Retrocloning or duplicating D&D from the materials WotC is releasing under Creative Commons

[Hriston]

Yep - and this is something that likely doesn't matter to like 90% of the current player base so I doubt it's an empty promise.

But it is fairly vague and non-committal, so it isn't much of a "promise" really.

 

[Haplo781]

But it is fairly vague and non-committal, so it isn't much of a "promise" really.

Yeah - we'll see. I'm not expecting much, maybe "all previous SRDs are now covered by the same CC-BY license, except the following elements, which will be made available under the OGL at a future date" and then listing all the same kinds of things that are being excised from the 5.1 SRD.

4e would actually be dead simple to do this with as its SRD is already bare-bones.

 

[mamba]

In principle, yes, but the CC license would make it significantly easier and cheaper to avoid infringement

not any easier or cheaper than now, and for considerably less content

 

[Haplo781]

not any easier or cheaper than now, and for considerably less content

Depends on which edition you're talking about.

 

[JEB]

4e would actually be dead simple to do this with as its SRD is already bare-bones.

Yeah, so bare-bones it doesn't actually include any of the 4E rules. (It's basically a glorified index.) Providing any version of the actual 4E rules would require a new SRD.

 

[Haplo781]

Yeah, so bare-bones it doesn't actually include any of the 4E rules. (It's basically a glorified index.) Providing any version of the actual 4E rules would require a new SRD.

Rules Compendium. All the rules, none of the content. Literally just cut pp. 38-46 and call it a day.