5thSRD VS DND.SRD.Wiki

5thSRD: https://5thsrd.org/

The 5th edition SRD is free and now licensed under a Creative Commons license. It is yours. You can use it without giving a penny to WotC or supporting the company in any way.

With the standard rules freely available, as well as free character creation tools and a great campaign on D&D Beyond, D&D is completely free to get started with.

I made a markdown version a while ago, if you are interested!

If you want a digital version of the basic rules, here is a good place to start. It contains all the basic rules for each base class, the rules regarding ability scores, actions and other general stuff, as well as a single subclass for each class. If you want more subclass options you'll have to buy a copy of the official books (players handbook, Xanathar's guide to everything, or Tasha's Cauldron of everything have the majority of the extra subclasses in them) or persuade a friend to share them with you.

I converted it to markdown here: https://github.com/vitusventure/5thSRD/tree/master/docs

https://5thsrd.org/. The official SRD. Give it a skim. Use the search function for price lists etc. Monster stat blocks have the exp for defeating them. The treasure tables have expected treasure values.

This might be of interest to you. It seems very complete

Looking around, I found this GitGub project that converts it all into Markdown, maybe this will be useful?

WotC's PDFs are untagged and convert poorly, so if you want a Markdown version, try https://srd.wiki.

If you absolutely must convert it yourself, use pdfminer, which does a good job with the columns and doesn't need a ton of editing to smooth out.

Well for note keeping there is https://obsidian.md/ - which you can pull the entire SRD down to your vault (https://github.com/OldManUmby/DND.SRD.Wiki) . Josh Plunkett has a great set of videos on how to use for TTRPG https://www.youtube.com/c/JoshPlunkett

OldManUmby's "D&D SRD Remastered" is an elegant version of 5e SRD splitted to separate Markdown files(every spell, class, magic item, monster). Ideal for multiple members team for eg. translating every single file by other person. https://github.com/OldManUmby/DND.SRD.Wiki

Community content available (D&D 5e SRD)

Sites like this provide the free rules/content under version control: https://github.com/OldManUmby/DND.SRD.Wiki

- https://ogl-srd5.com SRD as a giant markdown file. I used MDSaw to split this file up, and then you can basically search the SRD using something like grep/ripgrep. Or you can use pandoc to convert it to org, and then use org-agenda on that.

I use Outline which is very slick and modern. It supports Markdown (just like Reddit) so it's very fast and easy to write in and makes it convenient to import the SRD.

I use a wiki that supports Markdown (outline) and imported the SRD in Markdown from here.