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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9274846" data-attributes="member: 59816">We don't know, but I think we can assume that the books with the same names are out, of course.Yes. That has been one of my many points.Yes. I said that in the post you quoted. The point is, and always has been, to keep the large back catalogue (IE THE ADVENTURES) in print and viable. The very reason the books that are named the same are named such is because they are the ones being replaced, but NOT THE OTHER ONES.Yes. I'm pretty sure I've made it clear that I agree with you about that?Nah. They'll be the same classic three core books going forward, like D&D has "always" had. Again (I've posted this before) - I understand why you have trouble with something being BOTH one thing AND another at the same time (I often do too - it's very human!) but reality has it as a possibility. The new books DO "replace" the old books, as you've been saying (WotC HAS NOT DENIED THIS!) They simply allow, that IF YOUR GROUP WANTS TO, you can still use the old one instead and play the same game. Is every rule exactly the same? Of course not. But do they broadly work together? YES, except for us gamers who have a really hard time with imperfection (a lot of us!) They line up imperfectly (though, again, I repeat, not ALL that different from how something like Level-Up is not exactly the same as 5e, but 2024 5e (grrrr.... 5.5 if you must!) will line up CLOSER than A5e, even if not exactly perfectly. Many, many people who play D&D don't need things to line up quite so perfectly - this is why you hear people who mixed 1e and 2e or 3.0 and 3.5. Or heck, if you need another example of "Not An Edition" change, the 2e Black PHB with the 2e brown PHB (though those were broadly the same thing but with quite a bit of errata - they were smart then to put their new material in the "Skills and Powers" book instead of the main PHB) Or were they? It all sold terribly, and they went out of business. (Though I would say that those are two different issues).Point is, they DO combine. IF YOU LET THEM. But you don't have to! You can do what you like.</blockquote>

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