Luckily, there’s nothing to stop you from using both the Basic Rules and the SRD. The Basic Rules, being more pedagogical in nature, include things like an encounter difficulty calculator and other useful tidbits for running the game. Instructions for beginning DMs are almost totally absent from the SRD, which is focused on enumerating the pieces of IP included in the OGL. The SRD includes some things not in the Basic Rules (like the Steam Mephit monster type, for example) and vice versa. The SRD is very similar to the Basic Rules with a few differences. The official version can be found on Wizards’ site in PDF format. The SRD is an open source compendium of select D&D intellectual property third parties can freely use to create new D&D content under Wizards’ Open Gaming License or OGL. If you’d like to expand your options but you don’t want to pay for the privilege, you can look to the rules that Wizards has made available in its System Reference Document. The Basic Rules, however, contain only four character classes, four playable races, and a handful of spells and weapons.
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