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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7667844" data-attributes="member: 5100"><p>Having lived/played through the 1E => 2E change, that didn't break much existing stuff. Even if an NPC was statted for 1E, you could use him in a 2E game. I hated the 2E Ranger, so we used the 1E Ranger all the way through. No issues at all. The 1E NPC classes in Dragon worked in a 2E game. You could apply many 2E kits to their 1E class.</p><p></p><p>3E and 4E broke huge amounts of stuff. That isn't the same thing as saying the rules were bad. They were just substantive shifts and really demanded an update to things. In many cases, there wasn't so much a conversion path as there was a rebuild path.</p><p></p><p>5E is a weird middle ground of compatibility. It actually seems to mostly work for at least 1E through 3.5E (I don't have any 4E stuff to compare, anymore). It still takes some effort, but it isn't always a complete rebuild.</p><p></p><p>We're going to have a 6E, whether next year or in 2030. If it comes in the next few years and is a 2E => 3E jump, then I get not publishing any new core setting books. What we've got works well enough to make the opportunity cost inappropriate.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, if 5E is really the "evergreen" edition, including the idea that 5E => 6E will look more like the 1E => 2E upgrade, then I'd really like to just have an "evergreen" setting book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 7667844, member: 5100"] Having lived/played through the 1E => 2E change, that didn't break much existing stuff. Even if an NPC was statted for 1E, you could use him in a 2E game. I hated the 2E Ranger, so we used the 1E Ranger all the way through. No issues at all. The 1E NPC classes in Dragon worked in a 2E game. You could apply many 2E kits to their 1E class. 3E and 4E broke huge amounts of stuff. That isn't the same thing as saying the rules were bad. They were just substantive shifts and really demanded an update to things. In many cases, there wasn't so much a conversion path as there was a rebuild path. 5E is a weird middle ground of compatibility. It actually seems to mostly work for at least 1E through 3.5E (I don't have any 4E stuff to compare, anymore). It still takes some effort, but it isn't always a complete rebuild. We're going to have a 6E, whether next year or in 2030. If it comes in the next few years and is a 2E => 3E jump, then I get not publishing any new core setting books. What we've got works well enough to make the opportunity cost inappropriate. On the other hand, if 5E is really the "evergreen" edition, including the idea that 5E => 6E will look more like the 1E => 2E upgrade, then I'd really like to just have an "evergreen" setting book. [/QUOTE]
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