jeek
2010-05-08, 09:44 AM
Well, the System Reference Document seems to allow for anything in the SRD to be modified and redistributed, which in the past has allowed for such nifty sites as http://d20srd.org
It's lookling like this rather permissive license would allow for a printing of the SRD, effectively bringing most of the core 3.5 rules back into print, albeit with a few things missing, in particular experience tables, starting gold for nonpsionic classes, and a few creatures and spells designated as off-limits.
It also looks like everything in Unearthed Arcana, except for a couple of the bloodlines, would also be legal to include in such a product.
I started this task to generate an insanely-hyperlinked and better-arranged version of the SRD for my ebook reader, but if I can throw it into a book (or even different editions, such as no-epic/no-dviine) and make somebody else happy, all the better.
My current thinking is that this will need to be split up into three volumes. Volume I for races, classes, feats, skills, items and if they fit, spells. Volume II for monsters, volume III for actual rules (Adventuring section, the variants from UA that don't fall into the previous categories, etc).
Here's where I'm at so far: http://mrs.jeek.net/srd.pdf
I'm looking for thoughts/suggestions regarding a free PDF/print-on-demand book
I'm doing this project in lyx, the source is available at http://github.com/jeek/srd.lyx
It's lookling like this rather permissive license would allow for a printing of the SRD, effectively bringing most of the core 3.5 rules back into print, albeit with a few things missing, in particular experience tables, starting gold for nonpsionic classes, and a few creatures and spells designated as off-limits.
It also looks like everything in Unearthed Arcana, except for a couple of the bloodlines, would also be legal to include in such a product.
I started this task to generate an insanely-hyperlinked and better-arranged version of the SRD for my ebook reader, but if I can throw it into a book (or even different editions, such as no-epic/no-dviine) and make somebody else happy, all the better.
My current thinking is that this will need to be split up into three volumes. Volume I for races, classes, feats, skills, items and if they fit, spells. Volume II for monsters, volume III for actual rules (Adventuring section, the variants from UA that don't fall into the previous categories, etc).
Here's where I'm at so far: http://mrs.jeek.net/srd.pdf
I'm looking for thoughts/suggestions regarding a free PDF/print-on-demand book
I'm doing this project in lyx, the source is available at http://github.com/jeek/srd.lyx