D&D (2024) Is the 2024 rules update a new edition? Argue about it here (not everywhere else)!

[Stalker0]

When we all look and talk about 3rd edition, by default we are talking 3.5, you actually have to specify if you are referring to 3.0.

I see this in the same vein. It won’t be a new edition per se, but it will take over what 5e means. Everything will shift to onednd, and so in many ways it’s the same as a new edition

 

[UngeheuerLich]

So it is near perfect 50-50 right now...

... which makes it either half an edition or just proves the point that edition bears no meaning anymore...

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

When we all look and talk about 3rd edition, by default we are talking 3.5, you actually have to specify if you are referring to 3.0.

I see this in the same vein. It won’t be a new edition per se, but it will take over what 5e means. Everything will shift to onednd, and so in many ways it’s the same as a new edition

Unless enough people decide they'd rather keep playing 2014 D&D than move to the 2024 books. 3.5 was pretty much a straight upgrade to 3.0, nobody really had much reason to stay with 3.0 for a long time after 3.5 became available. So 3.0 gradually faded away as gamers upgraded.

Time will tell if the 5e -> 1D&D transition goes the same, or if there will be people who stick to the 2014 books because they like them better.

 

[payn]

So it is near perfect 50-50 right now...

... which makes it either half an edition or just proves the point that edition bears no meaning anymore...

Yeap, 100 people on EN world decides it all.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Yeap, 100 people on EN world decides it all.

Who else?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I mean, it IS a new edition; it's ALSO a half-edition; AND it's just a revision.

They could have chosen to call it any of that.

But things being what they are, they picked the most marketable. I'm anti-capitalist, and I don't see anything wrong with that. Why would you pick the name that will ruffle the most feathers? No, you pick the one that ruffles the least. The one that best describes to your audience what it is you mean to say to them, taking into account the zeitgeist of the age.

A 5e Revision it is.

 

[Stalker0]

Who else?

Well since AI apparantely uses enworld as one of its top sites for training, we are teaching our new overlords what to think!

 

[Erandeni]

Yeap, 100 people on EN world decides it all.

We don't?
I have to make some calls...

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Well since AI apparantely uses enworld as one of its top sites for training...

Yikes. I mean, we're much better than Reddit, Twitter, or YouTube, but still... yikes.

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

Yeap, 100 people on EN world decides it all.

it at least shows that we wont ever agree on this site