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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8755466" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Umm, I loved 2008-2010 4e and 2010-2013 Essentials. I bought everything in both versions of the 4th Edition. I also bought a LOT of 3e and 3.5e, and own 1e and 2e core rules, and EVERY 5e book. I’m not edition warring, or trying to diminish one or the other. If anything, I’m a WotC shill because I’m a reliable customer who will buy their stuff no matter how many revisions they go through. Nor am I saying they couldn’t be played side by side. I do know people who felt very uncomfortable playing characters built with one book side by side with characters built using the others. This was mostly because 2008 PHB in particular was incredibly and perfectly balanced for combat with AEDU powers.That balance was much more precarious come the 2010 PH3 and Psionics letting you pump up your at-wills into encounter-level powers, and even more so when you have Essentials characters with completely different class feature structures than the 1st level core class and build mechanics + AEDU powers carrying everything else.From just Packet One, One D&amp;D looks to have a completely different baseline power assumption for what options players have to play with at any given level. But it’s not like trying to port 3.5e adventures into 4e and having to create dozens of specialized monsters and rethink encounters to incorporate minions and elites etc. It’s like Essentials and 4e, and it’s like 3.5e and 3e. Sure the math may be different and I may need to use errata or give my players using 2014 PHB builds a bonus feat to keep up with the rest, but it should be no harder than when I tried to use Rokugan rules from 3e in a 3.5e game…</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8755466, member: 6803643"] Umm, I loved 2008-2010 4e and 2010-2013 Essentials. I bought everything in both versions of the 4th Edition. I also bought a LOT of 3e and 3.5e, and own 1e and 2e core rules, and EVERY 5e book. I’m not edition warring, or trying to diminish one or the other. If anything, I’m a WotC shill because I’m a reliable customer who will buy their stuff no matter how many revisions they go through. Nor am I saying they couldn’t be played side by side. I do know people who felt very uncomfortable playing characters built with one book side by side with characters built using the others. This was mostly because 2008 PHB in particular was incredibly and perfectly balanced for combat with AEDU powers. That balance was much more precarious come the 2010 PH3 and Psionics letting you pump up your at-wills into encounter-level powers, and even more so when you have Essentials characters with completely different class feature structures than the 1st level core class and build mechanics + AEDU powers carrying everything else. From just Packet One, One D&D looks to have a completely different baseline power assumption for what options players have to play with at any given level. But it’s not like trying to port 3.5e adventures into 4e and having to create dozens of specialized monsters and rethink encounters to incorporate minions and elites etc. It’s like Essentials and 4e, and it’s like 3.5e and 3e. Sure the math may be different and I may need to use errata or give my players using 2014 PHB builds a bonus feat to keep up with the rest, but it should be no harder than when I tried to use Rokugan rules from 3e in a 3.5e game… [/QUOTE]

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