Editing One D&D (section)

==Backwards compatibility==
In numerous interviews, the WOTC team repeatedly said that One D&D stuff would be backwards compatible with old 5e stuff. This was likely told to the public to prevent a massive edition war and D&D exodus. WOTC doesn't want the players to think it will be 6e and suffer a repeat of [[D&D 4e|4th edition]], after all. 

In the interim, will it actually be compatible with 5th edition? Well, rather than thinking about it as jumping from 3e to 4e, a jump from 3e to 3.5e would be a better comparison. For player options, 3.5 was much better and more desirable than 3. 3e stuff was still usable, but 3.5 was an upgrade, and so it seems that OneD&D will do the same thing. OneD&D's goal seems to be revamping character creation and making minor tweaks to the mechanics to give the system some much needed freshness. Of course, right now most releases are just first drafts, so there is a lot to criticize before the final release.

On the adventure side, since 5e isn't a very technical terminology-heavy game, often just pointing the DM to the rulebook about how to resolve a situation will do. It is highly unlikely that anything in an adventure book would break, unless stuff like the orc statblock or the stunned condition or Dexterity Saving Throws are no longer in the game. We'll see in time.