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<blockquote data-quote="lynnfredricks" data-source="post: 9455041" data-attributes="member: 91695">As compared with the history of versioning (AD&amp;D being 1e, and onward), it is a new edition.The OneD&amp;D pseudo-brand though, was critically important to protect their sales and distribution. When people hear 'there's a new version coming...' then inclination is to stop buying until the new version is out. That means any product out there in the world becomes a problem, and retail will want to stock rotate the old for the new. 2024/2014 is just a convenient way of packaging the change. Plus the added bonus is that &quot;5e&quot; has become extremely recognizable.&nbsp;The thing about 2024 / 2014 is that it worked.The problem I see is that compatibility isn't perfect, but that's ultimately going to work itself out. People that want to stick with 2014 are fine. People that want to start a new game and they've bought 2024, will just start fresh. It looks like if you don't try to do anything other than use the new spell descriptions, putting a 2014 character in a 2024 game isn't going to be a huge leap. Putting 2024 stuff into a 2014 game looks more problematic but, that's not the direction that WotC wants you to go, anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lynnfredricks, post: 9455041, member: 91695"] As compared with the history of versioning (AD&D being 1e, and onward), it is a new edition. The OneD&D pseudo-brand though, was critically important to protect their sales and distribution. When people hear 'there's a new version coming...' then inclination is to stop buying until the new version is out. That means any product out there in the world becomes a problem, and retail will want to stock rotate the old for the new. 2024/2014 is just a convenient way of packaging the change. Plus the added bonus is that "5e" has become extremely recognizable. The thing about 2024 / 2014 is that it worked. The problem I see is that compatibility isn't perfect, but that's ultimately going to work itself out. People that want to stick with 2014 are fine. People that want to start a new game and they've bought 2024, will just start fresh. It looks like if you don't try to do anything other than use the new spell descriptions, putting a 2014 character in a 2024 game isn't going to be a huge leap. Putting 2024 stuff into a 2014 game looks more problematic but, that's not the direction that WotC wants you to go, anyway. [/QUOTE]

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