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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9662464" data-attributes="member: 86653">Here’s a recent video from Sly Flourish about playing multiple 5E variants at the same table.[MEDIA=youtube]Da08Msw8zUo[/MEDIA]The video reminded me of a thought experiment I was working on a few years back based on the story of Dave Arneson running players through a D&D game with players having characters from different editions of the game.Could you play every edition of D&D at the same time, at the same table?Impossible?Hardly. Mike hit on the core idea during his video. The game the players are using doesn’t have to be the same as the referee is running. Further, the players don’t even have to be playing the same game as each other.Take that a step further and you could fairly easily have PCs from any edition in the same game. The trick is translating things from the disparate systems for the players into a common rule or system for the referee then translating them back to the individual systems for the players.And this doesn’t only apply to D&D. Which is why this isn’t in the D&D forum. As long as the genres are compatible, you can have all kinds of systems running on either side of the screen.</blockquote>