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<blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 6329231" data-attributes="member: 83822">Hi all,We got to talking about SRD5 in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?356551-Necromancer-Games-3-5E-books-announced!/page7" target="_blank">the Necromancer Games thread</a> before someone pointed out that we were dragging that thread off topic. From what I can see so far, <a href="http://www.srd5.org/" target="_blank">SRD5</a> is a clone of part of Basic D&amp;D (with the rest in the works). Like other retroclones, it relies on the fact that game mechanics and names are not subject to copyright, while re-writing or taking from the System Reference Document any prose or other creative expression. Whether this is legal or not is something we were talking about in the Necromancer Games thread - it's also something we could talk about here (though I'm not sure that anyone knows the answer unless it's tested in the courts). SRD5 also tries to do some interesting things around Product Identity to get around one of the quirks/huge lurking problems of the OGL - that could be an interesting discussion, particularly since I'm hoping that if Wizards does go with the OGL they release a version 2 and treat Product Identity differently.SRD5 also encourages others to design 5E-compatible content, and will list those that are done under the SRD5 brand. Is anyone planning to take advantage of this? It would be interesting to hear from you if so!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sanglorian, post: 6329231, member: 83822"] Hi all, We got to talking about SRD5 in [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?356551-Necromancer-Games-3-5E-books-announced!/page7"]the Necromancer Games thread[/URL] before someone pointed out that we were dragging that thread off topic. From what I can see so far, [URL="http://www.srd5.org/"]SRD5[/URL] is a clone of part of Basic D&D (with the rest in the works). Like other retroclones, it relies on the fact that game mechanics and names are not subject to copyright, while re-writing or taking from the System Reference Document any prose or other creative expression. Whether this is legal or not is something we were talking about in the Necromancer Games thread - it's also something we could talk about here (though I'm not sure that anyone knows the answer unless it's tested in the courts). SRD5 also tries to do some interesting things around Product Identity to get around one of the quirks/huge lurking problems of the OGL - that could be an interesting discussion, particularly since I'm hoping that if Wizards does go with the OGL they release a version 2 and treat Product Identity differently. SRD5 also encourages others to design 5E-compatible content, and will list those that are done under the SRD5 brand. Is anyone planning to take advantage of this? It would be interesting to hear from you if so! [/QUOTE]

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