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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9612617" data-attributes="member: 54840">I hear you and I'm a huge fan of open licenses for game systems but it doesn't bother me in this circumstance because we have the core SRDs already that we need to make just about anything (as Kelsey did with Shadowdark and Gavin Norman did with Old School Essentials). You don't need a Shadowdark SRD to make your own lightweight version of 5e. You can do that with the 5.1 SRD or A5e's SRD. If you want to make something Shadowdark compatible, you have the Shadowdark license itself which is pretty open.I'm not really sure what product can't be made because there isn't a Shadowdark SRD.Another thing I think about is that no game company owes us an SRD under an open license. They choose to or they don't. That's up to them. I think, given the longevity of D&D overall, it's a huge boon to the hobby that all the core d20 RPG mechanics are basically in the open now based on the 5.1 SRD (there are still arguments to be had about whether we needed it at all but that's another topic).I'll give you one where I am sort of miffed though.I'm a huge fan of Kobold Press but I don't like how they use the ORC license for Tales of the Valiant. They built it off of the 5.1 SRD in the CC and then locked their own content behind ORC. Thus, they got to hold material back, like about half of their subclasses, by not releasing them under Black Flag but anyone who writes material based off of the Black Flag SRD must release all of their mechanics under ORC because of the viral nature of ORC. So they got the benefit of a big open Creative Commons SRD but do not offer that same open benefit downstream.That also dosen't matter too much because 5e material is also, generally, Tales of the Valiant compatible. So, again, I can use the core 5.1 SRD or A5e SRD (as I did with City of Arches) and know my material is compatible with Tales of the Valiant.</blockquote>

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