SRD 5.2.1, parsed

What came out of the document

Recovered from the official PDF by one scraper, and checked by 67 assertions before anything here is believed. That ratio is deliberate: Cairn's SRD is HTML with real table markup, so a bad parse there tends to throw. This one is typeset text in two justified columns, and its failures come back looking like English.

One thing the document itself gets wrong

The Archmage's XP does not match its Challenge Rating. SRD 5.2.1 prints CR 12 (XP 8,000). Challenge Rating 12 is worth 8,400 XP, and the Erinyes — also CR 12, a few pages away — prints 8,400 correctly. So this is an erratum in the published document, not a bad parse.

The data keeps 8,000, because it says what the book says. Quietly correcting it would make this corpus disagree with the page someone is reading at the table, and that is a worse failure than being wrong in the same way the source is. The selftest pins it as the only known discrepancy, so if a later revision fixes it — or introduces another — the tests say so instead of the exception rotting.

Worth saying plainly: this was not found by reading. It was found because the parse is graded against the official Challenge-Rating-to-XP table, which is knowledge from outside the parse — the same trick that caught seven swarms being welded onto the creatures above them, and four dragons whose CR line is printed back-to-front as CR 3 (700 XP).

The bestiary

filter sort

The official encounter budget

This table is the reason this system was chosen. Cairn publishes no challenge rating at all, so its oracle had to invent a metric and label it as ours. Here there is an official answer — and it can be graded. Build encounters to exactly these budgets, simulate them on a real grid, and see whether "moderate" means anything.

Not built yet

The map. A real grid: squares, movement, reach against range, opportunity attacks, cover, difficult terrain, and the cone/emanation/sphere templates. Every distance needed for it is already parsed and checked to be a whole number of five-foot squares.
The audit. Whether the budget above predicts what actually happens.
Classes and the tree. Twenty levels, the subclass fork, feats with prerequisites, multiclassing. Honestly: the SRD's tree is thin — twelve classes with one subclass each and seventeen feats, of which the only real prerequisite chain is the Warlock's invocations. The page will say so rather than dress it up.