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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8816671" data-attributes="member: 6803643">One D&amp;D is the prototype name, the same as D&amp;D Next. The books won't say One D&amp;D or D&amp;D 6th Edition or even ADVANCED D&amp;D 5th Edition ESSENTIALS PLUS PRO ADVANCE.They'll just say Dungeons &amp; Dragons. WotC has a financial incentive to have a singular product series on the market that is their brand identity. There's no need to subdivide the brand. So if you had older edition books, or even older 5e books, it's still D&amp;D. It's ALL D&amp;D. But these are building on the matrix of the 5e rules. It's like how 3e dropped the Advanced title. There was no need to keep the ADVANCED when the Basic line was dead as of 5 years earlier. Now they're just dropping the initials numbers.In any case, owning up to a new edition with huge changes would be very financially problematic for them. They don't need that messiness. They don't want to split the party again like at every edition change in the past. They want to unify the party while updating the core to build on everything they've learned from selling us the expansions and playing them with us over the last 10 years. This is 5.5e MAYBE. 5.1e was the updated SRD that came out just a few months after the 5.0e SRD in 2016, alongside the finalized 5e Basic Rules v1.0. 5.2e would then be Xanathar's in 2017, 5.3e would be Tasha's and the changes it brought in 2019, and 5.4e would be Mordenkainen Presents and the changes that it brought this year (2022).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8816671, member: 6803643"] One D&D is the prototype name, the same as D&D Next. The books won't say One D&D or D&D 6th Edition or even ADVANCED D&D 5th Edition ESSENTIALS PLUS PRO ADVANCE. They'll just say Dungeons & Dragons. WotC has a financial incentive to have a singular product series on the market that is their brand identity. There's no need to subdivide the brand. So if you had older edition books, or even older 5e books, it's still D&D. It's ALL D&D. But these are building on the matrix of the 5e rules. It's like how 3e dropped the Advanced title. There was no need to keep the ADVANCED when the Basic line was dead as of 5 years earlier. Now they're just dropping the initials numbers. In any case, owning up to a new edition with huge changes would be very financially problematic for them. They don't need that messiness. They don't want to split the party again like at every edition change in the past. They want to unify the party while updating the core to build on everything they've learned from selling us the expansions and playing them with us over the last 10 years. This is 5.5e MAYBE. 5.1e was the updated SRD that came out just a few months after the 5.0e SRD in 2016, alongside the finalized 5e Basic Rules v1.0. 5.2e would then be Xanathar's in 2017, 5.3e would be Tasha's and the changes it brought in 2019, and 5.4e would be Mordenkainen Presents and the changes that it brought this year (2022). [/QUOTE]

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