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D&D SRD 5.2 coming to Creative Commons on 4/22/25

Started by RNGm, April 17, 2025, 02:42:30 PM

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RNGm

April 17, 2025, 02:42:30 PM Last Edit: April 17, 2025, 04:03:52 PM by RNGm
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1949-coming-april-22-publish-your-own-creations-using


Looks like they're coming out with the 5.5/2024-2025 edition SRD for third party creators next week and it's going into creative commons instead of a custom OGL.   I'll be curious to see what they include compared with the free rules and the official releases this time around.   Regardless, I see this as good for the community in the sense that it's extra legal bubblewrap protection for creators in the RPG space especially fantasy gaming even if you don't want to support 5.5e or WOTC for any one or more of the plentiful good reasons not to.  I have no plans to add to the 5.5 compatible ecosystem and there won't be any stipulation to actually make stuff that's compatible but it'll be nice to have something hackable piecemeal into what I actually want.

Ruprecht

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April 17, 2025, 06:56:26 PM
Would really prefer they release some older products into creative commons.
They can keep 5.2 entirely proprietary for all I care.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~Robert E. Howard

Venka

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April 17, 2025, 07:27:43 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on April 17, 2025, 06:56:26 PMWould really prefer they release some older products into creative commons.
They can keep 5.2 entirely proprietary for all I care.

While it's very important (and a straight up promise from when they broke on their "claim all work done industry-wide is ours" position for a vastly better one), we only have a promise that they will look into releasing older OGLed content under some better license.  Unlike the D&D 5.5 rules, which they actively promised to release.

RNGm

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April 17, 2025, 11:09:12 PM
True... but it's at least a start.  Self serving admittedly with 5 1/2e as it's the active edition but it's still a start and a promise kept.  I honestly don't expect them to keep going but at least (for now) the OGL for 3.x is still active.

Valatar

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April 18, 2025, 09:15:37 PM
Yeah, don't care.  I would be somewhat excited to see the 3/4e stuff being fully released, but not this version.

JeremyR

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Today at 12:42:44 AM
I'd be much happier if they released it under the OGL. The CC is terrible for the job the OGL was meant to do, encourage sharing of game material. Instead, CC products basically close everything off
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