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It could be later without disrupting the supply chain, even if the book is out May 19th, but I think you are right. We are going to hear...

Interesting either way, but I am leaning towards suspecting we will hear something soon. We know they have stuff in he pipeline, and if...

So, just going to bump this to make a last second prediction: the latest that WotC has announced the first product of the year during...

Yeah. A lot of digital ink spilled over small stuff.

"Compatibility was just a marketing gimmick" I shout to the world as I used DM rules from 2014 with characters from 2024 in an adventure...

To be honest, I also just feel like my own takes on 5.1 or 5e2024 are rooted mostly in the community's need to identify them as...

AFAIK I never argued whether or not it was a "new game". It is a revision, which means that which is not the same as the previous thing...

I think you've lost the plot here. They are clearly not the same game or else there would not be a revision to talk about, and you admit...

Exactly. "Simple" isn't the same thing as "true" or "the best way to go", it is just easy to understand. Lots of stuff that is...

To be fair, I work in Tech, my whole life at this point is steeped in a world where 1.0, 1.2, 3.0, 3.5....5.5 makes total sense.

As a one time thing for a campaign, fine. Wouldn’t repeat that same exact scenario though.

You know what bothers me even more than using "point five" for a current-edition rules update? ... Calling the base version "point-oh"...

I agree with all of the above. But none of this. YOU think that way because you were taught to think that way with 3.5. But a "Half...

I normally just call the rules “D&D.” If I told my groups we were playing “5e” tonight or “2024” they would look at me with abject...

I can accept that the term 5.5 isn't as catchy as it could be, but "false and misleading"?! Come on!