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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8870401" data-attributes="member: 2209">For 3.0 and 3.5 it was to their credit. The SRD allowed you to have the core rules free. I used the srd as my go to rules for 3.0 and 3.5 (I had the 3.0 PH in print and read it but for a while in the 3.0 era I was only doing online games and I never reached for my PH during a game or character creation or advancement, it was all srd referencing). I ran 3.0 and 3.5 games using only the SRD. (5e was enough for publishers to put out stuff but not enough 5e SRD material for players to make the PH range of characters).This was a successful move on WotC's part in the 3e era as to my purchasing patterns. I bought a number of sourcebooks and modules from WotC even though I never bought a DMG in the 3e era. Even though I spent more on OGL books than WotC ones, this was mostly a shift from non-D&D books I had been purchasing in the past so it was useful in keeping me more in the D&D ecosystem and running D&D games and buying the occasional WotC product.Same for Paizo when WotC shifted to 4e with no free SRD and Paizo Pathfinder started up with a free SRD. I used the free Pathfinder SRD and switched to Pathfinder and started buying Paizo and other OGL pathfinder stuff.</blockquote>