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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jadeite" data-source="post: 9338240" data-attributes="member: 14462">There are subclasses like Battlemaster that could easily be expanded on (like Tasha's did). Similar cases could be found for other types of content like feats or spells.I'd also like to state that Kobold Press' stance is preferable to the one I see from other 3PPs who now proudly declare that the only open content in their books is the stuff that they themselves took from the SRD. Makes me regret feeling bad for them last year.As for the intent behind SRDs, yes they were created as a whitelist for other publishers. Creating them is more work than simply adding a few sentences which parts of a book are open and which are closed, but they result in a much clearer situation for other publishers which parts are fair game. Still, the hypertexed SRD that was created out of the RTFs WotC provided for 3.5 was quite useful when preparing a game.I'm pretty sure that the PRD Paizo modeled after it was totally intended to serve as a reference for players as well as publishers. It "only" included the stuff from their PFRPG line (plus the Technology Manual). You also had the unofficial d20PFSRD which contained pretty much everything, sometimes with different names due to PI, plus some 3rd party stuff as well as Archives of Nethys which contained the stuff from the AP, CS, Adventure and PC not in the PRD.These days, the Pathfinder RPG no longer has a SRD, which is somewhat regrettable, considering the distinciton between Rulebooks and Setting Books is far more fuzzy in PF2 than it was in PF1.Another issue I have with Paizo's stance on Open Content is their reluctance to use stuff from other publishers. This was more prominent with PF1 which had far stronger third party support than PF2, but while Paizo had some 3.0 and 3.5 books that they loved to use content from (Advanced Bestiary, Tome of Fiends, Tome of Horrors), the time they used a supplement under the PFRPG compatibility license was in Reign of Winter were they used a creature from Kobold Press' Midgard Bestiary. They have used some RfC monsters for PF2, but that could also be due to the lack of other content.Ironically there were conspiracy theories that Paizo was pushing the ORC to steal other peoples stuff. In my opinion, getting your stuff included in a Paizo product (or in WotC's 3.5 Unearthed Arcana) brought attention to the book and publisher that material came from.I prefer cross pollination to the top to bottom situation we usually have like when Alluria Publishing released a book of underwater psionics for their Cerulean Seas setting using Dreamscarred Press' Psionic rules (based on the XPH).</blockquote>

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