How can I get full PF1 source rules content for a personal / community project?

[Ghap]

Hi,
I'm trying to build an Obsidian.md vault for my PF1E campaigns. Some projects already exist but they are absolutely obsolete...

see https://github.com/Obsidian-TTRPG-Community/Pathfinder-1E-SRD-Markdown

I could use Combat Manager XML files but they are not up-to-date, I could also wget d20pfsrd or aonprd websites or event try to convert some FoundryVTT ldb files.

Actually I tried and I find it frustrating because nothing is straight or actually complete...

So my question, how do those guys using PF1E source material actually obtain those sources?

Shall I contact someone specific person or e-mail?

I tried to check the Community Use Packages but they look like what images we are allowed to use - no use...

Thanks for reading/answering, the main question is "how do those guys using PF1E source material actually obtain those sources?"

[Belafon]

Ghap wrote:

Thanks for reading/answering, the main question is "how do those guys using PF1E source material actually obtain those sources?"

In the case of d20pfsrd or Archives of Nethys the answer is:

"As each new book was published they bought the book then added the material from that book to their site."

Spoiler:

Game mechanics can't be copyrighted, so they were in the clear adding the rules material. Intellectual Property isn't free use normally, but Paizo allowed non-commercial entities to use them in a limited fashion. Which is why AoN (non-commercial) can use the published name of Milanite armor but d20pfsrd had to rename it (runs their own storefront) to avoid the deity "Milani." Foundry - I believe - has a license from Paizo.

I suspect the same is true for Combat Manager though I'm not sure what Foundry's primary source was. If none of those sources is sufficient for your use, you're going to have to go through the books on your own one by one.

[Belafon]

Addendum:

If you're asking "where can I get a Paizo-produced, easily parsable compilation of all the rules?" - there isn't such a thing in the wild any more complete than Archives of Nethys.

Heck, there may not even be such a thing inside Paizo. Way back in 2011 (2 years into PF1) or so there was a blog post where a newly hired Paizo intern introduced herself and stated that her first job was going to be to making a database of all the rules published to that point. Because Paizo didn’t have one and no one person at the company knew them all!

I never did see a post about that project being completed and - if it was - if it was kept up after the intern left.

Spoiler:

I doubt it.

[Ghap]

Thanks Belafon :)
I guess I'll keep on converting the AON files I wgetted.