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Holy jesus.The WotC website has quietly deleted access to the 3e SRD. This was earlier in the context of switching over to the 5e SRD. It gains new significance because of the recent legal hostility by Hasbro against the D&D community.
The 3e SRD is significant because it grants the D&D community legal access to most of the D&D tradition, such as the player character Drow from the 3e Monster Manual, ultimately innovated by Gary Gygax. One can legally modify this content.
The 3e SRD is for the Open Gaming License 1.0a.
As ENWorlders are beginning to realize: get these vital legal documents now while one can.
The 3e SRD (System Reference Document 3.5) exists as a collection of documents, each to a section. They can be found as .rtf files or .html webpages. They are made available
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Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 System Reference Document (SRD) : Wizards of the Coast : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The System Reference Document is a comprehensive toolbox consisting of rules, races, classes, feats, skills, various systems, spells, magic items, and monsters...archive.org
in this file
here
here
System Reference Document v3.5
dndsrd.net
and here
SRD:System Reference Document - D&D Wiki
www.dandwiki.com
The Open Gaming License 1.0a itself can still be found here along with the 5e SRD (v5.1)
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Systems Reference Document | Dungeons & Dragons
Read the Systems Reference Document (SRD) with guidelines for publishing content under Creative Commons and the Open-Gaming License (OGL).dnd.wizards.com
in this document
That is... wow. WOW. WotC just doubling down on this, huh?