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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nathaniel Lee" data-source="post: 8937670" data-attributes="member: 6948827">I get the feeling that Black Flag is going to be more backwards compatible, if not 100% backwards compatible, with 5E than One D&D is.The goals of the projects are quite different in that One D&D is less about making something that can actually work with old sourcebooks (the compatibility is only with the adventures and campaign guides, not the actual mechanics) and building towards their idea of the future of the game. By contrast, Black Flag is more about building more or less a tweaked 5E that they can call their own and continue to build off of with their new stuff as well as maintaining their old stuff, free from the "shackles" of Wizards and the OGL.The playtest document already indicates that you can just use the exact materials out of the existing sourcebooks around classes, spells, etc. and that the way to make those more aligned with what they'll eventually release as classes is to have characters choose a feat/talent at 1st level. I really don't see them changing anything fundamental about the classes, at least as far as progression structure. That's the biggest problem with One D&D: existing subclasses aren't going to be a straightforward conversion, if even viably convertible at all. With Black Flag, it sounds like it's going to be plug and play, with the base classes potentially just getting a little boost in power.Holding out hope that my instinct is right here and we'll see that level of compatibility, because I feel One D&D feels more disconnected from 5E than 3.5E did from 3E, and I don't really want something that veers to closely to a 6E.</blockquote>

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