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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6307340" data-attributes="member: 2525">Basic D&D is intended as a GAME.  It describes how to play the game, how to create campaigns, and the basic races and classes for your characters to interact in that campaign the DM creates.  It's a product intended for DMs and Players.The SRD is intended as a legal document to instruct developers what content is open, and what content is closed, and how to access the open content in developing their content.  It's a list of rules, without telling you how to use those rules, and without the flavor of those rules, and the expository text necessary for a new player to learn how to really play the game.  It's like an API.  Or, in some ways, it's like the code behind software, without a graphic user interface to actually use the code.  The SRD is a product intended for content developers.I understand for years Players have used the SRD as a means to access the rules and play the game - but this is ultimately sort of a kloogey method of doing it, and it's mostly done because they already understand how to play the game, how to create campaigns, how rules interact, and the flavor of those rules.  It was never the purpose of the SRD to be used by players to play the game - that was always more of a side effect of it.  The primary purpose was for content developers.So there is absolutely a difference between an SRD, and a Basic game (or even the Advanced game).  They serve different purposes and different audiences, though in a kloogey way the different audiences can use either for either purpose if they really want to.  But that doesn't take away from the differing purposes of each.</blockquote>

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