# D&D 4e System Reference Document

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**Created:** [July 2, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-4e-system-reference-document/455108 "2008-07-02T22:25:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-4e-system-reference-document/455108/1 "2008-07-02T22:25:04Z")

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With D&D 3 and 3.5, the OGL System Reference Document contained, basically, all the information you needed to play a game.

But when I looked up the SRD for 4e, I only found [this](http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/SRD.pdf), which, as far as I can tell, is just a list of the tables from the PH and DMG that you’re allowed to use for designing your own RPG system. It does _not_ tell what’s _in_ those tables.

Is this all there is to be found online? To read how the system works, will I have to actually go the the bookstore and sit down with the actual books? ☹😛

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-4e-system-reference-document/455108/2 "2008-07-04T21:24:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Frylock]  
With D&D 3 and 3.5, the OGL System Reference Document contained, basically, all the information you needed to play a game.

But when I looked up the SRD for 4e, I only found [this](http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/SRD.pdf), which, as far as I can tell, is just a list of the tables from the PH and DMG that you’re allowed to use for designing your own RPG system. It does _not_ tell what’s _in_ those tables.

Is this all there is to be found online? To read how the system works, will I have to actually go the the bookstore and sit down with the actual books? ☹😛

-FrL-  
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There are some useful links [here](http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/06/fan-creations-e.html), including a link to a very ncie step-by-step guideline of how-to-beat-things-up.