D&D (2024) If WOTC announces that OneDnd will be called 6th edition and will be backwards compatible with fifth edition adventures and supplements What changes?

[gametaku]

If tomorrow WOTC came out with an announcement that said "One DND will be officially called Sixth Edition Dungeons and Dragons and that the rules will be backwards compatible with fifth edition adventures and supplements."


What changes?
About the playtest?
About the products you would buy?
The games and campaigns you would run?

 

[Xamnam]

For me, nothing.

 

[Vael]

Nothing really. Just like if we all called it 6th ed even while WotC refers to it as OneDnD.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

nothing... we would even still have arguments on here (enworld) about what backwards compatible means...

I PERSONALLY would respect WotC design and advertiseing teams more for being honest (cause I see this as much a new edition as 1e/2e or 3e/3.5 maybe more) but nothing really changes...

heck I bet people would still get away with being insulting of people who dare speak up about it.

 

[HammerMan]

A big lot of nothing. Most people in my group started calling it 5.5 already. 1d&d is a fine distinction but it is a new edition no matter what they call it.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

the rules will be backwards compatible with fifth edition adventures and supplements

They already claimed specifically that lol. How is this a change?

 

[Vael]

They already claimed specifically that lol. How is this a change?

That's the point of the OP. Is there a functional difference between WotC calling it OneDnD or 6th Ed?

 

[Oofta]

They don't officially label the current edition as 5E, so this is kind of meaningless. They don't care what we call the next edition, they aren't going to put a number on it.

 

[Pedantic]

I mean. It still won't actually be compatible, without a conversation document as written (particularly for subclasses) so... Nothing?

The argument in general here isn't about WotC's labeling, it's about what "compatibility" entails, something there's a range of opinions about.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

They don't officially label the current edition as 5E, so this is kind of meaningless. They don't care what we call the next edition, they aren't going to put a number on it.

I thought someone disproved this by showing where it says 5e or 5th edition on the books last year...