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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8753092" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>But how reasonable are you going to be?</p><p></p><p>Case in point... there looks to be a new condition being added to the game-- Slowed. If that sticks around in the 2024 game, we will have every single book prior to those 2024 books not referencing that condition at all. There could very well be countless times in all these books where creatures will suffer from things that cause them to be slowed down, but none of them will impart the Slowed condition (even though they now probably should.) Are you going to say therefore that none of these books are backwards compatible? Or are you going to be reasonable and yes, have to put in a <em>slight</em> amount of work and make the decision to say these creatures all will suffer the Slowed condition so that it matches the game play of 2024 (if that's indeed what you feel should happen)?</p><p></p><p>And this is just one rule change. There are going to be hundreds of others. Tiny rules that will be different in 2024 that will not be able to be retroactively reflected in any of the books up to this point because maybe just terms have changed. Now if we are lucky... these rules differences will be so minor that it will take <em>almost no effort</em> to just toss off a quick DM call when using an older book to align it to the new paradigm. But by definition that is going to be <em>some</em> work. A very small amount yes... but we've already seen people here stating they don't want to do ANY work. And if that's the case... then I think you might as well just accept you're being lied to right now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8753092, member: 7006"] But how reasonable are you going to be? Case in point... there looks to be a new condition being added to the game-- Slowed. If that sticks around in the 2024 game, we will have every single book prior to those 2024 books not referencing that condition at all. There could very well be countless times in all these books where creatures will suffer from things that cause them to be slowed down, but none of them will impart the Slowed condition (even though they now probably should.) Are you going to say therefore that none of these books are backwards compatible? Or are you going to be reasonable and yes, have to put in a [I]slight[/I] amount of work and make the decision to say these creatures all will suffer the Slowed condition so that it matches the game play of 2024 (if that's indeed what you feel should happen)? And this is just one rule change. There are going to be hundreds of others. Tiny rules that will be different in 2024 that will not be able to be retroactively reflected in any of the books up to this point because maybe just terms have changed. Now if we are lucky... these rules differences will be so minor that it will take [I]almost no effort[/I] to just toss off a quick DM call when using an older book to align it to the new paradigm. But by definition that is going to be [I]some[/I] work. A very small amount yes... but we've already seen people here stating they don't want to do ANY work. And if that's the case... then I think you might as well just accept you're being lied to right now. [/QUOTE]
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