D&D (2024) Reworked…revised…redone….but

[Remathilis]

As always, what you believe should have been the name for the new books is more telling of the speaker than the rules themselves. Specifically, it reveals the speaker's biases towards D&D, 5e and WotC in general.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Who says they were expecting the same content? You say that now they expect the same content because there is no version number, despite the different cover. I'd say if I have a different cover, I also expect different content.

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Why would I expect the below to be the same rules?

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Because they have the same book title. I wouldn't expect two copies of A Game of Thrones with different covers to have different content.

 

[mamba]

I would argue that if the two books have the same name, and there's no new edition, and trade dress-wise it looks quite similar,

the reprint of 2e has a completely different trade dress, so by that logic they should have different content, and since no one is keeping up with D&D news, no one knows whether there is a new edition or not, so all they have to go by is the cover, just like you claim is the case now

 

[Micah Sweet]

As always, what you believe should have been the name for the new books is more telling of the speaker than the rules themselves. Specifically, it reveals the speaker's biases towards D&D, 5e and WotC in general.

So long as your statement applies to everyone, I can't really argue that. I and others each have a take.

 

[Micah Sweet]

the reprint of 2e has a completely different trade dress, so by that logic they should have different content, and since no one is keeping up with D&D news, no one knows whether there is a new edition or not, so all they have to go by is the cover, just like you claim is the case now

It's not a perfect comparison, I admit. Point to @mamba !

 

[mamba]

Because they have the same book title. I wouldn't expect two copies of A Game of Thrones with different covers to have different content.

it doesn't even say 2nd edition on the reprint, might as well be a 1e reprint then

 

[WanderingMystic]

Personally I think that they should have had Revised on the cover or maybe Anniversary Edition.
In other editions of D&D old adventures and modules were reprinted so you would have to re buy them, with them trying to keep this as the same edition they are not doing that.

 

[Remathilis]

So long as your statement applies to everyone, I can't really argue that. I and others each have a take.

I didn't exclude anyone. In a lot of situations, the name you* give it reveals your agenda. The difference between '24, 5.5 or 6e really depends on how much you want to "other" it from the 2014 version of 5e.

* Editorial you

 

[Micah Sweet]

I didn't exclude anyone. In a lot of situations, the name you give it reveals your agenda. The difference between '24, 5.5 or 6e really depends on how much you want to "other" it from the 2014 version of 5e.

Fair. I very much want to other it, because I don't want 3pp to change to suit it better, and I don't care about compatibility with WotC adventures.

 

[Parmandur]

But still if it wasn't for this site, I'd have no idea that video even exists. I don't subscribe to any RPG material, or any at all, on YouTube. I'm sure now that I watched that video YT will recommend or bombard me with ads for every Ginny Di video she posts for the next 10 years

BButthat ia why the book itself makes it clear it is the current PHB, compatible worh other 5E materials.