D&D (2024) WotC is right to avoid the word "edition."

[Parmandur]

Me no but I know people who would.

This isn’t errata either. It is whole sale changes of rules and concepts.

New printing of a type-set getting small updates is errata (literally correcting errors from a previous printing).

Having to make a new type-set is a new addition.

 

[HammerMan]

New printing of a type-set getting small updates is errata (literally correcting errors from a previous printing).

Having to make a new type-set is a new addition.

And again this is more edition and not anywhere near errata (unless the playtest bombs and they DO just go with updated errata)

 

[Parmandur]

And again this is more edition and not anywhere near errata (unless the playtest bombs and they DO just go with updated errata)

Yes, exactly. But they won't call it that because they abused the term so badly in the past. It is not helpful selling D&D Beyojd subscriptions.

 

[Lanefan]

Doesn't matter what WotC wants to call it; it's almost certainly going to end up being called 5.5e in the wild anyway, and they're stuck with that.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

And again this is more edition and not anywhere near errata (unless the playtest bombs and they DO just go with updated errata)

You can call it cnew edition" But we have seen a tiny fraction of the rules being updated.
And what I see is only a tiny fraction of characters heavily changed by those changes and in those cases I would speak of errata. The other characters as of now are largely unaffected and probably happy about easier rules.

 

[Parmandur]

Doesn't matter what WotC wants to call it; it's almost certainly going to end up being called 5.5e in the wild anyway, and they're stuck with that.

On the other hand, WotC marketing horse hockey worked well enough that theybgotnpeople to use the garbage "3.5" to this day. Don't count them out yet.

 

[bloodtide]

Well, maybe not "right"...but it sure is a marketing bussiness ploy. They don't want to put a big 6 on the books because then no one will buy the old 5 or less books. But, with no number they might get people to accidentally buy any book. Like a new gamer goes to books.com and knows her son wants a "dragons and dungeons " book. They have some (not 6E ) books(with no number), and see a bunch of 5E books. They might buy a bunch of 5, 4, 3, 2 or even 1 E D&D books "thinking" they can use their 6E books with them.

 

[Nikosandros]

On the other hand, WotC marketing horse hockey worked well enough that theybgotnpeople to use the garbage "3.5" to this day. Don't count them out yet.

They mainly got people to call it 3.5, because they wrote it right on the cover of the manuals.

 

[Jack Daniel]

They mainly got people to call it 3.5, because they wrote it right on the cover of the manuals.

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But they wrote it on the cover of the manuals because that's what everyone on the WizO forums was already calling it in the runup to the release.

Since the majority of gamers at the time had no idea how version numbers worked, they just called it "v3.5" because it was already in everybody's heads that it would be "edition 3½."

 

[MockingBird]

In the forward of the updated 2e (I think phb) didn't Zeb Cook call it 2.5?

Edit: nope, and Steve Winter wrote the forwards. Carry on.