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<blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 9430618" data-attributes="member: 55680">&quot;Backward compatible&quot; isn't an objective standard. It's all a sliding scale. I've played a very fun campaign in which the players used 5e stats and adventured in a 0e dungeon with me using unconverted 0e HPs, spell effects, etc. and handwaving everything that didn't work. Was so much fun I did another campaign with 5e characters and a Basic D&amp;D dungeon. Worked fine. Does that mean that 5e is backwards compatible with 0e? No, not really.Meanwhile a bunch of stuff like how races and backgrounds work in 5e are completely different from how they work in 5.5e. Can you make it work? Sure, but they're pretty different. Meanwhile 5e subclasses aren't compatible with 5.5e classes as the levels at which a lot of classes get subclass abilities are different in many cases. Is a 5e monk compatible with a 5.5e party? Technically yes, bit it'll be hilariously underpowered to the extent that it'll cause a lot of problems.&quot;Backwards compatibility&quot; isn't going to be determined by anything that WotC says, it'll be determined by how many DMs mix and match 5e and 5.5e books. On the one hand as a kid we mixed 1e, 2e, and Basic books pretty freely and nobody really gave a naughty word if something was published for 1e or 2e. But on the other hand 3.5e was backwards compatible with 3e, officially at least, but I almost never saw DMs allowing 3e content in there 3.5e games so any claims about backwards compatibility didn't matter at all. Same with PF 1e and 3.5e.Now if your home DM lets you stick Tasha's content on your 5.5e character then you're good to go, but I'm willing to bet that by the end of next year there'll be a pretty hard line between 5.5e and 5e tables and most DMs are not going to let players mix and match stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daztur, post: 9430618, member: 55680"] "Backward compatible" isn't an objective standard. It's all a sliding scale. I've played a very fun campaign in which the players used 5e stats and adventured in a 0e dungeon with me using unconverted 0e HPs, spell effects, etc. and handwaving everything that didn't work. Was so much fun I did another campaign with 5e characters and a Basic D&D dungeon. Worked fine. Does that mean that 5e is backwards compatible with 0e? No, not really. Meanwhile a bunch of stuff like how races and backgrounds work in 5e are completely different from how they work in 5.5e. Can you make it work? Sure, but they're pretty different. Meanwhile 5e subclasses aren't compatible with 5.5e classes as the levels at which a lot of classes get subclass abilities are different in many cases. Is a 5e monk compatible with a 5.5e party? Technically yes, bit it'll be hilariously underpowered to the extent that it'll cause a lot of problems. "Backwards compatibility" isn't going to be determined by anything that WotC says, it'll be determined by how many DMs mix and match 5e and 5.5e books. On the one hand as a kid we mixed 1e, 2e, and Basic books pretty freely and nobody really gave a naughty word if something was published for 1e or 2e. But on the other hand 3.5e was backwards compatible with 3e, officially at least, but I almost never saw DMs allowing 3e content in there 3.5e games so any claims about backwards compatibility didn't matter at all. Same with PF 1e and 3.5e. Now if your home DM lets you stick Tasha's content on your 5.5e character then you're good to go, but I'm willing to bet that by the end of next year there'll be a pretty hard line between 5.5e and 5e tables and most DMs are not going to let players mix and match stuff. [/QUOTE]

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