D&D (2024) New Jeremy Crawford Interviews

[TiQuinn]

Don't co fuse backwards compatibility with forwards compatability: they never promised forwards compatability, just backwards compatibility. That is, old books and options remain usable, not that all new options will work with the older books. Though frankly the forwards compatability quotient is pretty high, still.

It’s more a commentary on what players feel is important in a new edition.

 

[tetrasodium]

It’s more a commentary on what players feel is important in a new edition.

"^some players".

 

[mamba]

Huh, what are you complaining about? Like I don't get how this sentence throws GMs under the bus.

throwing DMs under the bus is their pet peeve… to me the logic goes something like this: WotC has known for years that the Paladin was OP, but they just left it as is and told no one. That left DMs stranded that came to the same conclusion and had to argue with their players about the limits they wanted to impose to fix it, they had nothing to point to, to help them in the argument

 

[mamba]

Or what? I'm confused about the word "must" here. Honestly, I just don't see why any player whose chosen option is getting nerfed "must" use the new version. Why should they? It's not like you're playing a new edition right?

call it ‘strongly recommended’ rather than ‘must’… if anyone is enforcing it, it will be the GM, not WotC

 

[Parmandur]

It’s more a commentary on what players feel is important in a new edition.

Well, sure, not invalidating existing books. Easy as that. They should never do that.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Which is why “backwards compatibility” has always been a laughable consideration.

Then perhaps WotC shouldn't have been shilling it so hard.

 

[mamba]

Which is why “backwards compatibility” has always been a laughable consideration.

backwards compatibility is not limited to subclasses, I would not have minded not being as compatible with those.

Being compatible with adventures and monster manuals was always more important to me

 

[Micah Sweet]

backwards compatibility is not limited to subclasses, I would not have minded not being as compatible with those.

Being compatible with adventures and monster manuals was always more important to me

See, I never ran WotC adventures, just tore them apart for my own setting, so that kind of backwards compatibility was always meaningless to me.

 

[TiQuinn]

Well, sure, not invalidating existing books. Easy as that. They should never do that.

I think that’s the fig leaf. Of course to some degree it will be invalidated. And that gap between 2014 books and 2024 books will grow as the 2024 edition goes on.

 

[TiQuinn]

Being compatible with adventures and monster manuals was always more important to me

And for a lot of people, it’s always been a thing that you take an adventure that you like the concept of and have to spend some time updating it.