Individual Control of SRD Elements

​I think that it's time the ability to change SRD content separately is given to the user base, as a decent amount of the rule systems and mechanics of the classes and monsters has now been set into place, it's getting more and more necessary for us to be able to properly customize the content that comes with the SRD package.

​As it stands, you only have the choice between taking the SRD content wholesale (the entire thing) or never taking any of the material, and both are problematic in their own ways. The ability to cleanly separate what you want to take from the SRD and what you don't want to take is, I think, critical for so many different usage cases of this application. Also, the ability to change the SRD content on a case-by-case basis is important, as the system not allowing that is extremely problematic in terms of how much time it consumes and how many different problems it leads to.

​For example, in my own game I want to simply make my own versions of the main 12 classes. However, because it isn't allowed for us to change any of the existing classes, I need to make separate versions of these with separate names. That's 12 different classes. I need to change the existing class of every single NPC in the game to these newly created ones.

And on top of that, once the AI makes new NPCs, there is a very probable chance that it will assign the older classes to these NPCs rather than the ones that I've created. Even though I don't want that to happen, I just want the game to use the classes that I think are appropriate. You know, I want it to use my version of the Wizard, not the one in the SRD, and I want this to be the case for every single wizard in the game, not just the player characters. But it's very probable that the AI will simply assign the old Wizard class because I can't remove it.

And this goes for the entirety of the game system. The same thing goes for spells; for example, I can't make my own version of the spell Fireball and remove the original one, so the AI is stuck choosing between one or the other.

I think it is at this point necessary to start working on this soon.