D&D SRD Monsters & Magic Product(s)?

[ehrbar]

Originally Posted by Anthony

The vast majority of SRD monsters wouldn't need any licensing because they're not original to D&D in the first place. An awful lot of them are already in GURPS. The same goes for most of the magic items.

Which is another way of saying "it would be a small, manageable project".

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by ehrbar

Which is another way of saying "it would be a small, manageable project".

It's more a case of "there's no rational reason to tie any of it to D&D". Just public a bestiary of classic monsters.

[sjmdw45]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's more a case of "there's no rational reason to tie any of it to D&D". Just public a bestiary of classic monsters.

The reason to tie it to D&D is to make it easier to consume the many, many D&D-adjacent adventure modules out there, most of which are quite bad, but some are amazingly good.

You know this though because we've discussed it before, and you called it "piracy."

[ehrbar]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's more a case of "there's no rational reason to tie any of it to D&D". Just public a bestiary of classic monsters.

1) A small product adapting those elements in the SRD that actually need licensing produces new options for DF/GURPS games that otherwise the publisher couldn't publish.

2) A small product adapting those elements in the SRD that need licensing makes it easier at the margin to attract people from the D&D audience, which then enlarges the market for a publisher to sell other DF/GURPS product.

But, sure, there's no rational reason for a publisher to consider the idea at all.