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[Azzy]

5e 2024 Players Handbook ...

24PH? 24ph?

24MM, 24mm

24DG, 24dg

5.14e PHB vs 5.24e PHB

 

[payn]

Me looking down on the rabble who refuse to call it 5.5E.

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[Yaarel]

5.14e PHB vs 5.24e PHB

That nomenclature doesnt bother me.

 

[Yaarel]

Was wondering where all these threads I hadn't seen before had come from. Good to see they'll finally be where they've belonged this whole time.


Well, given it is pretty much identical to the level of change seen with 3.5e....


5.5e. Just because Wizards is too fearful to name it sincerely, doesn't mean we cannot be honest with ourselves. It is 5th edition, revised. That's literally what they've done, they have revised and updated the classes and spells, tweaked a few rules, and added some new bells and whistles on top of the existing mechanical framework. While you can use older options, most of them will require at least a bit of adaptation, e.g. races and backgrounds work differently now, and frankly there's very little to zero reason to want to play the original versions of most of the classes (Warlock especially), unless you just hate change because it's change.

It's 5.5e.

I reserve judgment until I have the 2024 books in my hands.

So far, I see a lack of evidence to suggest a different edition number − as if implying a different gaming system.

The evolution of 5e is incremental from 2014 Players Handbook to Xanathars to Tashas to 2024. The growth is natural and slow.


The only reason 5e hasnt grown faster is because of an earlier business decision to publish as few books as possible.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Well, given it is pretty much identical to the level of change seen with 3.5e....

Idk when I see people try to justify this I always find myself thinking “that’s a lot more differences…”

5.5e. Just because Wizards is too fearful to name it sincerely, doesn't mean we cannot be honest with ourselves.

Trying to make it out to be about dishonesty and cowardice reflects poorly on the speaker.

It is 5th edition, revised. That's literally what they've done, they have revised and updated the classes and spells, tweaked a few rules, and added some new bells and whistles on top of the existing mechanical framework. While you can use older options, most of them will require at least a bit of adaptation, e.g. races and backgrounds work differently now, and frankly there's very little to zero reason to want to play the original versions of most of the classes (Warlock especially), unless you just hate change because it's change.

It's 5.5e.

None of that makes it a new edition (in the normal D&D sense).

Relative to the 50 year anniversary, sure it is.

Not even a little.

D&D Next existed before it became D&D 5e.
One D&D exists before becoming D&D 5.5e.

One D&D isn’t a product, so in this sense it doesn’t exist and never has.

There must somewhere be a law of behavior, like Poe's Law, Sturgeon's Law, and Godwin's Law, to the effect of:

When an analogy is used in a discussion, argument will continue along aspects of the analogy that are not relevant to the topic at hand.

Yeah, tbh IME it’s true more reliably than any of the others, too. To the point I often have doubts that examples or analogies or anything similar can even be useful.

 

[Parmandur]

D&D Next existed before it became D&D 5e.
One D&D exists before becoming D&D 5.5e.

WotC has never released any products called D&D Next, OneD&D, or 5.5 nor are they likely to at any time in the future.

Their plan to juat call the 2024 rules "D&D" means most people will call it "D&D" or "current D&D." Editions aren't something they want to highlight to split audiences at this point.

That WotC will succeed in controlling how people refer to their game is demonstrated by the very fact thar some people, after all these years, still think 3.5 made sense as a moniker.

 

[Shardstone]

THE COMMUNITY ONCE MORE IS REUNITED
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[Kurotowa]

WotC has never released any products called D&D Next, OneD&D, or 5.5 nor are they likely to at any time in the future.

Their plan to juat call the 2024 rules "D&D" means most people will call it "D&D" or "current D&D." Editions aren't something they want to highlight to aplot audiences at this point.

I suspect you're right. My newest thought is that the nomenclature for the current version of the game will just be "5e", and people will have to specify "pre-revision 5e" or "the PHB'14" when they want to reference the older books. Which they may not have a lot of reason to, honestly.

 

[Clint_L]

The whole editions nomenclature seems normal on this forum because we're mostly grognards (and proud of it!), but if you said "5e" to one of my kids in D&D club they would assume you were talking about a math problem or something. For most players, it's already just "D&D."

 

[payn]

THE COMMUNITY ONCE MORE IS REUNITED
LONG LIVE THE MERGER
LONG LIVE MERGE!!!!