D&D (2024) The impending mess that will be backwards compatibility

[mamba]

No worse than showing up to a University class with the wrong edition version of the textbook where the page numbers are all different and the questions at the end of the chapter you get assigned for homework are changed.

yeah, nothing like that. I said no one would mistake the 5e PHB for the 1DD PHB, and everyone who has a version also knows which one it is and what the implications are

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

so what version of spells conditions and actions are you useing?

That depends if and what we are playtesting.

If we are playtest the new rules and spells we all use the new rules. In our regular game the playtest thief (like everyone else) uses the 2014 versions.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

I seriously doubt every 2024 book will be labeled 50th anniversary edition. There'll be slipcovers and leatherbound editions for that.

They said that there would not initially be alternate cover versions of the core books

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They said that there would not initially be alternate cover versions of the core books

 

[Vaalingrade]

They said that there would not initially be alternate cover versions of the core books

Binding and slip covers aren't alternate covers.

 

[Cadence]

yeah, nothing like that. I said no one would mistake the 5e PHB for the 1DD PHB, and everyone who has a version also knows which one it is and what the implications are

Never underestimate parents or grandparents attempting to buy things for their kids ...

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Binding and slip covers aren't alternate covers.

Yes they are.

There is just going to one version of the book with one cover at the start.

 

[mamba]

Never underestimate parents or grandparents attempting to buy things for their kids ...

well, good thing the 5e books will disappear a few months after 1DD is released then

 

[Cadence]

well, good thing the 5e books will disappear a few months after 1DD is released then

I'm just remembering all the threads with Christmases and/or Bdays mangled by B/X for 1e and 1e for B/X.

Maybe they'll just send their parents the right link to Amazon now.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

I really don't want to keep track of a Fighter from 2014 and a Fighter from the next, uh, I mean revised edition. I'm fine with a new edition because it means consolidating all the rules which is preferrable to having them scattered across so many books. If I purchase the next edition of D&D, and it is a new edition I don't care how much WotC protests otherwise, I'm only going to allow the new stuff at the table.

I totally support your decision. But I don't care what version of a class a person is playing. Not all rangers need to follow the same core class rules. I will allow anything printed, unless an ability really doesn't work for my campaign. For instance, if someone wants to play an 2014 Ranger, they can, though I will let them select another ability to replace the Primeval Awareness ability which I really don't like. I may even allow a different "Ranger" from a 5E "compatible" sourcebook even if it is different, like Black Flag or Level Up. It's not hard. It really isn't.