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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 8739248" data-attributes="member: 2067">This is their explicitly stated intention. Heck, it's probably part of the reason they're calling it &quot;One D&amp;D.&quot; It's the same game, see! One D&amp;D, not multiple!Having seen this kind of refresh happen in every edition, I think that intention is optimistic. It's not even something related to the design of the game, really. It could be the exact same text with the word &quot;elf&quot; replaced with the word &quot;sandwich&quot; and people would be adverse about mixing. One need not be reticent. People will be, anyway. That kind of code switching and re-learning will require more of people than they may be willing to give (when my player says her mountain dwarf criminal has the alert feat, what does that mean? Can she be surprised? Does she have heavy armor proficiency? Screw it, everyone just use the new rules 'cuz that's what's actively supported.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 8739248, member: 2067"] This is their explicitly stated intention. Heck, it's probably part of the reason they're calling it "One D&D." It's the same game, see! One D&D, not multiple! Having seen this kind of refresh happen in every edition, I think that intention is optimistic. It's not even something related to the [I]design[/I] of the game, really. It could be the exact same text with the word "elf" replaced with the word "sandwich" and people would be adverse about mixing. One need not be reticent. People will be, anyway. That kind of code switching and re-learning will require more of people than they may be willing to give (when my player says her mountain dwarf criminal has the alert feat, what does that [B]mean[/B]? Can she be surprised? Does she have heavy armor proficiency? Screw it, everyone just use the new rules 'cuz that's what's actively supported.) [/QUOTE]

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