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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5446091" data-attributes="member: 90804">First, be aware that talking about things like 4.1 and 4.5 will probably be perceived by many as trolling. I'm still pretty new to D&D, but even I have seen edition war mania crop up. So, tread carefully.To answer your questions, rules updates / errata to all of the original books are still available, and if there are future rules updates those will be made available as well. So if you want to use the most up-to-date rules and you're okay with printing out those rules update documents, you're fine.For monsters, monster damage has been increased in MM3 and later books like Monster Vault. You can still use the MM1 monsters as written, but they'll probably come across as wimpy. I really enjoy the updated monsters - they present a real threat to the party without having to make the easiest encounter equal to the party's level plus two. When I use older monsters, I adjust them upward.The Essentials books do NOT replace the old books. The player books (Heroes of the Fallen Lands / Forgotten Kingdoms) have new builds. That's it. Those new builds feel different from the original builds for certain classes (mainly the martial classes), but they don't invalidate the original builds at all.  I've played many Living Forgotten Realms games with original versions of the classes alongside Essentials versions, and they work just fine. They're just more options.To your last question, if you write something that works with the original books, it will work just fine today. If you use monster damage that's similar to MM1 monsters, the monsters will probably feel wimpy, but I imagine that you would playtest whatever you publish to make sure that it feels exciting, so that wouldn't be a problem. Those monsters would have felt wimpy years ago, too, if you ran them as written.</blockquote>

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