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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9447577" data-attributes="member: 54840">I <a href="https://slyflourish.com/what_is_5e.html" target="_blank">made my case here</a> that the term &quot;5e&quot; became something new during the course of the past ten years and certainly in the last two. Yes, 5e once meant the &quot;5th edition of Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot;, but now it can mean something else.I argue the term &quot;5e&quot; now acts as a stand-alone term defining compatibility between thousands of different 5e RPG products from hundreds of different publishers.The alternative to &quot;pushing this narrative&quot; is to give more credit to WOTC than is due when it comes to this hobby. If 5e == D&amp;D, that omits all other 5e products that are not D&amp;D – many of which are excellent products and, I argue, <a href="https://enpublishingrpg.com/products/level-up-monstrous-menagerie-a5e?variant=41366519775426" target="_blank">superior to those published by WOTC</a>.If your goal is to push the narrative that WOTC controls all of 5e instead of recognizing that 5e is a huge umbrella of products under which D&amp;D 2014 and D&amp;D 2024 are just two lines of many – well, I'm not going to get behind it, and I don't think its healthy for the hobby or a healthy view from GMs. You're tying your happiness with the hobby to the whims of a corporation with no obligation other than to make money from you.That's why I think its important to separate 5e from D&amp;D and to recognize that 5e is now its own TTRPG platform upon which anyone can, and many have, built outstanding compatible products with one another.I can't stop people from handing over their hold on the hobby to Hasbro if that's what they want to do. Hopefully I can show some people another way to think about it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9447577, member: 54840"] I [URL='https://slyflourish.com/what_is_5e.html']made my case here[/URL] that the term "5e" became something new during the course of the past ten years and certainly in the last two. Yes, 5e once meant the "5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons", but now it can mean something else. I argue the term "5e" now acts as a stand-alone term defining compatibility between thousands of different 5e RPG products from hundreds of different publishers. The alternative to "pushing this narrative" is to give more credit to WOTC than is due when it comes to this hobby. If 5e == D&D, that omits all other 5e products that are [I]not[/I] D&D – many of which are excellent products and, I argue, [URL='https://enpublishingrpg.com/products/level-up-monstrous-menagerie-a5e?variant=41366519775426']superior to those published by WOTC[/URL]. If your goal is to push the narrative that WOTC controls all of 5e instead of recognizing that 5e is a huge umbrella of products under which D&D 2014 and D&D 2024 are just two lines of many – well, I'm not going to get behind it, and I don't think its healthy for the hobby or a healthy view from GMs. You're tying your happiness with the hobby to the whims of a corporation with no obligation other than to make money from you. That's why I think its important to separate 5e from D&D and to recognize that 5e is now its own TTRPG platform upon which anyone can, and many have, built outstanding compatible products with one another. I can't stop people from handing over their hold on the hobby to Hasbro if that's what they want to do. Hopefully I can show some people another way to think about it. [/QUOTE]

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