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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5774722" data-attributes="member: 7006">Despite the fact that we all know (both the company and us players) that the next iteration of the game will not unite everybody, all 100%, of us D&amp;D players into switching to this new game... the one thing that I think they are aiming for is a game that mirrors all the various editions out there... so that players of each of the editions can switch over if they want... or probably more importantly, USE the new stuff that gets released in whatever version of the game they are sticking with.When most folks talk about &quot;supporting old editions&quot;... they usually are referring to being able to buy PDFs of old material (presumably with nothing done to them or been updated in any way... just electronic scans of the adventures/books).&nbsp; But what if what this #dndnext does is actually create a game system where the NEW products that are created and released for this next iteration actually CAN be used by other players in some form or fashion in their older game edition of choice without them actually needing to switch to &quot;5E&quot; (since the whole purpose of 5E is to make products as compatible with all the editions as possible)?&nbsp; We're now talking about support for older editions even greater than I think most old schoolers would expect or hope for (although the PDF situation would also help out in that regard obviously too).Doesn't that in some way help rebuild some bridges that had been blown up previously?&nbsp; The fact that they now seem to want to tell all D&amp;D players &quot;We're creating this new iteration of the game with more universal D&amp;D rules, so that each month when we release a new adventure online in Dungeon Magazine, it will be able to be played using not only the new iteration, but also whatever game you currently are still playing with a minimum of adaptation, hassle, and fuss&quot;?Maybe creating that type of game isn't actually possible (and I'm sure we'll find out soon enough)... but at least we should give them a little bit of credit in seeing if they can.&nbsp; Because if they do manage to pull it off... we all win.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5774722, member: 7006"] Despite the fact that we all know (both the company and us players) that the next iteration of the game will not unite [I]everybody[/I], all 100%, of us D&D players into [I]switching[/I] to this new game... the one thing that I think they are aiming for is a game that [I]mirrors[/I] all the various editions out there... so that players of each of the editions can switch over if they want... or probably more importantly, USE the new stuff that gets released in whatever version of the game they are sticking with. When most folks talk about "supporting old editions"... they usually are referring to being able to buy PDFs of old material (presumably with nothing done to them or been updated in any way... just electronic scans of the adventures/books). But what if what this #dndnext does is actually create a game system where the NEW products that are created and released for this next iteration actually CAN be used by other players in some form or fashion in their older game edition of choice [I]without[/I] them actually needing to switch to "5E" (since the whole purpose of 5E is to make products as compatible with all the editions as possible)? We're now talking about support for older editions even greater than I think most old schoolers would expect or hope for (although the PDF situation would also help out in that regard obviously too). Doesn't that in some way help rebuild some bridges that had been blown up previously? The fact that they now seem to want to tell all D&D players "We're creating this new iteration of the game with more universal D&D rules, so that each month when we release a new adventure online in Dungeon Magazine, it will be able to be played using not only the new iteration, but also whatever game you currently are still playing with a minimum of adaptation, hassle, and fuss"? Maybe creating that type of game isn't actually possible (and I'm sure we'll find out soon enough)... but at least we should give them a little bit of credit in seeing if they can. Because if they do manage to pull it off... we all win. [/QUOTE]

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