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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8409395" data-attributes="member: 7032025">BECMI is Basic Expert amongst other, and the Rules Cyclopaedia is just everything combined, it's not compatibility, it's the same game.And yet the player's options resulted in completely different characters, not something that we saw in most cases.No, the changes were much more profound than Tasha, I have summarised them in another post, they changed a number of game mechanics, the list of skills and feats, and spells very significantly, in addition to classes.And, as with the Player's Options, the characters created were simply not the same.Just make a factual comparison to Tasha, which were relatively minor tweaks and all optional, and I think you'll see that we are not talking the same magnitude at all.Compatibility is something else again, what I was reacting to was already calling Tasha a revised edition, as well as the claim that the differences might reach the level of 3/3.5 which were actually very significant.</blockquote>