D&D 5E (2024) "One D&D": do you like this name for the 2024 edition?

[darjr]

Sometimes this place definitely just has the same conversation. I mean I’m not dismissing it, I think it’s OK.

It just struck me to go look is all.

D&D 5E - D&D Next is a crappy name.

It positively screams corporate jingoism. Might as well call it D&D eXtreMe EdiTioN. *facepalm* Have these people actually met their core audience? D&D Next: Dungeons and dragons GONE WRONG!!!! Yeah. Shoot for somethong a little more dignified. Or.. Heavens help us respectable even. D&D...

www.enworld.org

 

[Pedantic]

It's going to get called either 5.5 or 6E, depending how much it deviates and how it's received. We should start a pool on which one of those sticks.

 

[cbwjm]

Surely this is just the working name, like DnD next or blue milk special.

 

[aco175]

AS long as it is not D&D XP or Vista. I was confused after I had Windows 98, Windows 2000- I was looking for 2002.

 

[Reynard]

i mean, it's not its actual name. They explicitly called it a code name on the stream. It's just lead up branding. If D&D is truly dropping edition numbers, all the better. they don't need anything else.

Except they can bring back Advanced D&D for when they actually decide to give not-new GMs real support.,

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

AS long as it is not D&D XP or Vista. I was confused after I had Windows 98, Windows 2000- I was looking for 2002.

Are you nuts? D&D XP is EXACTLY the name they should have chosen.

And yeah, this really sniffs of never having been focus-grouped. I can't even conceive of actual players who would respond to the name with, "Yes! This is awesome! Go with that!"

 

[MockingBird]

They said it's just a code name for the playtest. I wouldn't get too worked up about it.

 

[CleverNickName]

Well, instead of D&D 6th Edition, they could call it--(opens thesaurus)--D&D 6th Copy, Program, Publication, Release, Version, Volume, Update, Revision, Impression, Imprint, Reprinting, or Reissue. I think I like Release best.

D&D RELEASE!

Nah, that sounds like a drug commercial. "Ask your doctor if D&D Release is right for you..."

Maybe Version? D&D 6th Version...or Version 6. D&Dv6 for short?

Hmmm...that doesn't work either. It looks like Internet slang....'L33Tsp33k,' for those of us in our 40s. I don't want to hack the planet, I just want to slay some dragons.

All joking aside, "One D&D" is a good name. It has connotations of unity, reminding us that there is really only one game called Dungeons & Dragons. It's a reminder that no matter what changes, there will still be only one game called "Dungeons and Dragons." It's good marketing. When the dust settles, and the playtests are over, and they've managed to convince us that we need this new edition of the game (by making it seem like those changes were our ideas all along), I suspect they will drop all of the numbers and just call it "Dungeons and Dragons." I bet that if they refer to the edition number at all, it won't be on the cover...it'll be buried on the copyright page.

 

[DND_Reborn]

No, but I can see them going with it, just to emphasize that this will be the "[There Can Be Only] ONE D&D" version.

 

[MoonSong]

Maybe abbreviate it as 1D&D?