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Not really. I had folks swearing up and down that 5.5e was going to be a smooth as butter effective non-change and that anyone saying otherwise was clearly disingenuous and having an agenda against 5e.

Those voices are silent now.

I dont worry about the usual suspects, it takes very little critical review to see that 5.5 is different.
 

Given the lack of SRD in that time frame that means you need to own a PHB 2024, so "it's not a new edition" is such a scam.
You can play AL using the Free Rules.
While that doesn't mean anything towards your second clause, it does mean that there's no requirement to own the PHB

But, also. My players haven't even noticed me running monsters using 2024 rules (or ToV). 5e is so soft. It's a goo that makes "lacks compatibility" arguments moot.
 



I dont worry about the usual suspects, it takes very little critical review to see that 5.5 is different.
Claiming it's compatible (it is) is not the same as saying it's not different (it is different). The important parts work fine with either edition. You can play older adventures with the new rules, and newer PCs with older PCs, and I strongly suspect newer monsters with older adventures, etc.. And nothing fundamental will be strange to a player familiar with 2014 rules. It's all built on the same skeleton for both editions.
 

Not really. I had folks swearing up and down that 5.5e was going to be a smooth as butter effective non-change and that anyone saying otherwise was clearly disingenuous and having an agenda against 5e.

Those voices are silent now.
Not silent, just tired of the same argument now that it's out and so obviously we were right and it's compatible in the ways they said it would be compatible. We're out here actually playing the new edition with old stuff and having no issues, while you continue to white-room nit pick stuff that just isn't a big deal for actual games being played.
 

Not silent, just tired of the same argument now that it's out and so obviously we were right and it's compatible in the ways they said it would be compatible. We're out here actually playing the new edition with old stuff and having no issues, while you continue to white-room nit pick stuff that just isn't a big deal for actual games being played.
Yeah, the designers succeeded at backwards compatability as a design goal in a big way.
 
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Not really. I had folks swearing up and down that 5.5e was going to be a smooth as butter effective non-change and that anyone saying otherwise was clearly disingenuous and having an agenda against 5e.

Those voices are silent now.
No. Everyone said you didn't need to get rid of your old 5e collection because they would work with the new books with some minor adjustments. Anyone with half a brain knew you weren't going to be able to run a 2014 wild shape on a 2024 druid, that feats, backgrounds and subclasses would need some conversion and that the new PHB would overwrite the old one. People whose agenda was to de-legitimize it to being an incompatible 6e kept trying to find the smallest corner cases to prove that it's a new game, WotC are liars and 5e is dead.

The reasonable stance still remains: if an option has not been revised in the new books, the old book version is usable with a little work. You can still use shadow sorcery or play a tabaxi or take the gunner feat. You can still run Curse of Strahd or Wild Beyond the Witchlight and you can still play in Strixhaven or Eberron.

But please, continue to remind everyone that since warlocks get their abilities at 3rd level instead of first, we're clearly playing 6e and must burn all our 5e books to prove it.
 

I’ve run a couple 2024 games and haven’t had any real issues.

You have?
No, I have not. I don't see how that's relevant to what I said. I was told, repeatedly, on this forum, that "2024 D&D" was going to be pure mix & match, no difficulties, no wrinkles, with nothing more than a "where do you get your stats from?" difference between the two. That it was somehow offensive to suggest that "One D&D" could even be considered a revision.

People don't say this anymore.
 

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