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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8692396" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't really agree but definitions of "conservative" vary here. We know some of the rules changes, but there's a bunch of poorly-handled stuff they could change without having a huge impact, and I suspect we'll see more changes to classes/subclasses than people expect. The last major "rules update" book was Tasha's, and the fundamental rules ideas for that are from late 2019, which will be five years ago by the time 5.5/6E comes out. Already the ideas from Tasha's have seen some fairly significant development/tuning with MotM's races, for example. It'll be very interesting to see what the PHB races look like.My personal expectation is that there will be significantly more changes than 3.5E, and somewhat fewer changes than 2E, in terms of total change. I'd be unsurprised if we lost Hit Dice or they were altered significantly, for example (equally, they might not be), for example. I'd also be unsurprised to see Counterspell DIAF or get significantly more specialized, as another example.I don't think we'll see any fundamental changes to player-side mathematics.</blockquote>