Navigation
- Sidebar — Browse all books and chapters. Categories collapse/expand and remember their state across sessions. The active page auto-scrolls into view.
- Search — Press Ctrl+K or s to search across all content. Results highlight matching terms.
- Prev/Next — Navigate between chapters with links at the bottom of each page, or press j/k.
- Recently Viewed — Quick access to your last visited pages, shown at the bottom of the sidebar.
- Breadcrumbs — See your current location in the book hierarchy. Mobile shows a compact trail.
Rule Profiles
Switch between variant rule sets to see house rules alongside the base text.
- Profile Switcher — Select a profile from the dropdown in the sidebar (e.g., "Throne and Wheel"). Choose "Base Rules" to turn all overlays off.
- Overlays — When a profile is active, colored blocks appear inline showing how rules are modified:
- Show Original — On "Replace" overlays, click "Show original" to toggle the base rule text for comparison.
- Persistent — Your profile selection is saved across sessions.
Reading
- Collapsible Sections — Click any H2 heading to collapse/expand its section. State is remembered per page.
- Reading Mode — Press r to hide all navigation and focus on content. Press Esc to exit.
- Progress Bar — A thin bar at the top of the page shows your reading progress.
- Back to Top — A button appears in the bottom-right after scrolling down.
- Reading Time — An estimate appears at the top of each chapter.
Content
- Glossary Tooltips — Hover underlined terms on AD&D 2E pages to see definitions and links to relevant chapters.
- Link Previews — Hover any internal link to preview the target page.
- Heading Anchors — Hover any heading to reveal a link icon. Click to copy a direct URL to that section.
- Copy Buttons — Code blocks and stat blocks have a copy button that appears on hover.
- Table Scroll — Wide tables show a gradient fade indicating more content to scroll.
Keyboard Shortcuts
jNext chapter
kPrevious chapter
sOpen search
tToggle table of contents
rToggle reading mode
?Show keyboard shortcuts overlay
EscClose dialogs / exit reading mode
Ctrl+KOpen search
Customization
- Dark Mode — Toggle between light, dark, and auto (system preference) using the button in the bottom-right corner.
- Install as App — On supported browsers, install the SRD as a standalone app for quick access from your home screen.
Offline & Print
- Works Offline — After visiting a page, it's cached for offline reading. Pages update in the background when online.
- Print-Friendly — Press Ctrl+P to print any page. Navigation chrome is automatically hidden; active rule overlays are preserved.
For Agents
- Site index — Start at https://srd-framework.vercel.app/llms.txt: every system, tool, API, and convention in one plain-text file. Machine-readable API schema at https://srd-framework.vercel.app/openapi.json.
- Markdown everywhere — Append
.mdto any content page URL, or sendAccept: text/markdownto the page itself. ~10× fewer tokens than the HTML. - Gated content — Three credentials, one password: the login form (cookie),
Authorization: Bearer <password>, or?token=<password>on any URL for clients that can't set headers. - Data, not screenshots — Tools link their raw data: price ledgers as JSON, the spell database at
/throne-and-wheel/spells.json, seeded table rolls at/api/roll/?list=1.
Press ? on any page to see keyboard shortcuts.