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

[R_J_K75]

A long time ago, I used to run plenty of such games. I had the 1e PHB and UA and the 2e PHB in a backpack and I would just improvise stuff on the fly. Good times.

Same, I had a 50# backpack I used to bring to games and did the same, a time when I could actually remember a majority of the rules

 

[DarkCrisis]

On one hand the differences between 1 and 2E are about the same as 5 and 5.5 and that was a whole new edition.

It's also akin to the changes of 3.0 and 3.5 which they labeled a half-edition. Also like 5 and 5.5 this was done to not scare people off and to make more $.

Either way this could have been called 6E or 5.5E and both would be correct.

What it is NOT is "still 5E".

Me, I'll go with 5.5 because 6E won't pop up for another 10 years give or take. And it IS coming just like this half ed was though people didn't want to believe it.

 

[payn]

Same, I had a 50# backpack I used to bring to games and did the same, a time when I could actually remember a majority of the rules

Been thinking about training for camping, hiking, portaging, int he boundary waters again. Want to put together a racksack to hike around the neighborhood so I get used to a 60# sack. I should just fill a pack with RPG books for weight! Lord knows I have enough.

 

[payn]

On one hand the differences between 1 and 2E are about the same as 5 and 5.5 and that was a whole new edition.

It's also akin to the changes of 3.0 and 3.5 which they labeled a half-edition. Also like 5 and 5.5 this was done to not scare people off and to make more $.

Either way this could have been called 6E or 5.5E and both would be correct.

What it is NOT is "still 5E".

Me, I'll go with 5.5 because 6E won't pop up for another 10 years give or take. And it IS coming just like this half ed was though people didn't want to believe it.

If we wait long enough, all Dark's predictions will come true!

 

[Seramus]

It's a "new edition" in the way that Games Workshop pumps out new codex that can blow up the meta. It's the "same edition" in the way that it's not a big departure from 5E.

And ten years from now I'm pretty sure they will call the next release 6E not 7E.

So, 5.5.

 

[ART!]

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.

Yeah, this is how I see it, too - more like a 5.25 than even a 5.5, let alone a 6E.

 

[DarkCrisis]

If we wait long enough, all Dark's predictions will come true!

Little known fact, all of my posts are made by 100 monkeys on typewriters working for decades now. Even this one!

 

[Distracted DM]

Nope.

Ah, so we're just not using the same definition of "new edition," then. That should be defined by the person asking the question, if they don't want to stir up things between folks Or ask how you define "a new edition" @Morrus

I thought of 3e vs 3.5 or 3.5 vs PF1e, as "new editions." But their contents, features, monsters, etc. were pretty compatible with one-another, they used basically the same system. I guess if it has a new set of core books, I'm thinking it's a new edition.
So by that definition, in my mind yes it is a new edition.

But if you only consider 3e vs 4e new editions? No it is not.

 

[Katarhas]

Other games and books in publishing call that a "new edition."

Not necessarily, Pathfinder did a remaster of their 2E which had a decent amount of changes, but I don't remember seeing this kind of discourse around that being a new edition and everyone referring to it as a remaster, as Paizo refers to it as well.

 

[mamba]

Interesting. Isn’t any revised edition a new edition?

no… 2e revised was not, 5e revised is not