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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6089032" data-attributes="member: 22424">In twenty five years of playing, the only edition where we didn't preface the campaign with discussions about which supplements would be allowed was 4th Edition, and that only because the DM took the &quot;anything goes&quot; approach. Honestly, 5e's modular approach is really little more than official acknowledgement of what has been true forever.As far as publishing supplements and adventures for it: I broadly agree that it may be problematic. What I think we'll see is WotC defining a fairly clear &quot;standard game&quot;. Thereafter, more adventures and supplements will support exactly that set of options (and only that set of options). Some few may provide sidebars for adapting the material if you use &quot;module X&quot; for some subset of the available modules. And, of course, in some cases the supplement will introduce a new &quot;module Y&quot;, and will therefore be designed for &quot;standard + Y&quot; only.In time, it may become apparently that very few people use one of the modules assumed by the standard game, or that the majority add some popular module to the standard game. Either way, I expect to see WotC's support to gradually drift to match this preference, creating a new de facto &quot;standard game&quot;, which they would then support going forward.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6089032, member: 22424"] In twenty five years of playing, the only edition where we [i]didn't[/i] preface the campaign with discussions about which supplements would be allowed was 4th Edition, and that only because the DM took the "anything goes" approach. Honestly, 5e's modular approach is really little more than official acknowledgement of what has been true forever. As far as publishing supplements and adventures for it: I broadly agree that it may be problematic. What I think we'll see is WotC defining a fairly clear "standard game". Thereafter, more adventures and supplements will support exactly that set of options (and only that set of options). Some few may provide sidebars for adapting the material if you use "module X" for some subset of the available modules. And, of course, in some cases the supplement will introduce a new "module Y", and will therefore be designed for "standard + Y" only. In time, it may become apparently that very few people use one of the modules assumed by the standard game, or that the majority add some popular module to the standard game. Either way, I expect to see WotC's support to gradually drift to match this preference, creating a new de facto "standard game", which they would then support going forward. [/QUOTE]

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