D&D (2024) So IS it a new edition?

[Oofta]

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Let's also not forget that WoTC is trying to make D&D into a completely virtual RPG.

They've never said that. They are providing support for virtual games just like Roll20, Fantasy Grounds and several other companies do now. What they have said is that they plan on continuing to sell books.

 

[Minigiant]

But I do agree that even small changes to that core tended to change more than small changes to 5e’s core do. I think it’s just diluting that reason down to simplicity on 3e’s part seems off.

I probably wasn't clear

3e's class system was simple but it was connected to so much that fixing base classes required altered the who game.

5e, not so much. Most of the 2024 changes are minor, shuffling, or making what was optional but popular into core

It's barely a DLC.

If TTRPGs were not book based, there'd be a riot over charging more than $10 for this.

 

[Belen]

In your opinion. That wasn't what was asked.

As I was responding to someone equating it as a computer patch, then it is a valid argument.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Theory - those who dislike the overall changes are much more likely to call this a new edition?

I like several of them, and I think it should be called a revised (and thus in that sense "new") edition.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I don't think it's a new edition in the same way 3.5 and 4.5 (Essentials) weren't new editions. Don't worry, I think we'll definitely know it when a new edition (6th edition) comes out.

There is no 4.5. Essentials is not a revision. Please, for the love of God, stop calling it that. It is not and never was.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

It's not that I don't want to do the effort. It's that it's likely not worth it as I can guess that it's probable that Volo's would beat MotM, but only by a few copies.

No problem. I agree. We have to moderate our involvement in these fora or we'll go from passing time to wasting it.

 

[mamba]

I like several of them, and I think it should be called a revised (and thus in that sense "new") edition.

they are called revised…

 

[EzekielRaiden]

It says that it's a Revised Edition of 5e right on the cover. How is that WotC "refusing to admit it"?

By calling it "2024 D&D" instead of, y'know, 5.5e. Or literally any other name that recognizes that it isn't actually 100% the same game they published a decade ago.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

By calling it "2024 D&D" instead of, y'know, 5.5e. Or literally any other name that recognizes that it isn't actually 100% the same game they published a decade ago.

I explained this in post #308. Calling it D&D 2024 makes it the 2024 "edition" of D&D under the normal meaning of the word "edition". Calling it 5.5e makes them stuck to a BS marketing scheme they used once, 20 years ago.

And the post you quoted above, I point out that they call it Revised ON THE COVER.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I explained this in post #308. Calling it D&D 2024 makes it the 2024 "edition" of D&D under the normal meaning of the word "edition". Calling it 5.5e makes them stuck to a BS marketing scheme they used once, 20 years ago.

And the post you quoted above, I point out that they call it Revised ON THE COVER.

I still feel it is overt bogus marketing speak to name it as they have done.