Creating an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Compendium 2e

In light of the OGL issues etc, I've looked into alternatives such as second edition.  Unfortunately, Roll20 does not have AD&D second edition in compendium form.  In a created game  of my own, I've started the process of adding all the rules etc to organized handouts etc from PDF source materials.  I was wondering if Roll20 can go into my game and use this to create a compendium to share with others on Roll20?  A labor of love, I would like to recreate all the books if Roll20 would be interested in contacting me.  I would love to see this come back to life and be an option.

Hi ROTTO! To my knowledge, this would require licensing, or careful avoidance of copyright infringement on the level of creating a brand new game. Hense the OSR movement. AD&D never had an SRD and was never covered under any OGL-type license. It's perfectly fine for your home game, but nothing Ro20 coulld distribute.

Thanks Keithcurtis.  Maybe they could at some point get licensing....Fantasy Grounds has it already.

I did not know that. Interesting. I'm not sure what the environment is over at WotC/Hasbro right now, but it looks like FG did it a few years back.

Literally came here "Hoping" for 2nd Ed, looks like its not here :-(  Side note, Rotto if you have any open spots....  :-)

DevArmaya said: Literally came here "Hoping" for 2nd Ed, looks like its not here :-(  Side note, Rotto if you have any open spots....  :-) I'll let you know!

ROTTO and DevArmaya, I recommend you Create a game table in roll20 and select the more-advanced (non-"Simple") of the 2 available Character Sheets for 2nd Edition. The sheet currently maintained by Peter B. It's an extremely robust and powerful character sheet containing many hundreds of Compendium-like facts and rules mechanics, such as most of the spells, and a convenient format to input anything you find missing that your game needs. It even has support for Ravenloft, Birthright, Spelljammer, in various sections such as Psionics and Currency and Weapons.  In my time playing 2e on Roll20, i can't find a reason why the Roll20-styled Compendium feature would be necessary. It would be nice (especially if you could buy the Monster Manual, and also the VTT conversions of the official old modules like Fantasy Grounds has done with licensing and staff to convert it properly). The game of 2E is more-than-playable on Roll20. It is extremely powerful, and is my favorite system on this site. Happy adventuring! There are additional discussions about 2nd Edition on Roll20: There is a Forum thread for it (find, read, and follow Peter B's thread under Character Sheets subforum) There is a wiki page for it in Roll20's community wiki. There is a Discord ongoing chat discussion server for VTT 2e that I operate myself, and Peter B is on there taking feedback, ask me if you seek the invite link. 

Gold said: ROTTO and DevArmaya, I recommend you Create a game table in roll20 and select the more-advanced (non-"Simple") of the 2 available Character Sheets for 2nd Edition. The sheet currently maintained by Peter B. It's an extremely robust and powerful character sheet containing many hundreds of Compendium-like facts and rules mechanics, such as most of the spells, and a convenient format to input anything you find missing that your game needs. It even has support for Ravenloft, Birthright, Spelljammer, in various sections such as Psionics and Currency and Weapons.  In my time playing 2e on Roll20, i can't find a reason why the Roll20-styled Compendium feature would be necessary. It would be nice (especially if you could buy the Monster Manual, and also the VTT conversions of the official old modules like Fantasy Grounds has done with licensing and staff to convert it properly). The game of 2E is more-than-playable on Roll20. It is extremely powerful, and is my favorite system on this site. Happy adventuring! There are additional discussions about 2nd Edition on Roll20: There is a Forum thread for it (find, read, and follow Peter B's thread under Character Sheets subforum) There is a wiki page for it in Roll20's community wiki. There is a Discord ongoing chat discussion server for VTT 2e that I operate myself, and Peter B is on there taking feedback, ask me if you seek the invite link.  Thanks Gold.  I am definitely using the character sheet with all the source materials.  I wanted players to have easy access to all of the source materials available for 2e with all the art etc available in handouts.  I'm probably being particular for sure.  Thanks for the tips.

Upload the 2E PDF's that you have. Roll20 added PDF support a few months ago. The PDF becomes a Handout (with PDF pagination/zoom/clickable features). The art is there. As DM you put the PDF-Handout as Permission: All Players. By the way I'm not trying to downtalk the idea of Custom Compendium, or Roll20 getting AD&D licensing from the rightsholder. However I am firmly standing for the playability and strong features of Roll20 aside from Compendium-ness, albeit short of official licensed conversions.  ROTTO said: Thanks Gold.  I am definitely using the character sheet with all the source materials.  I wanted players to have easy access to all of the source materials available for 2e with all the art etc available in handouts.  I'm probably being particular for sure.  Thanks for the tips.

Gold said: Upload the 2E PDF's that you have. Roll20 added PDF support a few months ago. The PDF becomes a Handout (with PDF pagination/zoom/clickable features). The art is there. As DM you put the PDF-Handout as Permission: All Players. By the way I'm not trying to downtalk the idea of Custom Compendium, or Roll20 getting AD&D licensing from the rightsholder. However I am firmly standing for the playability and strong features of Roll20 aside from Compendium-ness, albeit short of official licensed conversions.  ROTTO said: Thanks Gold.  I am definitely using the character sheet with all the source materials.  I wanted players to have easy access to all of the source materials available for 2e with all the art etc available in handouts.  I'm probably being particular for sure.  Thanks for the tips. Thanks again.  I discovered the API's should be good to go!