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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8643525" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Backwards compatibility is an odd thing.&nbsp; At first, you think &quot;well of course, why wouldn't you?&quot;.&nbsp; But from a business standpoint, you don't really want this, since then you won't be able to sell people all new books!Like, 1e/2e, the rules were basically similar enough that you could keep using old content, though 2e found ways to make you want to buy and use newer content instead of old content, and the way many 1e books were written helped this along, as they could seem archaic and inscrutable to players newer to the hobby (not that 2e books didn't have their own level of arcane inscrutability, mind you!).I think what we'll see is more like 3.5/Pathfinder 1.&nbsp; It's basically similar, but there'll be a lot of new concepts that will make you have to do some work to use older things at the &quot;newer, sleeker, sexier, more advanced&quot; 5e+ tables.Toss in the usual sentiment of our disposable economy of &quot;it's new so it must be better&quot; and I'm sure newer players will scoff at 5e books anyways.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8643525, member: 6877472"] Backwards compatibility is an odd thing. At first, you think "well of course, why wouldn't you?". But from a business standpoint, you don't really want this, since then you won't be able to sell people all new books! Like, 1e/2e, the rules were basically similar enough that you could keep using old content, though 2e found ways to make you want to buy and use newer content instead of old content, and the way many 1e books were written helped this along, as they could seem archaic and inscrutable to players newer to the hobby (not that 2e books didn't have their own level of arcane inscrutability, mind you!). I think what we'll see is more like 3.5/Pathfinder 1. It's basically similar, but there'll be a lot of new concepts that will make you have to do some work to use older things at the "newer, sleeker, sexier, more advanced" 5e+ tables. Toss in the usual sentiment of our disposable economy of "it's new so it must be better" and I'm sure newer players will scoff at 5e books anyways. [/QUOTE]

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