D&D 5E So, 5e OGL

[mips42]

While I'm glad that the OGL and SRD are out, the SRD, in its current pdf-only form, is not incredibly useful.
I hope they update it into a more useful form.

 

[Hussar]

This has some interesting implications for all those Kickstarter things that came out in the past year. Kinda wish I had waited a bit before jumping on the Peimeval Thule bandwagon. It would have meant that some of the phrasing wouldn't be so clunky.

Meh. Aw well. Good stuff going forward.

 

[darjr]

In a way the clunky wording kinda adds to the other worldly feel.

 

[RedShirtNo5.1]

Short story, it was a compromise.

Long story: Maybe in my memoir or over drinks at GenCon but I'm pretty sure I'm still have an NDA.

Thanks for answering Scott. The NDA wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Umbran]

While I'm glad that the OGL and SRD are out, the SRD, in its current pdf-only form, is not incredibly useful.

It is not intended to be useful to the individual player of the game. It is a reference for writers and publishers, not players.

 

[darjr]

[MENTION=6746242]mips42[/MENTION] Also the fantastic thing about the SRD is folks can repurposed it.

http://www.5esrd.com

 

[CapnZapp]

It is not intended to be useful to the individual player of the game. It is a reference for writers and publishers, not players.

The d20 SRD was/is incredibly useful to me as a DM.

I wager the most used way to use a SRD is as a hyperlinked modern rules reference and copyable text source.

The possibility to make new stuff is second to me.

 

[CapnZapp]

[MENTION=6746242]mips42[/MENTION] Also the fantastic thing about the SRD is folks can repurposed it.

http://www.5esrd.com

There you go

 

[Remathilis]

The d20 SRD was/is incredibly useful to me as a DM.

I wager the most used way to use a SRD is as a hyperlinked modern rules reference and copyable text source.

The possibility to make new stuff is second to me.

True, but I think WotC is trying to avoid competing PHB sources. The 3.5 SRD was competition to the core books, the 5e one isn't.

 

[Mark CMG]

True, but I think WotC is trying to avoid competing PHB sources. The 3.5 SRD was competition to the core books, the 5e one isn't.

That's fiction, apparently. When they were hashing out the 4E licensing plans, Scott Rouse spoke to a number of publishers by phone including myself and I asked point blank if my SRD 3.5 Revised was problematic or helping cause the shift away from OGL support for D&D and I was told that it was not.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/17705/Aid-SRD-35-Revised-Full-Bundle?it=1