D&D 5E D&D Next is a crappy name.

[howandwhy99]

Working Title: Dungeon & Dragons Next

(Maybe they'll just call it NEXT!)

 

[dkyle]

It positively screams corporate jingoism.

Might as well call it D&D eXtreMe EdiTioN.

*facepalm*

Have these people actually met their core audience?

D&D Next: Dungeons and dragons GONE WRONG!!!!


Yeah. Shoot for somethong a little more dignified. Or.. Heavens help us respectable even.

D&D Master Edition
D&D Omni Edition
Or take off the edition...

Just call the damn game dungeons and dragons.

"Next" seems entirely "dignified" to me, at least as a working name. I'm rather confounded by the connotations you are applying to it.

Anyway, I very much doubt "Next" will appear on the covers. It'll be "Dungeons & Dragons", just like the 3.X and 4E books had.

 

[El Mahdi]

Have these people actually met their core audience?...

I'm sure they've met quite a few people of their core audience, like some of those right here in this thread.

Though the encounters likely led them to run away in terror...

 

[howandwhy99]

I still think they should name this stuff like software iterations:

D&D: Phoenix (windows XP)
D&D: Umber Hulk (windows millennium)
D&D: Grell (NT)
D&D: Invisible Stalker (Vista)

 

[CleverNickName]

I know that "D&D Next" is just a code name, but I still call it 5E anyway just for simplicity's sake. And when it's released in published form, I will continue to do so regardless of what it is actually called. It could have "D&D: Call This Anything But Fifth Edition" printed on the cover, and I will still refer to it as "5E."

 

[El Mahdi]

I still think they should name this stuff like software iterations:

D&D: Phoenix (windows XP)
D&D: Umber Hulk (windows millennium)
D&D: Grell (NT)
D&D: Invisible Stalker (Vista)

So, is D&D Next going to be D&D: Doppleganger...?

 

[MoxieFu]

I'm sure they've met quite a few people of their core audience, like some of those right here in this thread.

Though the encounters likely led them to run away in terror...

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

-Pogo

 

[hafrogman]

I know that "D&D Next" is just a code name, but I still call it 5E anyway just for simplicity's sake. And when it's released in published form, I will continue to do so regardless of what it is actually called. It could have "D&D: Call This Anything But Fifth Edition" printed on the cover, and I will still refer to it as "5E."

See, here's the thing. We've had this discussion in the past. Not the recent past, more like nine years ago. Remember Third Edition Revised? No? That's because from the day it was announced, everyone started calling it 3.5, except for WotC. But if you pull out your book and check, you'll see that it actually says v3.5 right there on the cover.

If you, and everyone else, CALL it 5e, I am willing to bet that is what will end up being the official name.

 

[CleverNickName]

If you, and everyone else, CALL it 5e, I am willing to bet that is what will end up being the official name.

Yep, I completely agree. But it seems a bit more deliberate than that.

I remember back in the day, shortly after 4th Edition was released, someone from Wizards said something to the effect of "there will never be a fifth edition." So I wonder if the D&D Next tag is related to that somehow.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I've given up and am now working on DADAN: D&D After Next.