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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8985924" data-attributes="member: 18">The latter two are unusable because they're brain-twisters and nerd-only. No normal human being will ever call the 2024 edition &quot;5.24&quot;. That's Starfleet Battles levels of nerd (he said, looking over his shoulder at his copy of Starfleet Battles). And most people who play D&amp;D now are not remotely in that category of nerd.The other two are unusable because of similarity - they're one value different, so they won't catch on.If we referred to &quot;5E&quot; and &quot;D&amp;D2024&quot; that might work, but I don't think the latter is sustainable length-wise. And they need to be immediately obviously different, because otherwise people - especially disnumerate people - will be struggling to keep which one is being discussed in their head - DND2014 and DND2024 for example is not helpful. It's a real pity they didn't do it on a year with say different final character.What you have to remember is, we don't decide. No matter how clever we think we are, ENworld is a bunch of ageing grogs with relatively little influence on the D&amp;D community at large. So anything that's being suggested needs to be suitable for a much broader audience. In the end, really only two groups have control over this:1) WotC. They went hard with marketing when launching the UAs, and managed to brand this 1D&amp;D. Now, again, if they didn't mean to, that was a terrible plan because it absolutely happened. WotC are notoriously bad at PR so possibly it was unintentional.2) The community at large, which is mostly people aged from late teens through early 30s. I.e. the youngest Millennials and Gen Z. People who will get info and discuss on YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and so on. Those people have made a choice - WotC's earlier choice - 1D&amp;D.Until WotC can beat 1D&amp;D as a name, or another really snappy name emerges, WotC is stuck with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8985924, member: 18"] The latter two are unusable because they're brain-twisters and nerd-only. No normal human being will ever call the 2024 edition "5.24". That's Starfleet Battles levels of nerd (he said, looking over his shoulder at his copy of Starfleet Battles). And most people who play D&D now are not remotely in that category of nerd. The other two are unusable because of similarity - they're one value different, so they won't catch on. If we referred to "5E" and "D&D2024" that might work, but I don't think the latter is sustainable length-wise. And they need to be immediately obviously different, because otherwise people - especially disnumerate people - will be struggling to keep which one is being discussed in their head - DND2014 and DND2024 for example is not helpful. It's a real pity they didn't do it on a year with say different final character. What you have to remember is, we don't decide. No matter how clever we think we are, ENworld is a bunch of ageing grogs with relatively little influence on the D&D community at large. So anything that's being suggested needs to be suitable for a much broader audience. In the end, really only two groups have control over this: 1) WotC. They went hard with marketing when launching the UAs, and managed to brand this 1D&D. Now, again, if they didn't mean to, that was a terrible plan because it absolutely happened. WotC are notoriously bad at PR so possibly it was unintentional. 2) The community at large, which is mostly people aged from late teens through early 30s. I.e. the youngest Millennials and Gen Z. People who will get info and discuss on YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and so on. Those people have made a choice - WotC's earlier choice - 1D&D. Until WotC can beat 1D&D as a name, or another really snappy name emerges, WotC is stuck with it. [/QUOTE]

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