On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Brad Thompson wrote:
> The SRD can certainly be used that way, but it is source material, not a
> game in and of itself. You should use the SRD as a start point and then
> fill in all the things you think it is missing or that you think should be
> changed.
>
Yes this is what I plan on doing. That's why I said I'd like to
make my own game out of it.
> I appreciate the 'clean room'
> approach you are trying to take, but using the SRD without reading the PHB
> is likely to be problematic, because you will probably come up with
> different interpretations of certain rules than your players expect.
>
Well, if people want to play D&D or D20 then those things will be
there. If they want to play an all open system that is similar they can
use what I'm working on. I'm sure other people will do similar things.
"'Cause, you know, he's just so _cute_ and sad and do a few thousand
corpses really matter when the guy loves you?" - Sarah T. on Spike
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