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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 998740" data-attributes="member: 2013">Already done...The funny thing about this post is that in my mind, the "fracturing" of 3e happened about the same time as the initial release of 3e.Some people use SSS products in their game.  Some don't.  Some people use WotC splats.  Some don't.  Some use Bastion Press stuff.  Some don't.  Some use Green Ronin's stuff.  Some don't.  Some use Monte's stuff.  Some don't.  Some use {insert d20 publisher here}.  Some don't.My point is, because of the huge mass of d20 products out there, I don't think it's proper to think of the community as a "3e" or a "3.5e" community any more.  I think you have to think of it as a d20 community.There are millions of different combinations of "allowed books" - and pretty much the only source that everyone agrees is definitive for fantasy role-playing d20 games is the WotC SRD.When d20 Modern was introduced - and it has considerable differences from d20 D&D - there was no schism.  Merely an understanding that there were slightly different rulesets involved, but that the d20 system at the core was the same.Now, the WotC SRD as it exists today contains some things that are counter-intuitive, awkward, or just plain silly (winner in "just plain silly" for me is the Craft rules as written, which lead to the conclusion that if you have two artisans of equal skill working on items with equal final costs, the one whose project is harder - as reflected in a higher DC to create - finishes FIRST - in other words, if it's twice as hard to hit the DC, it takes half as long to make).  I'm sure the 3.5 SRD will contain some silly things.  It will be a trivial matter - just as it is now - to excise the parts you as an individual find silly and replace them with something else - either rules published by another d20 company or house rules of your own design.As an example, IMC, I allow first-level wizards to choose either the Scribe Scroll Feat or the "Craft Nexus" feat from Mongoose's Quintessential Wizard as the Feat granted by Wiz1 (instead of forcing them to take Scribe Scroll per the SRD).  Does this "schism" me from 3e?  Hardly.Now, we will have two "definitive sources" that everyone agrees on - the 3.0 and 3.5 SRD.  And I think the only "schism" that it might create is when someone asks:"What do the rules say about X?"And he'll get two answers:"In 3e, the rules say Y.""In 3.5e, the rules say Z."And of course, just as he does now, he'll get..."{Product A} by {Company B} says C, which is better than {Y and/or Z} because D."*shrugs*Just as it has been for the past three years, it will not be an exercise in schism, but will instead be an exercise in "looking around" (including asking others) for the (a) the rule as found in the SRD version you are nominally using and/or (b) the rule that best meets your expectation for resolving a particular situation, regardless of publishing source (which you then adopt to your campaign).In other words, nothing changes. :b--The Sigil</blockquote>

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