D&D (2024) The impending mess that will be backwards compatibility

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

At that point, editions of d&d is not helpful as a guide to what is compatible and what not. So why not just use the "official" name and stop calling it differently in different threads...

What is the "official" name?

 

[UngeheuerLich]

What is the "official" name?

It was OneD&D. Now it is Revised5e.

 

[Cadence]

It was OneD&D. Now it is Revised5e.

Revised5e feels like it would work fine this time for me if they keep it. My only question is what they'll call it the time after. (ReReDnD would give a pretty famous name anyway).

 

[mamba]

It feels like if they call these core books anything easily abbreviatable besides just 5e or just D&D then it will probably be adopted. Could be a year, or revised, or edition or..

D&D 24 for the new, and D&D 14 for the old books

 

[Vaalingrade]

What is the "official" name?

5e is officially just Dungeons and Dragons. 1D&D is the codename for the initiative to revise the current rules. It's only when promising that 1D&D will still be 5e that WotC accepted defeat that 5e was D&D 5e and not the only D&D.

 

[Cadence]

5e is officially just Dungeons and Dragons. 1D&D is the codename for the initiative to revise the current rules. It's only when promising that 1D&D will still be 5e that WotC accepted defeat that 5e was D&D 5e and not the only D&D.

I mean, they have 5th edition on the back of the core books, so they conceded a little already.

 

[Pedantic]

I think 3.5 is really the problem here. They already set a pattern for what happens when you release a revised version of the current game, and I just can't imagine we'll be having discussions where we discuss "3.5 and R5 both involved changes to earlier cover systems from 3.0 and 5e." Just the weight of historical precedent will push the discussion toward 5.5.

And as always, the very idea of releasing a new D&D that isn't versioned is of course ridiculous. We will always need terms to discuss the various versions.

 

[Digdude]

Do you think there will be a game out there run once it comes out that has a 2014 normal fighter playing alongside a 2024 fighter that has access to mastery and all the fun toys in the new weapons list? For me that's the gauge if it's really backwards compatible.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

5e is officially just Dungeons and Dragons. 1D&D is the codename for the initiative to revise the current rules. It's only when promising that 1D&D will still be 5e that WotC accepted defeat that 5e was D&D 5e and not the only D&D.

Then we're gonna need another label. Even if they're compatible, 1D&D and 5e look to be different enough that they won't play quite the same. So we need labels to differentiate them so that it's clear which game we're talking about.

 

[mamba]

Do you think there will be a game out there run once it comes out that has a 2014 normal fighter playing alongside a 2024 fighter that has access to mastery and all the fun toys in the new weapons list? For me that's the gauge if it's really backwards compatible.

that is not measuring compatibility however, so as a gauge for that it is a failure.

Also why limit it to fighters