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<blockquote data-quote="Nathaniel Lee" data-source="post: 8939907" data-attributes="member: 6948827"><p>I don't think that we can say they're the same at all there. We of course don't know <em>exactly</em> what Black Flag's classes are going to be like, but I'd be very surprised if they took anything like One D&D's approach and completely changed the progression structure. Assuming that they do stick with how things work in 5E, then at least from the perspective of subclass compatibility, Black Flag is objectively more compatible than One D&D is.</p><p></p><p>One D&D's "compatibility" with existing subclasses is questionable. Sure, you can go ahead and take their advice and just progress as you normally would if you were using a 5E class, but we all know that's not how it's going to work in the actual final release: that's just all they tell us for us to be able to even try to playtest anything. Those subclasses will be keyed to the structure of the new classes, and in some cases, we're seeing dramatic changes in number of subclass feature slots as well as where they appear in the level progression.</p><p></p><p>When they release the new rules, it's in all likelihood going to be a choice of using what few subclasses they provide in the initial books or leveraging some sort of conversion guide to fit the square peg of the 5E subclasses into the round hole of the 6E ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nathaniel Lee, post: 8939907, member: 6948827"] I don't think that we can say they're the same at all there. We of course don't know [I]exactly[/I] what Black Flag's classes are going to be like, but I'd be very surprised if they took anything like One D&D's approach and completely changed the progression structure. Assuming that they do stick with how things work in 5E, then at least from the perspective of subclass compatibility, Black Flag is objectively more compatible than One D&D is. One D&D's "compatibility" with existing subclasses is questionable. Sure, you can go ahead and take their advice and just progress as you normally would if you were using a 5E class, but we all know that's not how it's going to work in the actual final release: that's just all they tell us for us to be able to even try to playtest anything. Those subclasses will be keyed to the structure of the new classes, and in some cases, we're seeing dramatic changes in number of subclass feature slots as well as where they appear in the level progression. When they release the new rules, it's in all likelihood going to be a choice of using what few subclasses they provide in the initial books or leveraging some sort of conversion guide to fit the square peg of the 5E subclasses into the round hole of the 6E ones. [/QUOTE]
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