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</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks hlist"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">Part of a series on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle"><a href="Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">Role-playing games</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading">

Types</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Tabletop_role-playing_game" title="Tabletop role-playing game">Tabletop</a></li>

<li><a href="Live_action_role-playing_game" title="Live action role-playing game">Live action</a></li>

<li><a href="Role-playing_video_game" title="Role-playing video game">Video game</a></li>

<li><a href="Actual_play" title="Actual play">Actual play</a></li>

<li><a href="Online_text-based_role-playing_game" title="Online text-based role-playing game">Text-based</a></li></ul></td>

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Movements & Traditions</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="History_of_role-playing_games" title="History of role-playing games">History</a></li>

<li>Indie

<ul><li><a href="Indie_role-playing_game" title="Indie role-playing game">Tabletop</a></li>

<li><a href="Indie_game" title="Indie game">Video game</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="LitRPG" title="LitRPG">Literary</a></li>

<li><a href="Game_studies" title="Game studies">Ludology</a>

<ul><li><a href="GNS_theory" title="GNS theory">GNS theory</a></li>

<li><a href="Role-playing_game_theory" title="Role-playing game theory">RPG theories</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Region

<ul><li><a href="Tabletop_role-playing_games_in_Japan" title="Tabletop role-playing games in Japan">Japan</a></li>

<li><a href="Nordic_LARP" title="Nordic LARP">Nordic LARP</a></li>

<li><a href="Polish_role-playing_games" title="Polish role-playing games">Poland</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Jubensha" title="Jubensha">Jubensha</a></li></ul></td>

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Parts of Games</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Attribute_(role-playing_games)" title="Attribute (role-playing games)">Attribute</a></li>

<li><a href="Campaign_setting" title="Campaign setting">Campaign setting</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="Gamemaster" title="Gamemaster">Gamemaster</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="List_of_campaign_settings" title="List of campaign settings">Campaign settings</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_live_action_role-playing_groups" title="List of live action role-playing groups">LARP groups</a></li>

<li>Production

<ul><li><a href="List_of_role-playing_game_artists" title="List of role-playing game artists">Artists</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_role-playing_game_designers" title="List of role-playing game designers">Designers</a></li>

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<li><a href="List_of_role-playing_games" class="mw-redirect" title="List of role-playing games">Tabletop games</a></li>

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<p>In the <a href="Open_gaming" title="Open gaming">open gaming</a> movement, a <b>System Reference Document</b> (<b>SRD</b>) is a reference for a <a href="Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing game</a>'s mechanics licensed under a <a href="Public_copyright_license" title="Public copyright license">public copyright license</a> to allow other publishers to make material compatible with that game. In 2000, <a href="Wizards_of_the_Coast" title="Wizards of the Coast">Wizards of the Coast</a> pioneered this by releasing a SRD for <a href="Dungeons_%26_Dragons_3rd_edition" class="mw-redirect" title="Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition"><i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> 3rd edition</a> under their <a href="Open_Game_License" title="Open Game License">Open Game License</a> (OGL).

</p><p><i><a href="Dicebreaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Dicebreaker">Dicebreaker</a></i> described a SRD as a "handy guide on how to use, hack and implement an existing game system for your own purposes".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wizards_of_the_Coast">Wizards of the Coast</h3></div>

<p>The first SRD was published in 2000 by <a href="Wizards_of_the_Coast" title="Wizards of the Coast">Wizards of the Coast</a> (WotC) and is based on the third edition of <i><a href="Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i>; it was released under their <a href="Open_Game_License" title="Open Game License">Open Game License</a> (OGL).<sup id="cite_ref-:11_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:38_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:38-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:39_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:39-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was revised following the release of <i>D&D</i> version 3.5 in 2003. That SRD allowed for third-party publishers to freely produce material compatible with <i>D&D</i>. It also formed the basis for independent role-playing games from other publishers, such as <i><a href="Mutants_%26_Masterminds" title="Mutants & Masterminds">Mutants & Masterminds</a></i> and the <i><a href="Pathfinder_Roleplaying_Game" title="Pathfinder Roleplaying Game">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</a></i>, among others.

</p><p>The <a href="D%26D_4E" class="mw-redirect" title="D&D 4E">4th edition</a> of <i>D&D</i>, released in 2008, was not licensed under the OGL, but under the more restrictive <a href="Game_System_License" title="Game System License">Game System License</a>. Subsequently, the 4e System Reference Document is quite different. Instead of the full texts of the OGL-licensed rules, the 4e SRD presents only lists of concepts and tables from the 4e rulebooks that may be used in a compatible product.<sup id="cite_ref-GSL_text_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GSL_text-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-escapist_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-escapist-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The <a href="D%26D_5e" class="mw-redirect" title="D&D 5e">5th edition</a> of <i>D&D</i> was released in 2014. A new OGL-licensed SRD based on 5th edition was released in January 2016, and updated to version 5.1 in May 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2023, Wizards of the Coast announced that the full <i>D&D</i> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SRD5.1-CCBY4.0License.pdf" class="extiw external" title="c:File:SRD5.1-CCBY4.0License.pdf">System Reference Document 5.1</a> (SRD 5.1) would be released under the <a href="CC-BY-4.0" class="mw-redirect" title="CC-BY-4.0">CC-BY-4.0</a> license.<sup id="cite_ref-:35_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:35-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:34_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:34-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:332_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:332-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_publishers">Other publishers</h3></div>

<p>Some other game systems, such as <i><a href="Fate_(role-playing_game_system)" title="Fate (role-playing game system)">FATE</a></i>, the <a href="Mongoose_Publishing" title="Mongoose Publishing">Mongoose Publishing</a> editions of <i><a href="RuneQuest" title="RuneQuest">RuneQuest</a></i>, <i><a href="Mongoose_Traveller" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongoose Traveller">Traveller</a></i>, and <i><a href="Zweih%C3%A4nder_(role-playing_game)" title="Zweihänder (role-playing game)">Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG</a></i> have also released their own mechanics under distinct OGL-licensed "System Reference Documents".

</p><p>Chase Carter, for <i><a href="Polygon_(website)" title="Polygon (website)">Polygon</a></i> in 2022, highlighted that the <a href="Indie_role-playing_game" title="Indie role-playing game">indie game design</a> scene "has moved toward extremely permissible SRDs and the open plains of collaboration. [...] When SRDs do pop up in indie games, they read more as political statements about art and creation under capitalism".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carter commented that "independent designers are looking toward a future divested from the weight of D&D. [...] SRDs, or whatever their next form might look like, may provide fledgling artists waystones through an open field instead of fence posts around private property".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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