn could backfire in WotC's face. Many players (myself included) buy a lot of 3rd party products......I also by WotC product, but in many cases, I don't find WotC's products *good* enough to justify purchasing, in the absence of using it with 3rd party products etc.

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

Case in point - me. I did not adopt 3x because of anything Wotc published - not even the PH. I saw some very cool 3rd party stuff and said "Now, I want in." Only after that did I pick up the Wotc material.

 

[Pramas]

Any publishers have anything from WotC yet?

Nope. And no one from WotC has talked to me about the OGL/d20 since GenCon. At this point I don't expect to hear anything until after the holidays.