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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9430884" data-attributes="member: 59816">I mean, this has been gone over a thousand times. There are two uses of the word Edition in play.By one of those uses (normal books), D&amp;D is on its 17th Edition (9th if you're only counting core, which would be fair) but certainly NOT SIX.The other, is D&amp;D's ridiculously messy version, where they threw in silly numbers like &quot;half editions&quot; (3e) and &quot;Essential Editions&quot; (4e) and &quot;Revised Editions&quot; (2e) and it's a mess. A mess that usually means that they're going to go through many of the previous released books and update them to the new &quot;edition&quot;.WotC is not going to do that this time. Most of the books are fine as-is and don't need updating to work with the new core books. They're still in print, and still on store shelves.The only way to effectively communicate this fact is to call it &quot;5e Revised&quot;. And only because they were unable to avoid the use of the term &quot;5e&quot; the LAST time around, when they tried to get rid of the nonsense of D&amp;D's use of the word &quot;edition&quot;.WotC is literally trying to fix how the word &quot;edition&quot; is used in D&amp;D (fix it to &quot;D&amp;D&quot; and the edition year), like how the word actually works in regular publishing, and we (the community) won't let them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 9430884, member: 59816"] I mean, this has been gone over a thousand times. There are two uses of the word Edition in play. By one of those uses (normal books), D&D is on its 17th Edition (9th if you're only counting core, which would be fair) but certainly NOT SIX. The other, is D&D's ridiculously messy version, where they threw in silly numbers like "half editions" (3e) and "Essential Editions" (4e) and "Revised Editions" (2e) and it's a [I]mess[/I]. A mess that [I]usually[/I] means that they're going to go through many of the previous released books and update them to the new "edition". WotC is not going to do that this time. Most of the books are fine as-is and don't need updating to work with the new core books. They're still in print, and still on store shelves. The only way to effectively communicate this fact is to call it "5e Revised". And only because they were unable to avoid the use of the term "5e" the LAST time around, when they tried to get rid of the nonsense of D&D's use of the word "edition". WotC is literally trying to fix how the word "edition" is used in D&D (fix it to "D&D" and the [I]edition year)[/I], like how the word actually works in regular publishing, and we (the community) [I]won't let them[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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