D&D 5E Markdown version of the 5e SRD

[wizardoest]

> Care to favor us non-programmers with a "for dummies" explanation of what any of this means?

The source material of the SRD is a PDF. This makes it difficult to pull out text to use for players or authors of OGL content. Each person who wants to use it has to do their own conversions to editable text, some with more success than others.

This project is taking the source PDF and converting all of the text into Markdown. This is a text format that is easy to read and write. A lot of companies use it as the basis for documents, as there are a lot of converters out there that change it from markdown into Word, HTML, etc.

By doing this people will be able to download the project and have usable text at their fingertips. This means that players can copy and paste relevant abilities and publishers can use the text in their new products. It also means that folks could use it to build Web sites or tools.

 

[umbergerba]

D&D 5th Edition SRD in Markdown

FYI ... I have just completed re-writing a version of the D&D SRD5 (5th Edition SRD) in Markdown from the official PDF. This is NOT a simple conversion like many sites have done leaving all the conversion errors within, this is a complete paragraph-by-paragraph edit of the entire 5E SRD.

I have created this conversion specifically for those wishing to utilize the text in their own RPG publications per the OGL.

The documents are posted at ... www.ogl-srd5.com

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

For those who aren't interested in consuming Markdown, you can just refer to the web version at 5esrd.com. I find it more useful than the PDF for looking up e.g. the effects of conditions (http://www.5esrd.com/gamemastering/conditions) or certain monsters (http://www.5esrd.com/gamemastering/monsters-foes/monsters-alphabetical) when I'm away from my books.

 

[Jediking]

I find it more useful than the PDF for looking up e.g. the effects of conditions (http://www.5esrd.com/gamemastering/conditions).

I play on Roll20 and always have this 'quick reference' page open when the game is on, but if anyone uses a laptop (not sure about phone) it can save a tonne of time : https://crobi.github.io/dnd5e-quickref/preview/quickref.html. Click on the icons to expand with more details.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

I play on Roll20 and always have this 'quick reference' page open when the game is on, but if anyone uses a laptop (not sure about phone) it can save a tonne of time : https://crobi.github.io/dnd5e-quickref/preview/quickref.html. Click on the icons to expand with more details.

Cool. BTW it works fine on my Android phone.

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