D&D (2024) Jeremy Crawford: “We are releasing new editions of the books”

[Micah Sweet]

Anyone think calling it "Advanced" would have been on the table if Level Up hadn't used the tagline first?

No. WotC would have considered using the word "advanced" to be elitist. Besides, what's actually advanced about One? They are trying to make the game simpler and simpler.

 

[Faolyn]

Anyone think calling it "Advanced" would have been on the table if Level Up hadn't used the tagline first?

No. WotC would have considered using the word "advanced" to be elitist. Besides, what's actually advanced about One? They are trying to make the game simpler and simpler.

I don't think elitism has anything to do with it. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons already existed, after all; they wouldn't want to confuse people, make people think it's a throwback to 1e and 2e, or get people annoyed that they didn't go back to THAC0.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Using 'Advanced' to be elitist would have been the most D&D thing possible. Unless...

5e Advanced Rules as Written, I've been playing since 1855 Edition.

Oh, there's the stuff.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I don't think elitism has anything to do with it. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons already existed, after all; they wouldn't want to confuse people, make people think it's a throwback to 1e and 2e, or get people annoyed that they didn't go back to THAC0.

They're rewriting the corebooks without changing the edition name for the first time ever, so I still think confusing people is on the table.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Ok, so then you were just confirming the speculation that people are rejecting the numbers because the numbers make them feel bad?

I guess, but it wasn’t what @Lanefan was saying, to which my comment was a response. He was saying the numbers don’t make sense because people age into the older demographics, and I was explaining how growth of the younger demographics can cause the portion of the older demographics to shrink, even if the total number were to stay the same.

Right. The game has exploded in the last decade. Most of that explosions has not been new Baby Boomers, it’s been new younger players, many of whom are stretching the word “young” at this end of that decade of growth.

But also, there’s just more millennials and gen zs in the US than boomers and gen x.

So it is a new game but not a new game.

No, it’s just not a new game.

 

[Mecheon]

Hmmm... Maybe we should start calling the new Rules "Champion Edition"?

Does that make homebrew and Level Up like those weird occaisonal bootlegs that ended up inspiring the devs to make a faster version of the game?

 

[Azzy]

They're rewriting the corebooks without changing the edition name for the first time ever, so I still think confusing people is on the table.

We've already been over the fact that they plan to differentiate the rule sets by using the year.

I'm sure the general D&D playing populous will also have a nickname for it much like fans of the Hero System called the Fifth Rules Edition of that game "FREd" and when the revised Fifth Edition of the Hero System was released the fans refered to it variously as "ReFREd", "Fiver", or "5er".

 

[Remathilis]

Does that make homebrew and Level Up like those weird occaisonal bootlegs that ended up inspiring the devs to make a faster version of the game?

Absolutely. Your homebrew is Street Fighter 2 Rainbow edition.

 

[Faolyn]

They're rewriting the corebooks without changing the edition name for the first time ever, so I still think confusing people is on the table.

I mean, I would consider this to be 5.5, but they still seem insistent that it's just updated rules, like they just erratta'd stuff in.

 

[codo]

They're rewriting the corebooks without changing the edition name for the first time ever, so I still think confusing people is on the table.

Holmes, Moldvay, and Mentzer would like to have a word with you.