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<blockquote data-quote="jsaving" data-source="post: 5994550" data-attributes="member: 16726">I play and enjoy every edition, and have been surprised by two things thus far.One is the amount of 4e content that's being retained.&nbsp; With most of my FLGS contacts telling me Pathfinder had reached parity with 4e even before Next was announced, I have to be honest and say &quot;uniting the editions&quot; felt like a thinly veiled ruse for rolling back the clock to 3e.&nbsp; But I've been pleasantly surprised to see many of my favorite 4e innovations -- things like themes, backgrounds, and at-wills -- have not only made the cut but are in some cases receiving even more emphasis in 5e than they did in 4e.&nbsp; While my 4e group still generally wishes Next weren't happening, they're starting to be convinced Next may be worth playing after all.The other surprise for me has been the huge amount of flavor that's being imported from 1e/2e.&nbsp; Those systems have fairly small though undoubtedly devoted fanbases compared to the 3e/Pathfinder and 4e crowds, and I initially suspected the Next team would do little more than import a few spell names from those editions.&nbsp; But the pre-3e guys I know keep telling me Next somehow &quot;feels like&quot; the edition they love, even though many of the mechanics used in Next are strikingly different from what they're used to seeing.On the whole, I think the Next team is doing a pretty good job pulling material from editions past and am beginning to think they may actually be able to pull this off -- which would be truly amazing considering how starkly divided the RPG fanbase had become.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jsaving, post: 5994550, member: 16726"] I play and enjoy every edition, and have been surprised by two things thus far. One is the amount of 4e content that's being retained. With most of my FLGS contacts telling me Pathfinder had reached parity with 4e even before Next was announced, I have to be honest and say "uniting the editions" felt like a thinly veiled ruse for rolling back the clock to 3e. But I've been pleasantly surprised to see many of my favorite 4e innovations -- things like themes, backgrounds, and at-wills -- have not only made the cut but are in some cases receiving even more emphasis in 5e than they did in 4e. While my 4e group still generally wishes Next weren't happening, they're starting to be convinced Next may be worth playing after all. The other surprise for me has been the huge amount of flavor that's being imported from 1e/2e. Those systems have fairly small though undoubtedly devoted fanbases compared to the 3e/Pathfinder and 4e crowds, and I initially suspected the Next team would do little more than import a few spell names from those editions. But the pre-3e guys I know keep telling me Next somehow "feels like" the edition they love, even though many of the mechanics used in Next are strikingly different from what they're used to seeing. On the whole, I think the Next team is doing a pretty good job pulling material from editions past and am beginning to think they may actually be able to pull this off -- which would be truly amazing considering how starkly divided the RPG fanbase had become. [/QUOTE]

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