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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9579592" data-attributes="member: 4348">5e doesn't feel like anything related to 2e at all, to me.The closest one might say would be the sub-classes/archetypes each class gets in 5e, at least in relation to Kits (though Kits were not mandatory in 2e and you could play the game just fine without any kits at all).The very limited Bounded Accuracy (that +4 deviation) is perhaps one of the biggest things that make it extremely different than 2e (even if one says 2e had a type of bounded accuracy, that was at least a 20 point difference, which on a D20, is massive).The HP bloat also kills a lot of how similar 2e is to 5e, and changes just about everything between the two.The way Skills are handled also is different to the degree that it doesn't really resemble 2e.In fact, I'd say 1e was far closer to 2e than 5e.  5e isn't even compatible, much less a successor.3.0 (3e, the original, not 3.5) is much more like a successor than 5e, and 3.0 isn't even compatible with 2e.If anything 5e is a combination of 4e (the first with a more serious bounded accuracy, though not quite as severe as 5e, and various other items such as how they handle skills.  It's just not popular to refer people to how much of 4e is found within 5e's system) and 3.5 D&D.  It's closer as being a successor to 3.5 than to 2e...IMO.</blockquote>