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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8731793" data-attributes="member: 19857">You release a supplement showing how to do ascending AC as an optional rule and then in the next revision it becomes the actual rule.You release a supplement showing how to consolidate the stat charts into a single chart as an optional rule, and then in the next revision it becomes the actual rule.Release the supplement, optional rule, next revision it's the standard rule.In fact that's a good example because non weapon proficiencies entered the game via a supplement in 1e and then become an official rule in the 2e PHB.  That's the process I'm talking about.Sure - but you can seed the ground beforehand so that when you do make the major changes everyone knows they're coming and many folks have already been using them.  Tasha's and MoM are both really good examples of this kind of approach and are part of the evidence of why I think that Wizards is planning on taking this approach.Also again - D&D was in a very different spot when Wizards released 3e than they are with 5e.  3e came after TSR has basically been basically intentionally ignoring any game design that didn't come from within TSR itself.  3e was the "catch up" edition where D&D was brought up to date with where RPGs basically were in the 90s.  5e isn't suffering from being 2 decades behind in game design the way that D&D was when 3e game out.</blockquote>