D&D 5E What Should We Call Next/5e

[Jester David]

Barnes & Noble has posted pre-orders for the PHB and Starter Set, labeled as just "D&D".
Which is something WotC and Mike Mearls talked about doing.

There are already two versions of the game called "Dungeons & Dragons", which we refer to as "Original" and "Basic" to differentiate between each other, and distinguish between editions and the brand as a whole.
A unique name is handy for narrowing lists of products when browsing online, identifying the edition in catalogues, searching through Convention events, and even tagging forum posts. Even posting LFG ads might be awkward. If you mention you're looking for "one more for your D&D campaign" the very first question asked will be "what edition?"

What should we call this edition?

Should it be considered the 5th edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons? (And hope the follow-up isn't called 5th Edition) Or is it the 6th version/Edition of Basic Dungeons & Dragons? Should we just keep calling it "Next"?
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A possible compromise I've seen is dropping the term "edition" and just calling in D&D5.And since depending on how you classify "versions" there are somewhere between 8-11 "versions" of D&D out there, so we could easily call it D&D 10. Or... D&D X.

 

[Shadowsoul]

5th edition Dungeons and Dragons

 

[Plaguescarred]

Dungeons and Dragons for me doesn't mean BD&D or OD&D. Its the game in itself, which has multiple versions. When people refer to any of these specifically, they usually use their version of what i can see.

But whatever WoTC calls it, people will end up referring it to as 5E anyway.

 

[Morrus]

It'll get called "5E". No question about it.

 

[Blackwarder]

I picked Shirley, because Shirley is nice.

Warder

 

[Plaguescarred]

Also, i doubt anything other than Dungeons & Dragons will be on the cover even if they end up calling it 5E.

 

[GX.Sigma]

Between D&D nerds it will be 5e.

When I talk about it with non-D&D nerds, I'll call it "the new version of D&D," or "the latest edition of D&D."

 

[MoonSong]

I don't know "Next" has a catchy thing to it (and is one syllable shorter than 5e or 5th e)

 

[Mark CMG]

It'll get called "5E". No question about it.

Yup. That's also my contention.

 

[Jester David]

Also, i doubt anything other than Dungeons & Dragons will be on the cover even if they end up calling it 5E.

Both 3.0 and 4e were both just "D&D" on the cover, but still had an edition.