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Message: <blockquote data-quote="herald" data-source="post: 1369328" data-attributes="member: 1112">When I asked if you would be making your own game, my tongue was in cheek.I am under the opinion that when most people (gamers) say "THE SRD" they mean WOTC's SRD, since it does, indeed belong to them. It's the source of game rules that they provide to developers (and anyone else) to make their own games or game related material vis a vis the OGL or the D20 Licence. Should another company state that they have thier own SRD, I kinda feel that their not being straight up. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that that thier braking any rules, and I certainly don't think that they should be called on the carpet or anything like the sort. I just feel that saying I have my own SRD and and it's called... well, that just muddies the waters to a point. IMHO, any dirivative document of the SRD is just a body of rules. I can perfectly understand that creating that body of rules and adding to it, and thenm putting it into a format that is pleasing to read is worth getting paid for, but is anyone really going to use that 3rd party SRD to publish a new game? (with the exception of the actual publisher, maybe?) The SRD should be for the most part unobtrusive, we know it's there, but we shouldn't be that focused on it. We play D&D, not SRD. It's like asking someone what kind of car they drive and they answer a V-tech V8. I think it would be better to move away from the gimmicky "custom SRD" names and move to other names that reflect a more true use of the material. They're rule books.</blockquote>

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