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<blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 9432056" data-attributes="member: 55680">Yup, modules are by far the easiest thing to convert from one edition to another. Like I said upthread I once ran a 0e adventure for two 5e players converting a few things (like saving throws) on the fly but leaving basically everything else intact. Level drain scared the crap out of my players and was great fun (I let them get greater restoration castings in the town to heal level drain). If you can run 0e adventures with 5e, not reason you can't run 5e adventures with 5.5e.For me, I expect a lot of 5e pbh content to go out the window first, with a lot of 5e splatbook content slowly petering out in 5.5e tables over the next two years with 5e adventures getting used the longest. I'm wondering what will happen with the 5e holdouts and how many of them there'll be. There won't be the same kind of backlash as there was to 4e (5.5e is too conservative to that so instead of incandescent rage there's more &quot;why bother?&quot;) and there does't look like there'll be the same dominant third party 5e successor like PF 1e succeeded 3.5e.My bet is on a lot of smaller third party spin-off games slowly slowly chipping away at 5.*e dominance much in the way that a lot of third party d20 core games started to proliferate in the 3.5e-era when fewer third party publishers were putting out supplements to 3.5e and more and more were doing their own d20 spin-off games, but with a lot more 5e holdouts than there ever were 3e holdouts, but how many is anyone's guess.Although completely mixing and matching stuff is certainly POSSIBLE with 5e and 5.5e I just don't see it being something that most DMs allow much of after we get some 5.5e splatbooks. I certainly see any talk of backwards compatibility being completely shelved come 2026 or so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daztur, post: 9432056, member: 55680"] Yup, modules are by far the easiest thing to convert from one edition to another. Like I said upthread I once ran a 0e adventure for two 5e players converting a few things (like saving throws) on the fly but leaving basically everything else intact. Level drain scared the crap out of my players and was great fun (I let them get greater restoration castings in the town to heal level drain). If you can run 0e adventures with 5e, not reason you can't run 5e adventures with 5.5e. For me, I expect a lot of 5e pbh content to go out the window first, with a lot of 5e splatbook content slowly petering out in 5.5e tables over the next two years with 5e adventures getting used the longest. I'm wondering what will happen with the 5e holdouts and how many of them there'll be. There won't be the same kind of backlash as there was to 4e (5.5e is too conservative to that so instead of incandescent rage there's more "why bother?") and there does't look like there'll be the same dominant third party 5e successor like PF 1e succeeded 3.5e. My bet is on a lot of smaller third party spin-off games slowly slowly chipping away at 5.*e dominance much in the way that a lot of third party d20 core games started to proliferate in the 3.5e-era when fewer third party publishers were putting out supplements to 3.5e and more and more were doing their own d20 spin-off games, but with a lot more 5e holdouts than there ever were 3e holdouts, but how many is anyone's guess. Although completely mixing and matching stuff is certainly POSSIBLE with 5e and 5.5e I just don't see it being something that most DMs allow much of after we get some 5.5e splatbooks. I certainly see any talk of backwards compatibility being completely shelved come 2026 or so. [/QUOTE]

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