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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8937582" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I mean, Jer hits on the core reason - a pre-emptive attempt to stop fans standardizing the name to 5.5E or 6E, because apparently not really referring to the edition caused 5E to happen (rather than "D&D" which was no doubt the goal).</p><p></p><p>But the specific decision to use OneD&D seems to me was caused by hardcore corporate echo-chamber tone-deaf naming. It's not an easy name to type, it's not particularly catchy, and there's a long trend in human history of things which start with "One X" being bad things. I'm not joking or trying be a jerk when I say literally about a second after I read it was called OneD&D my brain went "Ein reich, ein volk..." (not saying that was fair or appropriate of my brain!).</p><p></p><p>It's definitely also intended that we see all parts of the 1D&D "ecosystem" as a collective whole, too. Specifically the 3D VTT has been referred to by WotC as "OneD&D", for example, and has no other name I'm aware of. So I think the idea was basically everything they're introducing was going to be under one umbrella.</p><p></p><p>Personally I would colour-comment that this whole this is absolutely bonehead in the same exact way trying to delete the OGL was. Fans aren't going to go along with it. It's a clunky name, and in practice, fans will need/want to distinguish between the different elements of the ecosystem, so you just keep trying to call them "OneD&D", people will just figure out their own names for the parts, and it'll probably get called 6E in the long term regardless of anything else because that's not only 1/3rd the keypresses and more memorable, it also sounds less weirdly corporate and creepy, and it has that nerd cache where you have to be a little tiny bit "in the know" to know what is being referred to (just the slightest smidge but still). Black Flag is smarter because it can be shortened to BF and likely will be.</p><p></p><p>I think the whole thing is a great demonstration of how profoundly significant parts of WotC don't really understand D&D's audience, despite having a wealth of data, experienced designers, and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8937582, member: 18"] I mean, Jer hits on the core reason - a pre-emptive attempt to stop fans standardizing the name to 5.5E or 6E, because apparently not really referring to the edition caused 5E to happen (rather than "D&D" which was no doubt the goal). But the specific decision to use OneD&D seems to me was caused by hardcore corporate echo-chamber tone-deaf naming. It's not an easy name to type, it's not particularly catchy, and there's a long trend in human history of things which start with "One X" being bad things. I'm not joking or trying be a jerk when I say literally about a second after I read it was called OneD&D my brain went "Ein reich, ein volk..." (not saying that was fair or appropriate of my brain!). It's definitely also intended that we see all parts of the 1D&D "ecosystem" as a collective whole, too. Specifically the 3D VTT has been referred to by WotC as "OneD&D", for example, and has no other name I'm aware of. So I think the idea was basically everything they're introducing was going to be under one umbrella. Personally I would colour-comment that this whole this is absolutely bonehead in the same exact way trying to delete the OGL was. Fans aren't going to go along with it. It's a clunky name, and in practice, fans will need/want to distinguish between the different elements of the ecosystem, so you just keep trying to call them "OneD&D", people will just figure out their own names for the parts, and it'll probably get called 6E in the long term regardless of anything else because that's not only 1/3rd the keypresses and more memorable, it also sounds less weirdly corporate and creepy, and it has that nerd cache where you have to be a little tiny bit "in the know" to know what is being referred to (just the slightest smidge but still). Black Flag is smarter because it can be shortened to BF and likely will be. I think the whole thing is a great demonstration of how profoundly significant parts of WotC don't really understand D&D's audience, despite having a wealth of data, experienced designers, and so on. [/QUOTE]
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