D&D (2024) What is your preferred naming for the 2014 and 2024 versions of D&D?

[CleverNickName]

I've been calling it R5E, for "Revised 5th Edition."
I'll probably keep calling it that, regardless of what it's actual name ends up being.

 

[DrJawaPhD]

I like the 5.5e term for discussing in forums but in general conversations everyone I've talked with just calls it "new books" vs "old books"

 

[Wolfpack48]

AE as in Advanced Edition? In what way is 2024 D&D a more advanced version of 2014 D&D? It's more like 3.5 in that it is a revision of what's already in 5e. It would need something more to earn the word advance in its' title.

Besides there already is a 5e-adjacent RPG that IMO has earned the use of that word.

Anniversary Edition.

 

[mellored]

Might be better to do an elimination tournament.

I.e. what is your LEAST favorite way to call it.

 

[Tonguez]

DnDisney
Dumb & Dumber?

 

[Corinnguard]

Anniversary Edition.

An5e then.

 

[Seramus]

Might be better to do an elimination tournament.

I.e. what is your LEAST favorite way to call it.

Survivor Edition Name!

We can narrow it down to a final 2, and then the wrong one will win in a sudden flurry of midnight votes.

 

[Yaarel]

Might be better to do an elimination tournament.

I.e. what is your LEAST favorite way to call it.

Those tournaments tend to result in the most obscure − rather than most loved or least hated. I doubt obscure helps here for a naming convention.

 

[Vince Snetterton]

It is a new edition. The changes are more intensive and extensive than when 1e AD&D went to 2e. This is 6e.

 

[M.L. Martin]

It is a new edition. The changes are more intensive and extensive than when 1e AD&D went to 2e. This is 6e.

Well, that depends. Are we using the definition of edition used by TSR and most other RPG companies--"revise the rules, fix the trouble spots, and require some level of conversion or rebuilding"--or the definition of edition adopted by WotC--"Scrap all prior stock, condemn the immediately previous edition to damnatio memoriae for at least 4 years and possibly all eternity, fire the existing fans, make grandiose promises about how it's even more the same game than before, and take further steps down the road to perdition"?