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No Warlock levels, pure Fighter. He did take a magic initiate feat, but the "patron" like element was pure roleplay.

At the end of the day, my ow experience with player-facing changes, as a player, is that the effort involved in terms of conjoined 2014 and 2024 content is roughly similar to that of Tasha's. Though in my case, my preferred take on 5e as it currently stands involves conjoining all three. It...

That makes it sound more like it isn't about compatibility but about power scaling. That's a fair conversation to have, but the two are not the same. And for what it's worth, in terms of where I draw the line in the sand on the subject of power scaling, it varies within each. There's some...

I might be misunderstanding your meaning, because this reads like a strange sentence. In order for compatibility to be a factor, clear differences are required.

Possibly! I think in those cases there may be a stronger case for debating compatibility, but I can definitely see different DMs being able to demonstrate how they made them compatible. For me though, I'd use the example of 2014 Clerics and 2024 Clerics at the same table as an example of...

To fully go um actually on this, it started as a D&D 4e one-shot, that became a Pathfinder home campaign, before it aired as a D&D 5e actual play.

Can you expand on why that is an example of incompatibility?

Didn't we already get one some time back? Not sure if a 3rd is needed IMO.

Same, a good piece to start with. The others are really good too, and I'm happy that the trend continues for me, that I like the standard covers more than the variant.

"One D&D" might have stuck around, but at least at the time it was just what they called the playtest. Like how the 2014 rules were playtested as "D&D Next." I know the OGL incident coincided, but that was just happenstance.

I had at the time assumed this was the case, but I'd had others point out that their first printing of the 3.5 PHB actually said 3.5 on the cover. But all I know is that around 2018-2020, it was only "revised third" we were allowed to say (as an outside contractor to an outside company being...

I feel like it mostly boils down to whether "compatible" also means "unchanged" or not? Like, in my experience, yes, they are fully compatible. Now, D&D Beyond as a software, that's debatable, but the ruleset itself, I've not yet encountered anything that is incompatible. But I have come...

I can only speak for myself, but in terms of a logo for either 5e or 5.5e, both mean the same thing. It's just doesn't affect my decision-making process over whether this release or that is interesting enough for me to buy. I mean sure, there's some additional information that I can get, like...

I wonder if in ten years there'll be a moment where Wizards refuses to call this 5.5, much like how a few years back they wouldn't say 3.5, only "revised third."

I wouldn't say it can't be true, that's just the risk of performing the fiction before the dice roll. I'd say that I've seen three broad approaches to this kind of "contradiction," or rather two extreme ends and a compromise. The extreme end that favors the fiction would be disregarding the...

Yeah, and that's fine when you've all settled in a preferred way to handle that relationship between mechanics and the fiction. It's basically like allowing for a description of the attack made before the dice is rolled to decide that roll, to choose the fiction of the description to supersede...

I wouldn't even say that. It's taking a different approach to accomplishing the same objective. Combat in 5e is initiated by some act that actually occurs within the initiative order. Those who are surprised will likely act later than those who are not surprised, either waiting for round 2 or...

In the final fight against the BBEG, it came down to our sorceress facing him down on her lonesome. She threw absolutely everything at this guy, but by the end of her turn he was left standing with 2 HP. I'd explained before that the BBEG's ritual would finish if he got his next turn. At this...

Yes, Critical Role started as a show on the Geek & Sundry network before it struck out on its own as an independent company, taking many Geek & Sundry staff with them, just before Geek & Sundry collapsed as another victim to the mid-late 2010s devastation of internet entertainment companies.

Correct, they still belong to Geek & Sundry. Beacon has an article explaining where to find that content in the place where the episodes would be.