D&D (2024) Do you plan to adopt D&D5.5One2024Redux?

[Hriston]

I just checked my PHB, it doesn't reference edition.

Check the back of your PHB. You might notice this blurb (bolding added):

When you're ready for even more, expand your adventures with the fifth edition Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual.​

 

[Parmandur]

What are any of us going to do?

Not sure what this post is about, but apropos of nothing, the Ignore feature is amazing, and can work wonders!

 

[Parmandur]

That’s how I and my groups played it. And I am far from casual (as were at least half of my players)

It wasn't always conscious, though: I started with 3.5, but my friends in retrospect had started with 2E as kids and were importing 2E performance practices...which is why 5E made so much visceral sense when I got it.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Check the back of your PHB. You might notice this blurb (bolding added):

When you're ready for even more, expand your adventures with the fifth edition Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual.​

Yes. WotC WANTED to get off the Edition Bandwagon last time, but much like a lot of their good ideas, it was met with too much resistance. They eventually capitulated and put those captions on the books. And, eventually, called it "fifth" in interviews and such.

Clearly they were hoping that proving their intent to keep the game moving incrementally forward without an overhaul would allow them to get away with it THIS time, and clearly results are mixed.

They've HAD to talk about 2024 in terms of "Fifth Edition" precisely because they have already had so much "confusion" and "outrage" over trying g to get away with just calling it "D&D" for the second time.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes. WotC WANTED to get off the Edition Bandwagon last time, but much like a lot of their good ideas, it was met with too much resistance. They eventually capitulated and put those captions on the books. And, eventually, called it "fifth" in interviews and such.

Clearly they were hoping that proving their intent to keep the game moving incrementally forward without an overhaul would allow them to get away with it THIS time, and clearly results are mixed.

They've HAD to talk about 2024 in terms of "Fifth Edition" precisely because they have already had so much "confusion" and "outrage" over trying g to get away with just calling it "D&D" for the second time.

They'll probably get it to stick the next go around, when the core audience will have been born between 2010 and 2022.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yes. WotC WANTED to get off the Edition Bandwagon last time, but much like a lot of their good ideas, it was met with too much resistance. They eventually capitulated and put those captions on the books. And, eventually, called it "fifth" in interviews and such.

Clearly they were hoping that proving their intent to keep the game moving incrementally forward without an overhaul would allow them to get away with it THIS time, and clearly results are mixed.

They've HAD to talk about 2024 in terms of "Fifth Edition" precisely because they have already had so much "confusion" and "outrage" over trying g to get away with just calling it "D&D" for the second time.

Or they could have admitted that they were making new books to replace the old ones.

 

[Oofta]

Or they could have admitted that they were making new books to replace the old ones.

They've done nothing but talk about the fact that they are making changes.

The changes are not radical, the intent is that you can mix and match. Whether people choose to replace their old books is something WOTC has no control over. Your old books will not self destruct.

You keep banging this drum that they're lying, I just don't see anything to back it up. The rules are a decade old, they could use a tuneup. Hence, new books.

 

[MockingBird]

Or they could have admitted that they were making new books to replace the old ones.

I'm not really understanding why you seem to think WotC is trying to hide that the new books will be replacements for the current core books. They've been pretty open about this. They have also been pretty open that the new books will not make your older 5e adventures incompatible. The new books replacing the 2014 core books should not be a surprise to anyone that has been following the playtest or who have halfway been paying attention.

 

[Micah Sweet]

They've done nothing but talk about the fact that they are making changes.

The changes are not radical, the intent is that you can mix and match. Whether people choose to replace their old books is something WOTC has no control over. Your old books will not self destruct.

You keep banging this drum that they're lying, I just don't see anything to back it up. The rules are a decade old, they could use a tuneup. Hence, new books.

2e was a tuneup of 1e. 3.5e was a tuneup of 3e. Both were labeled as such, and both were intended as replacements. What's different in this situation besides marketing?

 

[Shardstone]

So why are you here? Just to tell people who disagree with the majority how little they matter?

It's really not that deep.