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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7667779" data-attributes="member: 996">When it comes to breaking editions, think of 3.x as a jar of nitroglycerin (it's a powerful system), 4e as a pane of glass ('transparency' yes), and 5e as a pile of sand (hard to say why it was piled up there).&nbsp; Play around with any of the three, and you'll have only fragments of silica left when you're done - but you won't get cut up or blown to bits by the pile of sand.&nbsp; Wet it down, mold it into some new shapes, stomp on it.&nbsp; It'll still be a perfectly good pile of sand.&nbsp;Yes, if there's a 2e or 3.x&nbsp; - 4e or 1e or Spawn of Fshawn - resource that's already exactly what you want, just use it, no need to homebrew.&nbsp; But, if you're going to homebrew, 5e's a pretty good choice.&nbsp; It shouldn't really even be that un-familiar if you've been around the block with both 2e and 3.5 enough times.&nbsp;Proceed on the assumption it's the former - I doubt you'll notice balance getting any worse.&nbsp; Balance in 5e, like in 1e, is primarily provided situationally, by the DM.&nbsp; If you notice one PC miserably 'behind' the others in some sense, you highlight his specialty or even just up and give him a nice magic item to make him 'just better.'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7667779, member: 996"] When it comes to breaking editions, think of 3.x as a jar of nitroglycerin (it's a powerful system), 4e as a pane of glass ('transparency' yes), and 5e as a pile of sand (hard to say why it was piled up there). Play around with any of the three, and you'll have only fragments of silica left when you're done - but you won't get cut up or blown to bits by the pile of sand. Wet it down, mold it into some new shapes, stomp on it. It'll still be a perfectly good pile of sand. Yes, if there's a 2e or 3.x - 4e or 1e or Spawn of Fshawn - resource that's already exactly what you want, just use it, no need to homebrew. But, if you're going to homebrew, 5e's a pretty good choice. It shouldn't really even be that un-familiar if you've been around the block with both 2e and 3.5 enough times. Proceed on the assumption it's the former - I doubt you'll notice balance getting any worse. Balance in 5e, like in 1e, is primarily provided situationally, by the DM. If you notice one PC miserably 'behind' the others in some sense, you highlight his specialty or even just up and give him a nice magic item to make him 'just better.' [/QUOTE]

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