No. That's not true. Settings deliberately change some assumptions that the base game establishes. They are not new editions and it is appropriate to differentiate based on setting differences. I'm talking about the core rules, which are not setting.
How do you figure? Differentiating between 5e and 5.5e isn't anything hostile or derogatory about either edition. It's literally no different than using 2014 and 2024, 5e and next, or any other differentiation.
Which core rules is not a "setting difference"?
Right. We need to differentiate it somehow, and the other names seem too gimmicky to me, so I'm simply using the D&D standard numbering system.
I’m not at war with the new edition. I’m calling it 5.5 because in the absence of calling it something that actually stuck with me, I went back to the standard numbering convention.
LOL! The people using the term "5.5" have been outspokenly critical against the 2024 Players Handbook. Such as @Scribe, @Micah Sweet, @CreamCloud0, and others. I will let them speak for themselves, but they do come across as unhappy with and warring against the D&D 2024 core rules update. The use of the term 5.5 seems a shibboleth for an edition war.
All of them. The core rules are setting neutral. Setting is what you choose to do with those rules when you create or run an already created game setting.
Not in the core rules it isn't.
So in order to use 5.5e and not be "edition warring" I have to like everything about the 5.5e PHB? Poppycock. I can like some of it and not other parts of it, be critical of some portions and happy with others, while calling it 5.5e the entire time. And not be edition warring. The same with the others who use 5.5e.
I'm starting an AD&D 2.5 edition game. Does that tell you what rules I'm using?
I’m not at war with the new edition. I’m calling it 5.5 because in the absence of calling it something that actually stuck with me, I went back to the standard numbering convention.
Either skills and powers, or the 2.5e rules that Mike Mearls created after 3e came out.
