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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5420501" data-attributes="member: 75712">Yes.  To be more accurate, I (at least) should really be saying "an E6-inspired, minimal rule set based on the Fantasy d20 SRD" or something.What: By my count there are two projects, with two goals. One is a baseline rule set that's easier for (some) people to work with for E6-style projects than the full 3.5e SRD.    This will be a set of rtfs, as well as an online reference roughly analogous to (but sadly not as slick as) d20srd.org. The other is Lord Xtheth's project, which, if I'm not mistaken, involves a website and ultimately an out-of-the-box d20 game based on the E6 idea.Why: Personally, my motivation isn't need, but convenience.  I just want a document that contains literally only 6 levels of 3.5e, or as close to that as possible, just so I don't see balors and timestop when I'm looking at the rules.   And a few others have expressed a desire to be able to point players to a doc that's simpler than the full SRD. Lord Xtheth's motivation is Lord Xtheth's. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  But I suspect there will be significant overlap between his goal and the other-- hopefully enough overlap that he can leverage his publication off whatever comes of this.Yes, that's true.  So there will be judgment calls in building this SRD-- but that's why it's being done out in the open.  But in the end it should be easy enough for anyone to download and tweak up or down in power as desired. And the full 20-level SRD is still out there, not to mention every other publication.Interesting, and I think I understand what you're getting at.  I admit we have been a little careless in throwing around the term E6 up to this point.  So to clarify, I completely agree that E6 is a neutral term, void of any implicit playstyle.  In a sentence, I'd define 3.5e E6 as "PCs stop levelling at 6th, then advance slowly after that by accumulating feats."   Yes, that does leave some aspects of the game wide open.I do believe that it's fair to say that that simply stripping the full SRD down to 6 PC levels doesn't result in a particular playstyle assumption like "ultra-low magic" or "grim and gritty".  It just results in a game with 6 PC levels.  Of course, by necessity, certain things-- like the monsters and magic items list and advancement variants-- will be judgment calls, but I hope the lines will end up being drawn fairly generically in the minimal "core" SRD, as they are in the full SRD.  And again, all the other resources are still there.Discussion on this has only just begun down in the Legacy forum, so chime in if something seems wrong.</blockquote>

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