D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e

[SlyFlourish]

I listened to many of @SlyFlourish episodes about mixing and matching the different 5Es. I also listened to this panel. I kinda long for a "one true version" instead of the mess we have now.
I have a couple players who love A5e player options. I want to use the minions from Flee Mortals. Others want 2014. Then I could use like 3 different encounter building rules and never know what level of challenge to expect.
Then I run old adventures and they're not quite right.
"Mess" is right. I don't want to carry a dozen books or reference a score of PDFs to do my prep. I don't see this as a good thing.

You don't have to use all of them all at the same time. If you know what monsters you're going to use, you can just use those for the session you're running. If you have players with a mix of characters, they each can use their own PHB.

Just because it can be a mess doesn't mean it has to be. My Tales of the Valiant game is just Tales of the Valiant with the three core books (two really, the GMG is a nice to have).

We get to decide how much of a mess it is and how much we focus on one system.

 

[bedir than]

We get to decide how much of a mess it is and how much we focus on one system.

I've been tempted to use 2014 Inspiration and Black Flag's Luck