D&D (2024) Do you plan to adopt D&D5.5One2024Redux?

[Parmandur]

people here certainly know about it, not sure how much difference a few pages with art will make.

People make decisions for purchases like this on art more than abstract rule tests.

 

[Micah Sweet]

then they'd agonize that it is a new edition

Nah. Easier to ignore material you don't want if it's labeled properly as a new edition. I very much wish they'd done that.

 

[Micah Sweet]

no idea, the polls for HAT were representative, the question is how much does it skew negative because of people who do not play 5e to begin with


people here certainly know about it, not sure how much difference a few pages with art will make.

Maybe we should repeat this poll in August


if 50% buy them, they sell fine already

And of course, you'd have to define "5e" for purposes of the poll.

 

[Corinnguard]

And of course, you'd have to define "5e" for purposes of the poll.

Can 5e be defined in a single, easy-to-understand sentence? Probably not. Such a definition would need to be looked at objectively. 5e currently and subjectively means different things to different people.

 

[mamba]

People make decisions for purchases like this on art more than abstract rule tests.

that is why repeating it in August might be interesting. It would show whether opinions changed (we still would have to guess whether it was the art that did it, but at least if there were no change, we’d know it made little difference)

 

[mamba]

And of course, you'd have to define "5e" for purposes of the poll.

D&D 2014, I am not really seeing anyone else moving to 2024 anyway, and even if they do, that is not what the poll was about

 

[Maxperson]

Let's face it, no one is going to be completely satisfied in either outcome.

Yep, but if they had made significant changes that improved the game the way 3.5e did, I'd have forked over the cash in a heartbeat. As is stands I have no intention of buying the books. About the only thing that could get me to buy them would be if my gaming group as a whole decided to upgrade and I had no real choice.

 

[Lanefan]

Like the concept of not calling it a new edition is impossible to process, even though from a business perspective it makes all the sense in the world. What was confusing was the way TSR originally starting using "edition" to mean a whole new version of the game. I'm glad that WotC is finally abandoning that weird practice.

WotC might be trying to abandon that practice but the idea of a revised version of something being labelled a "new edition" has become pretty widespread, not just in RPG circles but elsewhere.

Which means, they're stuck with this/next year's release being known as 5.5e whether they like it or not.

 

[Maxperson]

In all fairness there’s probably a significant number of no votes that don’t currently or haven’t ever played 5e.

I suspect you’d see closer to 2/3 if only those regularly playing 5e were polled.

Good point!

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yep, but if they had made significant changes that improved the game the way 3.5e did, I'd have forked over the cash in a heartbeat. As is stands I have no intention of buying the books. About the only thing that could get me to buy them would be if my gaming group as a whole decided to upgrade and I had no real choice.

I use material from many 5e sources, even if my core is Level Up. If I thought the improvements in the offing for 5.5e were worth buying the books again (and it would have to be physical for me), I would strongly consider it. I have no reason, however, to think that it will be worth it, based on what I've seen so far.