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All of the below looks extremly backwards compatible and I hate 5e. 5e is barely a system and has nearly no kind of mechanical spine, so nothing listed below breaks any sort of compatibility with it.
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I disagree.
Everything is so "Revised" that new core books will need to be bought, and adventure material will need to be converted.
Yes, 3.5 was technically
"fully backwards compatible" to 3.0.
But the practical differences were enough that most groups just moved over to 3.5 outright.
... I don’t see anything woke in the 21 page playtest document. It reads very similar to the 5e PHB.
It's a rules reference playtest doc. They're not so stupid as to get on their high horse in that...
I give Ray Winniger credit - he's far more savvy than the sparkletrolls on twitter.
The woke will be in the marketing and play culture that WotC D&D is cultivating. They will continue to do what they have been doing and inserting little bit more woke elements here and there in the lore for supplements and adventure paths.
The slow lobster boil will continue.
And while I do believe many of the people at WotC do in fact hate me because of my political choices, I do not think they hate TTRPGs or want to sink the hobby.
They will sink D&D by default because they hate the culture and generation of gamers that created the hobby, and the underlying mythology that D&D was originally based on.