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<blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 8873108" data-attributes="member: 7034611"><p>They cannot square that circle beyond limiting the 1.0a OGC to what is already licensed under it.</p><p></p><p>To me there are two cases 1) you want to create your own RPG, 2) you want to create something for 5e / OneD&D (adventure, race, (sub)class, monsters, ...).</p><p></p><p>In the latter case you basically need nothing from the SRD other than maybe reference some names that are in it (monsters, spells, items, ...). That list will not be all that different in the One D&D SRD, so to me there is almost no case where you would actually need something from the new SRD that is not also in the 5e one.</p><p></p><p>If you want to create your own RPG the question is how close to D&D you want to stay, i.e. how much you copy over and how much you rewrite / add / remove. Here there might be something in the One D&D SRD that you might be interested in but cannot copy over, because of OGL 1.1.</p><p>That leaves you with coming up with a similar mechanic in your own words and go with that. Probably not too much of a problem in most cases either.</p><p></p><p>The one case where it might be is if you want to create 'Open5.5' as an exact (or as close to identical as legally possible) One D&D clone. That might be a risky approach even under 1.1</p><p></p><p>So all in all, I see almost no case where using the new SRD is important for a 3PP. All things being equal (i.e. no carrot, and the new SRD is not one), I expect 1.1 to be pretty much dead on arrival.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mamba, post: 8873108, member: 7034611"] They cannot square that circle beyond limiting the 1.0a OGC to what is already licensed under it. To me there are two cases 1) you want to create your own RPG, 2) you want to create something for 5e / OneD&D (adventure, race, (sub)class, monsters, ...). In the latter case you basically need nothing from the SRD other than maybe reference some names that are in it (monsters, spells, items, ...). That list will not be all that different in the One D&D SRD, so to me there is almost no case where you would actually need something from the new SRD that is not also in the 5e one. If you want to create your own RPG the question is how close to D&D you want to stay, i.e. how much you copy over and how much you rewrite / add / remove. Here there might be something in the One D&D SRD that you might be interested in but cannot copy over, because of OGL 1.1. That leaves you with coming up with a similar mechanic in your own words and go with that. Probably not too much of a problem in most cases either. The one case where it might be is if you want to create 'Open5.5' as an exact (or as close to identical as legally possible) One D&D clone. That might be a risky approach even under 1.1 So all in all, I see almost no case where using the new SRD is important for a 3PP. All things being equal (i.e. no carrot, and the new SRD is not one), I expect 1.1 to be pretty much dead on arrival. [/QUOTE]
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