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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8985951" data-attributes="member: 18">Ironically, because of the insistence on loud backwards-compatibility, I don't think so.We can see the evidence of this already on Twitter, reddit, etc, because it's not some sort of elevated ENworld-weirdo-like-me-only concern, it's something that a lot of other people are discussing.If WotC had actually called it a new edition, and not gone on about backwards compatibility and then tried to play down it even being a new 0.5 (lol), but otherwise designed it identically, I think people would have taken it in their stride. But now they've created a situation where the "forever threads" will keep running, and not just about nomenclature.Instead there will forever (well, until 7E) be threads and TikToks and YouTubes and so on about whether you can really use X 5E class in a 1D&D game, how you should update/adapt adventures, whether you even need to, and so on.That horse has not only bolted but is a great grandfather living in Hawaii at this point.Sure, but that's why largely only ENworld people, and few even of them, use that term!It's not about whether I like them. I don't like 1D&D, but that's what's stuck.Sure, but the internet felt differently, so that's irrelevant.Absolutely!WotC still have everything to play for naming-wise.But this is a company that's spent the last 15 years engaging in an amazing sequence of PR screw-ups and slow recoveries. And right now, they're playing like absolute numpties. Just scoring own goals. They need Ted Lasso, and Kyle Brink doesn't seem to be him. Perkins and Crawford certainly aren't.All they need to do is pick a name. It has to be short and snappy, but they need to pick it. Otherwise the community will stick with 1D&D, I would expect.Uh-huh and by doing things like the weird lies about 3E > 3.5E, they're not helping the problem, they're making it worse.</blockquote>

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