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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9605742" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Sure, but by that same token, 3e, 4e, and 5e are all &quot;compatible enough&quot; if they're &quot;stripped down&quot; far enough. They all use the D20 substrate and a bunch of common terms. (E.g. 3e's &quot;Attack of Opportunity&quot; is identical to 4e/5e's &quot;Opportunity Attack&quot;; &quot;Swift Action&quot;, &quot;Minor Action&quot;, and &quot;Bonus Action&quot; are functionally equivalent; etc.) &quot;Compatible enough stripped down&quot; doesn't really tell us very much, because for some that might mean &quot;minor, mostly-cosmetic changes&quot; and for another it might mean &quot;well you can technically make anything work with anything so long as you're willing to do enough work.&quot;Yeah, folks act like munchkins invented the &quot;Monty Haul&quot; campaign. Even I, with nearly-zero 1e experience, know that even official adventures sometimes showered players with loot. Indeed, that may be one of the few ways 5e really does resemble the earlier editions, rather than being all &quot;feel&quot; and &quot;advice&quot;: tons of money and little to spend it on, unless the DM invents a bunch of stuff from whole cloth, or directly ignores various things.Wouldn't the need to &quot;hybridize&quot; at all at least imply that the 1e-&gt;2e transition wasn't superficial, but rather contained a mix of things that were extremely similar and things that were meaningfully different?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9605742, member: 6790260"] Sure, but by that same token, 3e, 4e, and 5e are all "compatible enough" if they're "stripped down" far enough. They all use the D20 substrate and a bunch of common terms. (E.g. 3e's "Attack of Opportunity" is identical to 4e/5e's "Opportunity Attack"; "Swift Action", "Minor Action", and "Bonus Action" are functionally equivalent; etc.) "Compatible enough stripped down" doesn't really tell us very much, because for some that might mean "minor, mostly-cosmetic changes" and for another it might mean "well you can [I]technically[/I] make anything work with anything so long as you're willing to do enough work." Yeah, folks act like munchkins invented the "Monty Haul" campaign. Even I, with nearly-zero 1e experience, know that even official adventures sometimes [I]showered[/I] players with loot. Indeed, that may be one of the few ways 5e really does resemble the earlier editions, rather than being all "feel" and "advice": tons of money and little to spend it on, unless the DM invents a bunch of stuff from whole cloth, or directly ignores various things. Wouldn't the need to "hybridize" at all at least imply that the 1e->2e transition wasn't superficial, but rather contained a mix of things that were extremely similar and things that were meaningfully different? [/QUOTE]

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