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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9238019" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I certainly agree with you to a certain extent, and indeed I did have that thought in mind as a potential stumbling block. Some people might indeed see the '5' and immediately go "WIZARDS OF THE COAST DUNGEONS & DRAGONS!!!" anyway and thus get confused regardless. I think it would be less likely, but still certainly possible. But at the same time... because there still are still games that use the d20 System in our memory banks, I think you do need a term that denotes using a twenty-sided die system, but <em>does not</em> denote using the 3E SRD style of twenty-sided die system and instead uses the 5E SRD style of twenty-sided die system.</p><p></p><p>So to my mind, what would work about using d50 is that at least to me it moreso hits my ear and denotes a connection to 'd20' than it does a connection to '5E'. Mainly because the d and the 0 give us two points towards d20, whereas the 5 only gives us one to 5E. But of course, I admit this is just my opinion, so others might make the connection differently.</p><p></p><p>Really it will come down to whether or not people would accept using a term that completely separated itself from anything related to the term '5E' even though every game under its umbrella would still use the engine of 5E. Like would people accept a term like 'Bob games' (just creating a random crap idea for argument's sake here) that is meant to denote 5E engine games? Maybe. But I dunno. Although truth be told, I don't think there's much possibility of a new term catching on anyway, even despite my ideas. You would need one of the bigger companies to actually invent and use a term themselves for their own products, and then see if it stuck amongst the greater gaming populace and then began to be incorporated elsewhere as well. Only then do I think a new term might have a chance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9238019, member: 7006"] I certainly agree with you to a certain extent, and indeed I did have that thought in mind as a potential stumbling block. Some people might indeed see the '5' and immediately go "WIZARDS OF THE COAST DUNGEONS & DRAGONS!!!" anyway and thus get confused regardless. I think it would be less likely, but still certainly possible. But at the same time... because there still are still games that use the d20 System in our memory banks, I think you do need a term that denotes using a twenty-sided die system, but [I]does not[/I] denote using the 3E SRD style of twenty-sided die system and instead uses the 5E SRD style of twenty-sided die system. So to my mind, what would work about using d50 is that at least to me it moreso hits my ear and denotes a connection to 'd20' than it does a connection to '5E'. Mainly because the d and the 0 give us two points towards d20, whereas the 5 only gives us one to 5E. But of course, I admit this is just my opinion, so others might make the connection differently. Really it will come down to whether or not people would accept using a term that completely separated itself from anything related to the term '5E' even though every game under its umbrella would still use the engine of 5E. Like would people accept a term like 'Bob games' (just creating a random crap idea for argument's sake here) that is meant to denote 5E engine games? Maybe. But I dunno. Although truth be told, I don't think there's much possibility of a new term catching on anyway, even despite my ideas. You would need one of the bigger companies to actually invent and use a term themselves for their own products, and then see if it stuck amongst the greater gaming populace and then began to be incorporated elsewhere as well. Only then do I think a new term might have a chance. [/QUOTE]
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