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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8740104" data-attributes="member: 23751">Yes. I understand that and read that sidebar.&nbsp; As I pointed out to [USER=6780330]@Parmandur[/USER], though, it really can't be balanced or backwards compatible with feats as part of the backgrounds, which at this point are pretty much a guarantee. We see it with the new books they are releasing.WotC also promised backwards compatibility with 3.5 and 3e, but 3.5 had the same issues I see here. You could run them together, but they were not equal to one another.That's a pipe dream.&nbsp; It's already obvious that you can't balance the new backgrounds with the old ones, since the new ones are strictly better given the feat, so all else being equal, the new entire package will be better than the old entire package based on that alone.&nbsp; If they start mucking around with the classes, spells and subclasses, I really doubt that things will remain equal there, but I'm willing to wait and see.&nbsp; Maybe WotC will surprise me. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It has to remain close or that huge power skew will become even more pronounced, further wrecking any backwards compatibility.Sure.&nbsp; This is just the first iteration of the first portion of the playtest.&nbsp; I'm not thinking anything is finalized, except for some sort of feats being tied to background.&nbsp; I think THAT is set in stone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8740104, member: 23751"] Yes. I understand that and read that sidebar. As I pointed out to [USER=6780330]@Parmandur[/USER], though, it really can't be balanced or backwards compatible with feats as part of the backgrounds, which at this point are pretty much a guarantee. We see it with the new books they are releasing. WotC also promised backwards compatibility with 3.5 and 3e, but 3.5 had the same issues I see here. You could run them together, but they were not equal to one another. That's a pipe dream. It's already obvious that you can't balance the new backgrounds with the old ones, since the new ones are strictly better given the feat, so all else being equal, the new entire package will be better than the old entire package based on that alone. If they start mucking around with the classes, spells and subclasses, I really doubt that things will remain equal there, but I'm willing to wait and see. Maybe WotC will surprise me. :) It has to remain close or that huge power skew will become even more pronounced, further wrecking any backwards compatibility. Sure. This is just the first iteration of the first portion of the playtest. I'm not thinking anything is finalized, except for some sort of feats being tied to background. I think THAT is set in stone. [/QUOTE]

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