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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7691380" data-attributes="member: 7006">For the most part, most people wouldn't.  But there definitely is that small subset of gamers who enjoy the idea of playing in the style of the games of old, and I suspect it is definitely easier to do so when there's a product that has already stripped out all of the 5E-isms from the books that they don't want, so that they have their "complete game experience" all printed up together.  Why have to waste time flipping past all those pages on tieflings, and Oath of the Ancients paladins, when you have a single booklet that only has in it what you want that's styled after the old Red Box?WotC has always said that they wanted 5E to be a game that would allow you to play in the style of the previous editions.  And if you take just selected elements from the PH and DMG and jerry-rig them together, in many ways you CAN do that to a certain extent.  This product is going to be a test-case for just how successful it can be to only print those parts that you want to get that particular edition style in a single book or place.The next step I would imagine is for someone who enjoyed BOTH 4E and 5E to create a 4E version of 5E, using all the alternate rules that are available, making specific select uses of features from the books, to create a 5E'd 4E.  And then writing this book up so that all the rules are in one place and you no longer have to ask players to create their own version of 4E'd 5E.  Then once we get that... we'll see someone create and publish a 1E'd 5E, a 2E'd 5E, 3E'd 5E, Pathfinder 5E (as mentioned previously), so on and so forth.Why were the Conversion Notes WotC put out kind of lackluster?  Probably cause they knew this was happening and that there would be a whole host of enterprising players out there who would jump at the chance to create conversions of all these prior editions themselves.  Saved WotC a lot of time and trouble.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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