D&D (2024) If WOTC announces that OneDnd will be called 6th edition and will be backwards compatible with fifth edition adventures and supplements What changes?

[aco175]

I will likely still but the new books and play that edition. Maybe not the MM is backward compatible means that I can still use all the modified monsters I have already. Hopefully if someone comes to play at my table and only have the old books, they can still fit in enough.

 

[Clint_L]

That's the point of the OP. Is there a functional difference between WotC calling it OneDnD or 6th Ed?

I mean, they could call it "potato" and it will still be what it is: an update of 5e.

 

[Morrus]

That's the point of the OP. Is there a functional difference between WotC calling it OneDnD or 6th Ed?

There's a marketing difference. Calling it 6E will reduce 5E sales in the meantime.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That's the point of the OP. Is there a functional difference between WotC calling it OneDnD or 6th Ed?

I would give them a little more respect for their honesty, and maybe 6e would end up on it's own forum once released so it doesn't get conflated with 5e. That'd be cool.

 

[Clint_L]

I suspect no one making these threads is an active user of DnDBeyond. That's the future of D&D, and they aren't going to suddenly make all your stuff obsolete. Books don't get added without being digitally interlinked with everything else on the site.

 

[bedir than]

That's the point of the OP. Is there a functional difference between WotC calling it OneDnD or 6th Ed?

Yes, as One D&D is the equal of D&D Next, not 5e. It's a project broader than the playtest and not the name of the edition (which I expect to eventually be 5e revised)

 

[Clint_L]

Yes, as One D&D is the equal of D&D Next, not 5e. It's a project broader than the playtest and not the name of the edition (which I expect to eventually be 5e revised)

They've already announced, months ago, that they are dropping editions altogether. The game will just be "D&D."

 

[bedir than]

They've already announced, months ago, that they are dropping editions altogether. The game will just be "D&D."

I expect the 2024 PHB to say "revised" and or "updated"

 

[Bill Zebub]

I would give them a little more respect for their honesty, and maybe 6e would end up on it's own forum once released so it doesn't get conflated with 5e. That'd be cool.

I don't think it's "dishonest" of them to have a different definition of "edition" than yours.

 

[mamba]

Nothing changes, I buy and run the same stuff - assuming it remains backwards compatible, like you said