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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9867658" data-attributes="member: 59816">If I had my way (and I've never expected to) I'd have replaced the decimal with the &quot;e&quot; and called it 5e24. It's only one character more than 5.5e and I think is a better method for designating the change, without a throwback to a marketing scheme from the early oughts. Though that is itself a concession - WotC never wanted to call 5e14 &quot;Fifth Edition&quot; either, but lost that battle. Their fault was not marketing it with a specific alternate moniker, though the traction that the edition-names have had, in spite of pretty much all having been technically incorrect, in the very least since 2nd Edition did their revised Black Books, if not before.I guess in the end, I'll just have to accept that 3.5 left its indelible stamp, and for D&amp;D at least, &quot;Half Editions&quot; are in fact a thing. Those aforementioned Black Books are &quot;2.5&quot; and D&amp;D Essentials is &quot;4.5&quot; and now we have &quot;5.5&quot;. Ugh. I don't like it, but it is what it is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 9867658, member: 59816"] If I had my way (and I've never expected to) I'd have replaced the decimal with the "e" and called it 5e24. It's only one character more than 5.5e and I think is a better method for designating the change, without a throwback to a marketing scheme from the early oughts. Though that is itself a concession - WotC never wanted to call 5e14 "Fifth Edition" either, but lost that battle. Their fault was not marketing it with a specific alternate moniker, though the traction that the edition-names have had, in spite of pretty much all having been technically incorrect, in the very least since 2nd Edition did their revised Black Books, if not before. I guess in the end, I'll just have to accept that 3.5 left its indelible stamp, and for D&D at least, "Half Editions" [I]are in fact a thing[/I]. Those aforementioned Black Books are "2.5" and D&D Essentials is "4.5" and now we have "5.5". Ugh. I don't like it, but it is what it is. [/QUOTE]

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