It's not important, but that is my total experience (glazed eyes until people realize they can ignore them,) and what the Dara indicates. Notice how carefully they have rolled out and tested first Level Feats for two years a Ross's half a dozen products, tested in UA, before coming clean about a new Feats system. And based on Crawford's last report...first Level Feats with Background are a hit...unlike the 2014 approach. Yet still, it is compatible.
Background feats are already out in books. Books put out BEFORE the playtesting started. They've known for a long time that feats were hugely popular and why.
Yes, in books that were UA tested. For years, carefully. And that's my point here: the real change in OneD&D is already present in 5E as it stands: doing an overhaul of the Feats themselves is details, after the drift of the past few years design is standardized.
The CC and OGL say hi
That just means that you shouldn't believe them!The CC and OGL say hi
It's really not all that different.
Agreed. Nothing earth-shattering. Though the new Bard ability to heal as a reaction using inspiration is OP, IMO. But it's stuff like that - small things where the balance will need to be looked at.
I agree. And it was their announcement that they were intending to rectify the undermonetization of D&D pretty much cemented this for me. Over the course of the next few years I think D&D will be an overall worse experience for consumers as WotC revolves their business around squeezing customers as much as they can rather than having much concern for how good their product is. With any luck, I'll be shown to be wrong.
then any change by definition introduces an incompatibility, or am I missing something ?
Not exactly. A true addition to the game is compatible, because it lays over the older edition. If you're changing mechanics, though, you lose compatibility. For example the change to feats since it is in direct conflict with the default of no feats for 2014. The mechanics there are changing.
I am not sure I follow. 'Donating the future product' is how compatibility is maintained (and it is not the entire product, much like the SRD today is only a bare-bones PHB + DMG + MM)
Yeah. They edit the book in some way. So you are correct. At that point it does not matter if we call it 5.5e or 6e. I think this number is meaningless. It is important what is inside.
agreed, did not spell that out, since I specifically said change and do not consider an addition a change... so according to your logic you can have new feats / spells / items / ... but not change any existing ones without introducing incompatibilities then, correct ?
Sort of. We've been told that we can play the 2014 PCs along side the 2024 characters. The rules for 2014 characters can't change for that to be true. That means that there will be conflicts between the rules for 2014 characters and the ones for 2024 characters. They won't be compatible. For the other rules, you can replace them with new rules and if they work seamlessly then compatibility is preserved.
Looks up at the title of the forum that this post is is that says "One D&D (5.5E) & OGL v1.1" which is exactly "WotC 5e, pretty much."
Because there's a lot of other 5e out there, and WotC is demonstrably not the most quality stuff. Given the recent crisis, I would think that now is the best opportunity to give 3pps the attention they deserve.
