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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8632207" data-attributes="member: 52734">Things were a little different where I was back then.  In my own games, I had started a group with 1E (w/ UA) and we flipped to 2E shortly after the new edition came out.  We had a monk in the group, so we grandfathered that class in (among other things, like Half-orcs).  I still used 1E modules where I could, but just used 2E stats for any of the monsters they came across - or their 1E stats if they hadn’t been released in 2E format.  Other DMs in my area did much the same, and it stayed pretty much the same until the death of the edition.  Those who came into D&D later might not have grandfathered in 1E material, but that would be because they didn’t have or know of the material in the first place.  If you sat down and educated them on it, I imagine most would be fine with including it.IF things change in the 2024 books, I suspect it with be more like the 1E -> 1E UA days.  Classes and races will get some bumps and ribbons (and a sort of Method V stat generation change with the floating ASIs & 1st/4th level feats) with the new books, but existing characters won’t need to be changed to continue playing.  Prior modules should still work fine as-is, though newer ones would certainly take any changes into account - but I don’t think they’d be significant enough to really be noticeable.</blockquote>