D&D (2024) "One D&D": do you like this name for the 2024 edition?

[Enevhar Aldarion]

This. WotC desperately wants to put numbered editions to bed, but we were all calling “D&D Next” 5e from the beginning of the playtest. Same think will surely happen with “One D&D” as soon as people settle on whether to call it 6e or 5.5e. And inevitably, WotC will have to call it that, because that’s what the fans will know it as.

After seeing another comment on it, I think I am going with 5E Revised, since it is supposed to stay fully backward compatible with all the adventures and other material. Other games have gotten away with the Revised tag, rather than doing a full edition change, so I think it will work here too, whether WotC likes it or not. lol

 

[SakanaSensei]

At the end of the day they're just going to call it Dungeons and Dragons, like they've done all the time with 5E.

I think they're spending a lot of time and effort skirting around saying this is a new edition with math that should mostly be backwards compatible (with monsters and adventures, at least), because it may as well be 6E with some of the rules adjustments like how crits work and the like. They REALLY want people to be in the headspace of "this isn't that big a difference! No change!" while they actually get under the hood and make some (very necessary, imo) changes to make the game better designed.

 

[overgeeked]

Terrible name. Some marketer came up with it.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

 

[Ixal]

As the dissenting voice I will say, I like the clear "no more editions, just tools" message they are going for.

Until sales drop, then they will launch the next edition.

 

[deganawida]

I don't like it. OD&D is taken. 1eD&D is taken. All this will do is cause consumer confusion.

The cynic in me says that’s a feature, not a bug.

 

[Cadence]

You heard it here first: 2030 edition will be "Two D&D"

Now I want the Count from Sesame Street on the cover holding up a number of fingers equal to which one it is...

 

[beancounter]

I'm not a fan of the name. And as someone mentioned above, it's going to make searching for content specific to this "not an edition edition" a pain.

 

[JEB]

Well one thing's clear from the FAQ: they absolutely will not refer to it as a new edition. They will call it anything else: new version, new generation, next evolution, new revision...

Yeah, reading that FAQ, I wonder how many rewrites they went through, as careful as they are to avoid saying it's a new edition. And yet, you can still tell that there's "fifth edition" and "One D&D" and they're not the same thing...

 

[Azzy]

"One D&D": do you like this name for the 2024 edition?

Ugh. It's just a "code name" for the playtest—same as with D&D Next. It's not going to be the name of the 2024 edition. They will likely just refer to it as "5e, revised" or some such when differentiating it from from the prior editions.

But, yes, it's a stupid name.