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Message: <blockquote data-quote="codo" data-source="post: 8866689" data-attributes="member: 94626">3rd edition and 5th edition are very different games.  3rd and 3.5 are much more complicated, and they have a lot more small fiddley pieces that interact with each other.  5e on the other hand involves fewer options, and the options you do choose tend to be larger and more self contained.  Look at feats.  What is 1 feat in 5E, in 3E will be a feat chain of 3 or 4 feats, each with its own class, skill, level, and other prerequisites. The reason that most people didn't really think that 3E 3PP books were backward compatible with 3.5 is that so many of them referred to specific detailed rules, like specific feats or class features, that had slightly changed between the editions.  This actually made a lot of them difficult to use.  Because 5E's rules are less interconnected, detailed, and fine-grained the 3PP books should be more compatible with 1D&D.  Truthfully I don't buy all that many 3PP book, but most of ones I have looked at mostly contain things like are campaign settings, adventures, a bunch of subclasses for existing classes, monsters, or specific detailed subsystems for things like base building, naval combat, or more detailed and varied weapons and the like.  Most of the books I have looked at seem like they should be more or less backward compatible with 1d&D.</blockquote>