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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8692432" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I don't think that's a safe assumption in the longer term at all. Stuff being translated years late doesn't matter to WotC, which is also why it's translated years late.</p><p></p><p>Both books have plenty of material to justify them continuing to exist even if significant parts of them are taken into 5E or partially or entirely invalidated. Xanathar's has a bunch of subclasses, feats and spells, for example. Tasha's has Artificer (unlikely to make the PHB), various subclasses, feats, and spells. Even if some of those subclasses become unusable due to class changes, I don't think WotC would regard the books as "incompatible".</p><p></p><p>But this is the largest question yet remaining re: 5.5/6E - how significant will the class/subclass changes be?</p><p></p><p>It really looks like WotC want to move away from Long and Short rests, and also from stat-mod-based uses of things (to Proficiency-bonus uses). In order to do that, they'd need to make significant changes to a lot of existing classes/subclasses. So I see two potential scenarios as somewhat likely:</p><p></p><p>1) WotC chickens out, keeps Long and Short rests (maybe clarifying to two short rests being standard or perhaps the limit before a Long Rest and shortening the default length of a short rest to 10 minutes). I expect if so they will still seek to move away from Short Rests and stat-mod-based uses, but will do so less dramatically, just removing those from the PHB subclasses, and from classes where it wouldn't impact the subclasses.</p><p></p><p>If they do this, I'd expect another half-edition within 4-6 years, tops, which would complete the transition and maybe make some larger changes.</p><p></p><p>2) WotC goes for it, and because player-side math is the same, just suggests where an updated class is incompatible with a subclass in a non-PHB book, that you use the 5E version of that class, instead of the 5.5/6E version. Short rests as we know them would likely be gone, and HD might well go with them, with some kind of other rule for regaining HP. </p><p></p><p>If they do this, I think we're looking at a longer period before a new edition/half-edition.</p><p></p><p>We shall see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8692432, member: 18"] I don't think that's a safe assumption in the longer term at all. Stuff being translated years late doesn't matter to WotC, which is also why it's translated years late. Both books have plenty of material to justify them continuing to exist even if significant parts of them are taken into 5E or partially or entirely invalidated. Xanathar's has a bunch of subclasses, feats and spells, for example. Tasha's has Artificer (unlikely to make the PHB), various subclasses, feats, and spells. Even if some of those subclasses become unusable due to class changes, I don't think WotC would regard the books as "incompatible". But this is the largest question yet remaining re: 5.5/6E - how significant will the class/subclass changes be? It really looks like WotC want to move away from Long and Short rests, and also from stat-mod-based uses of things (to Proficiency-bonus uses). In order to do that, they'd need to make significant changes to a lot of existing classes/subclasses. So I see two potential scenarios as somewhat likely: 1) WotC chickens out, keeps Long and Short rests (maybe clarifying to two short rests being standard or perhaps the limit before a Long Rest and shortening the default length of a short rest to 10 minutes). I expect if so they will still seek to move away from Short Rests and stat-mod-based uses, but will do so less dramatically, just removing those from the PHB subclasses, and from classes where it wouldn't impact the subclasses. If they do this, I'd expect another half-edition within 4-6 years, tops, which would complete the transition and maybe make some larger changes. 2) WotC goes for it, and because player-side math is the same, just suggests where an updated class is incompatible with a subclass in a non-PHB book, that you use the 5E version of that class, instead of the 5.5/6E version. Short rests as we know them would likely be gone, and HD might well go with them, with some kind of other rule for regaining HP. If they do this, I think we're looking at a longer period before a new edition/half-edition. We shall see. [/QUOTE]
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