Wizards SRD Updated

[Mindcrime]

www.wizards.com/d20/

All the magic item files. Looks like some links are broken, though.

Chris

 

[Leopold]

interesting..there's a random table in the SRD? I thought that was a big "no no"...


what's different than before from the magic items of this release to the previous ones??

 

[Lizard]

interesting..there's a random table in the SRD? I thought that was a big "no no"...



Since the SRD belongs to WOTC, they can do anything they want. But, iae, why would you think random tables were not part of the SRD?

what's different than before from the magic items of this release to the previous ones??

The previous releases -- weren't. Since August 2000, D20 publishers have been using an *unreleased* version of the SRD hosted at www.opengamingfoundation.org. This was used under a 'gentlemans agreement' with WOTC, saying, in effect, "We'll let you use this SRD as if it were open content, but you have to change your products if we change anything when it's finally released." This kind of caveat doesn't apply to truly open (released under the OGL) content; no limitations of that nature can be applied. So, anything released from the 'draft' SRD to the 'real' SRD is Big News, because it's one more piece of D&D that is forever free. Anything which exists only in the draft SRD can, in theory, be closed up again, but, once it's officially released, it can't be.

Monsters next, I hope....

 

[Knight Otu]

I think the big question is - have the item names changed in comparison to the draft version, such as cutting "celebrity" names, as WotC did with the spells?

Edit: Looking through the docs, I see the following changes:
Quaal's Feather tokens became Feather Tokens.

Murlynd's Spoon became Sustaining Spoon.

St Cuthbert's Mace became the Saint's Mace.

Edit2: Had a mistake here...

 

[2WS-Steve]

Celebrity names are out of this one too; we now have efficient quiver and apparatus of the crab.

WotC might have tried to keep closer to the original alphabetical order this time.

 

[jmucchiello]

what's different than before from the magic items of this release to the previous ones??

Apparatus of Kwalish -- Apparatus of the Crab (and it's listed in the D's for some reason).
Daern’s Instant Fortress -- Instant Fortress
Heward’s Handy Haversack -- Handy Haversack
Keoghtom’s Ointment -- Restorative Ointment
Murlynd’s Spoon -- Sustaining Spoon
Nolzur’s Marvelous Pigments -- Marvelous Pigments
Quaal’s Feather Token -- Feather Token
Quivor of Elhonna -- Efficient Quiver

Book of Exalted Deeds & Book of Vile Darkness -- Gone, not here.
Talisman of Zagy -- Talisman of Reluctant Wishes
The Mace of Cuthbert -- The Saint's Mace
The Shield of Prator -- The Shield of the Sun

The creating magic items link is broken. I was wondering if they tinkered with the costs.

 

[Leopold]

thanks for the update guys..i sent this over to the PCGen crew so we can be up2date on the latest stuff...any total list of what changed from old to new version?


(wish they include a changelog...)

 

[Nightfall]

Well at least it's not as bad as the spell stuff.

 

[vraad]

weapons and the SRD

I almost hate to ask, but I'll do it anyway.

Has anyone else noticed that certain weapons that seemed to be missing from the SRD in the equipment section are now in the treasure section? For example, the urgrosh was not in the equpment section, but it is in the treasure.

What, if anything does this mean as far as usability for the weapon? Can we, or can we not use it as open source?

Later

 

[MThibault]

I am not a lawyer, and I don't think that you need to be in this case.

It seems clear that WotC did not intend the Urgrosh (or the Gnome hammer) to be OGL'd. Whether or not it has inadvertently become OGL'd, I don't think that a publisher should use it. It is just bad form. They were kind enough to extend and honor a gentleperson's agreement for two years. It isn't "apple-polishing" to return the sentiment and continue acting like gentlepersons.

Cheers.