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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8752930" data-attributes="member: 20564">Backwards compatible means to me that I can continue to use all the old stuff that hasn't been replaced with the new stuff.&nbsp; It's a lot looser than &quot;compatible&quot; which implies both ways, all the old stuff and all the new stuff can play together, and &quot;fully compatible&quot;, which is even a higher degree.Things will change from the playtest, but even with what they have right now there are a few places that aren't backwards compatible.&nbsp; Say I wanted to play an wood elf tribesman.&nbsp; I pick the new Elf race, but want the feature from the old Outlander background so I pick that.&nbsp; Because ability scores modifiers have been moved, I end up with a character with a +2/+1 anywhere.But this is a playtest, an errata to the 2014PHB could resolve this.&nbsp; But we've only seen a bit of the playtest, I expect there to be other issues that come up.From the little I've seen, this seems like it will be a half-edition shift like 3.0 and 3.5, and while that promised backwards compatibility there were some jagged edges and over 80% of the additional-book content for 3.0 later had it redo and republished as 3.5 content.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8752930, member: 20564"] Backwards compatible means to me that I can continue to use all the old stuff that hasn't been replaced with the new stuff. It's a lot looser than "compatible" which implies both ways, all the old stuff and all the new stuff can play together, and "fully compatible", which is even a higher degree. Things will change from the playtest, but even with what they have right now there are a few places that aren't backwards compatible. Say I wanted to play an wood elf tribesman. I pick the new Elf race, but want the feature from the old Outlander background so I pick that. Because ability scores modifiers have been moved, I end up with a character with a +2/+1 anywhere. But this is a playtest, an errata to the 2014PHB could resolve this. But we've only seen a bit of the playtest, I expect there to be other issues that come up. From the little I've seen, this seems like it will be a half-edition shift like 3.0 and 3.5, and while that promised backwards compatibility there were some jagged edges and over 80% of the additional-book content for 3.0 later had it redo and republished as 3.5 content. [/QUOTE]

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