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[TwoSix]

Right. That's why I use 5.5e. Not the same name, and virtually no confusion. People understand that 5.5 is halfway from 5 to 6.

To be fair, we don't know we're halfway to 6. What if the games continues to chug along, and they just publish another 5e revision in 2034?

 

[DEFCON 1]

This is one of those arguments that is going to be solved and then forgotten about shortly after the books get released.

 

[Echohawk]

This is one of those arguments that is going to be solved and then forgotten about shortly after the books get released.

And then unearthed and quoted from in April 2157 by some distant descendant during a similar debate about what to call the revision of 15th Edition!

 

[payn]

You're flatly wrong.

That's exactly what happened to me when I bought D&D for the first time. AD&D 2E had just come out. That wasn't just "not a secret", it was downright advertised - but I wasn't already inside the hobby, I wasn't reading magazines or browsing forums. I went straight into a Games Workshop store (as was the fashion at the time) and bought "AD&D" - and a couple of weeks later when I showed it to a friend he was like "You've bought the wrong edition!" - so I got an early taste of edition warring!

Anyway, this still happens. Absolutely normal people, new to the hobby DO walk into shops and just pick up "D&D". This is absolutely a thing and pretending it isn't shows that you're out-of-touch with how the a significant proportion of people got into this game in 5E, which wasn't through deep knowledge and careful research, but just becoming aware of D&D and going and buying it. The first new-to-5E group I DM'd for had done exactly what you're denying happens! They didn't really understand what they'd bought and through a friend of a friend I was asked to come and DM for them one time to get them started.

AD&D 2E really?

 

[payn]

This is one of those arguments that is going to be solved and then forgotten about shortly after the books get released.

I hear they plan to hire town criers and newsboys to stand outside FLGS and scream out to folks so they are not confused.

"Hear it here; hear it here 2014 5E PHB is no longer the current edition, but 2024 PHB 5E is. WOTC too evil to call it 5.5E to alleviate the confusion. None of shop keeps will have any idea how to help, nor have any of your friends ever heard anything about this. You surely dont have access to all the info you need in the palm of your hand. Here it here; here it here...."

 

[payn]

Uh, well that's exactly what I did when I bought the 2014 books.

But I was out of the hobby for a long time (a couple decades).

But, yeah, I suppose most people who are completely outside the gaming community, who hears about D&D somewhere, would google it and probably end up at D&D Beyond or Amazon and just buy the newest version.

Yes, exactly.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

And then unearthed and quoted from in April 2157 by some distant descendant during a similar debate about what to call the revision of 15th Edition!

Frankly, if literally anything I've ever written lasts for over 100 years, I'll consider myself extremely fortunate.

 

[Echohawk]

Frankly, if literally anything I've ever written lasts for over 100 years, I'll consider myself extremely fortunate.

This is the information age, so don't rule it out. Of course, in my case, I'm betting that what survives won't be one of my painstakingly researched and written contributions to the development of national ICT policy and legislation but some random argument about D&D monster continuity between editions. Although, come to think of it, I'm remarkably okay with that

 

[EzekielRaiden]

This is the information age, so don't rule it out. Of course, in my case, I'm betting that what survives won't be one of my painstakingly researched and written contributions to the development of national ICT policy and legislation but some random argument about D&D monster continuity between editions. Although, come to think of it, I'm remarkably okay with that

I find the information age has made information more..."volatile," I guess? Some things can linger forever and ever, unto the ends of the earth. And other things can disappear in a puff of smoke, never to be seen again, only a few years after their creation.

I lost a lot of work I put into stuff on the old AvidGamers platform, back in the day, and most of it is unrecoverable because crawlers from the Internet Archive weren't allowed to index specific boards/sites, just the core site (which wasn't much of anything.)

 

[Ruin Explorer]

AD&D 2E really?

Yeah baby, I got edition-warred just a few weeks into playing D&D, all the way back in 1989!

Luckily all children possess the natural spirit of Edition Warriors so I immediately (and correctly imho) assumed he was wrong, and 2nd edition was better, and so just defended it - I even picked up some pro-2E arguments from somewhere - maybe a copy of Dragon or something? I started buying that almost immediately.