D&D (2024) So IS it a new edition?

[Morrus]

So without wanting to rehash the same arguments going on elsewhere—and I don’t think anybody is going to budge on those—I wanted to take a quick snap poll.

Is it or isn’t it, in your eyes? Using whatever criteria you want. Simple question, just yes or no. Don’t worry, it’s not legally binding or anything!

My similar poll on Twitter is surprisingly close. I wonder if the opinion here matches that or not?

 

[Parmandur]

Insufficiently nuanced: it is a new typical edition the way the publishing industry usually works, but it is not a "New Edition, Throw Out Your Books" like TSR and WotC have done in the past.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I am giving up on convincing people... it is a new version that needs to be a distinction for talking about and prepping... we used to call that editions, in my group we are calling it 5.5... but I don't think we can as a group talk about this and the other phb in 2014 interchangeably we need to describe in short term what is what... over time this will just be default D&D (Until the next edition change)

 

[Retreater]

It's as much as a change from 1e to 2e, if not more. Or 3e to 3.5e.
All of those edition changes were also backward compatible.
An edition change doesn't have to be as major as from 2e to 3e, or 3e to 4e, or 4e to 5e.
If a player or GM is required to read a new rulebook cover-to-cover to know what's changed in it, it's a new edition.

 

[Minigiant]

Meh, it's not.

It's the video game version of a major patch that includes features of community mods.

The 2024 version is a balance patch and reorganizing.

 

[Jack Daniel]

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[FrogReaver]

Follow up question. Was 3.5e a new edition?

 

[Scribe]

Are there rules for the same 'unit' which are different from 2014 to 2024? Yes.
Will the 3 2014 (PHB/MM/DMG) remain in print? I believe not.

How then is it not a new edition?

 

[Scott Christian]

Even if it isn't for some people, there still needs to be an easy way to denote what you are talking about. Are you talking about the 2014 stealth rules or 2024 stealth rules? Are you talking about the 2014 green dragon or the 2024 green dragon? Are you talking about the 2014 barbarian or the 2024 barbarian?

 

[Umbran]

"New edition" in this context is not well-defined.

And, really, I do not care if it is a new edition. It is an arbitrary distinction that doesn't change the content, or how it plays.