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

[UngeheuerLich]

I would respect them less, because they were advertising a slight revision as something totally new...

... no. Right now, it is totally unclear, how many changes there will be in the final release. They are already taking some of the changes back.

All in all, it does not matter to me. There are arguments for both approaches. 1e - > 2e or 3.0 -> 3.5 are both bigger jumps than what we see here. So the whole discussion is pointless.

 

[TwoSix]

As long as they retain interoperability between old stuff and revised stuff, the exact way they label it is immaterial to me.

 

[Oofta]

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

Not that I know of. I only checked a couple of my books, including the fine print at the front. But in the books I checked no 5E label.

I know a lot of the devs will call it 5E in interviews, but it's nothing official.

 

[delericho]

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?

They'd lose sales. Other than that, very little.

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

None of the above, I think.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Not that I know of. I only checked a couple of my books, including the fine print at the front. But in the books I checked no 5E label.

I know a lot of the devs will call it 5E in interviews, but it's nothing official.

man this did take like 10 mins on google... but the back of the PHB says 5th edition on it

 

[GMforPowergamers]

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm gonna post the same thing I post every time we talk about this: They are going to call it "50th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons" and we can call it whatever we like.

It's actually 16th edition, after all. everything else is just marketing.

What's in a name? That which we call garbage by any other name would smell. ~ Shakespeare's maid.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

It's actually 16th edition, after all. everything else is just marketing.

yeah depending on what you count its somewhere between 14th and 20th edition

 

[DEFCON 1]

Honesty is overrated.

If the product works and I like it, it doesn't matter in the least what the company said about it.

 

[Oofta]

man this did take like 10 mins on google... but the back of the PHB says 5th edition on it
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D'oh! I didn't look at the back, only the first few pages inside.

 

[Oofta]

To correct my previous, erroneous statement made because I didn't think to look at the back, I don't think it matters. What will matter is how compatible it is and how easy transition.

 

[Umbran]

I don't care whether it is called a new edition or not. It is a marketing distinction, not a functional one.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I don't care whether it is called a new edition or not. It is a marketing distinction, not a functional one.

the function is for saying what you are playing... clearity.

Imagine if you took the "edition number" off every edition then found out there are 120 D&D games running over the course of this long weekend at a con. You have a version of the game you want to play (lets say the version that was the most resent in 2007) how do you detriment how many of those games fit that?

lets say half those games are modern games (so 5e including tashas and MotM) (60) and half of what is left is base 5e without the updates (30) and of what is left some (5) are 4e, some are 3.5 (5), and the rest are all TSR editions (20)... without edition how do you silio those?

 

[UngeheuerLich]

the function is for saying what you are playing... clearity.

Imagine if you took the "edition number" off every edition then found out there are 120 D&D games running over the course of this long weekend at a con. You have a version of the game you want to play (lets say the version that was the most resent in 2007) how do you detriment how many of those games fit that?

lets say half those games are modern games (so 5e including tashas and MotM) (60) and half of what is left is base 5e without the updates (30) and of what is left some (5) are 4e, some are 3.5 (5), and the rest are all TSR editions (20)... without edition how do you silio those?

Sounds like business as usual...

 

[Mistwell]

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?

What if they just call it 5e 2024?

 

[Azzy]

For me, nothing. To me, it's effectively going to be a new edition anyway regardless of what they call it—be it termed 5e revised, 5.1e, 6e, or whatever.

 

[Azzy]

What if they just call it 5e 2024?

What if they just call it Mauve?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Sounds like business as usual...

I don't understand what you mean.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I don't understand what you mean.

he means that he has to ask every game at every con "are you useing Thac0" and has since 1989

 

[Mistwell]

What if they just call it Mauve?

Hmm. D&D Mauve. That could work.