Two Editions: 2014 and 2024
Fifth edition has two published rule sets, and Far Table carries both. The reference ships the 2014 System Reference Document, version 5.1, and the 2024 one, version 5.2. Neither is a translation of the other. Spells changed, monsters changed, and some entries exist in one and not the other.
So the app does not blend them. You read one at a time, and you say which.
The pill
At the top right of the Rules landing sits a two-segment pill labeled 2014 and 2024. Tap the segment you want. That is the whole control.
Your choice sticks. Close the app, reopen it a week later, and you are still on the edition you left on. A fresh install starts on 2014. The standalone Far Table SRD app has its own pill and remembers its own choice, so the two apps can sit on different editions at once.
There is a second way in: the first-use orientation card on the Browse face carries a button that opens a Choose SRD edition dialog, listing both with the current one marked.
What flips with it
Tapping the other segment does three things:
- The reference drops back to its landing, Contents or Browse, whichever face you were on.
- Anything typed into search is cleared.
- Every list, chapter, and card underneath is rebuilt from the new source.
Returning to the landing is deliberate, not a limitation. The two sources have different chapters, different entry lists, and different text, so there is no honest way to hold your place across the flip. Records never mix.
One exception. If you got where you are by tapping View in the other edition, flipping the pill reopens that same entry rather than dumping you at the landing. That is the one case where the app knows exactly what you were after.
Looking up something that isn't there
Open an entry that the current edition does not have, from a link, a Recent row, or a card you paged into, and you get a short page saying so by name, for example that the entry is not in SRD 5.1.
Underneath it, one of two things:
- View in the other edition, if the entry genuinely exists there. Tapping it flips the pill and opens the entry.
- A plain line saying it isn't in the other edition either.
The button only appears when there is somewhere to go, so it is never a dead end.
What the pill does not touch
The pill governs reading, and only reading. The parts of the app that play the game ignore it entirely and draw on both editions at once:
- Combat tokens that bind themselves to a monster's stats.
- The bestiary grids you pick monsters from.
- Captions on assets presented to the table.
A campaign never declares an edition. Flip the pill mid-session and no token, no encounter, and no caption changes.
Two libraries of your own
Entries you write belong to the edition you wrote them under, and do not appear in the other one. The pill therefore switches your homebrew library as well as the shipped reference. Chapter 40, Homebrew: Your Own Pages, covers what that means in practice.
The legal page
Both editions carry a License & Attribution row at the foot of the Contents landing. On 2024 the app supplies an extra Legal Information page, because the source text it was built from omits the front-matter page the 2014 material includes. Same path, same place, either way.