D&D (2024) "One D&D": do you like this name for the 2024 edition?

[Ogre Mage]

Hopefully it is just a placeholder name until they can come up with something better.

 

[ReshiIRE]

The following is based on One by U2

"Is it getting better?
Or do players feel the same?
Will the TPK easier be on you now
You got no crits to blame?

You say, one Dungeon, one Dragon (one game)
It's one party in the night
One dragon (one dragon)
Get to adjudicate it
Leaves you Dm
If there's no inspiration for it

Did Spelljamer disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like Dragonborn never had love
And you want feats to go without

Well, it's too late, tonight
To drag counterspell out into the light
Dnd's one, but it's not the same
We get to play each other, play each other

One (One)

Have you come here for backgrounds?
Have you come for wizard nerfs?
Have you come to play 2nd edition
To the groganads in your head

Well, did I change too much? More than a lot?
You hated Van Richten's now it's all I got
Dnd's one but it's not the same
See we, strike each other then we do it again

You say, dungeon is a temple, dungeon the higher law,
Dungeon is a temple, dungeon the higher law
You ask me for Psionics but then you homebrew one
And I can't keep printing that PHB you got,
'Cause that's all your players got

One Dungeon, one beyond,
One life, you've got to play what you should
One party with each other
Munchkins and roleplayers
One game but it's not the same
We get to play each other, play each other

One
One
One
One
One
One

One Dungeon, One Dungeon"

 

[EzekielRaiden]

No. I strongly dislike it.

It's almost certainly going to end up being the same thing "D&D Next" was: a temporary marketing gimmick.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

For the next time you repeat that slogan:

Here is an "ü". And try capitalizing nouns.

Really hoping not to have to repeat it lol. It's one of those phrases you don't want to need to repeat. But ty for the letter.

 

[Yaarel]

For the sake of convenience and a touch of humor,

I will be abbreviating the playtest One D&D to:

"ODD"

 

[R_J_K75]

As the dissenting voice I will say, I like the clear "no more editions, just tools" message they are going for.

One D&D is a terrible name. As for 5E being the last edition of D&D I doubt it. Even if they do this, at some point in the not-too-distant future the game will have evolved hardly resemble 5E. And I'm sure the people running the company and designing the game will be different from today so plans will most likely change.

 

[delericho]

As a code name for the playtest, it's fine.

Like others, I'm reasonably sure the game will end up being called either 5.5e or 6e, depending on the scale of the changes. I'm less sure whether that will be an official naming, or simply a de facto naming in the community.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

"One D&D" sounds just like corporate marketing nonsense, not like a hobby game.

I guess all the decision makers at Hasbro are so deeply embroiled in CorpSpeak that none of them notice how stupid the name is.

Also as mentioned before the name reminds of the "Xbox One", a product designed by marketeers and initially ridiculed by gamers. Will 1D&D suffer the same fate?

 

[DarkCrisis]

It’s no D&D U

 

[Ibrandul]

Funniest moment of the stream:

I said to myself, "Gosh, they want 'One D&D' to imply exactly the opposite, but it sure does sound like some evil 'you will be assimilated' Borg-ey stuff instead—especially since it's all bundled up with an initiative to move D&D further toward bio-digital convergence (and presumably put alternatives like Roll20 out of business) with the VTT and all"...

...and then they revealed the name of the upcoming MTG set about an evil Borg-ey world trying to assimilate the multiverse: "Phyrexia: All Will Be One."