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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9431386" data-attributes="member: 59816">I doubt that. I suspect that they went over all the ways that they could call it, and settled on this as communicating what they wanted most to communicate. I really don't think that it's quite as nefarious as all that.Again, us &quot;hardcore&quot; D&amp;D nerds are very attached to the messy naming conventions of the past, but the &quot;mainstream&quot; audience that D&amp;D has picked up is not - and the one that they're looking for in the future is also not. In this case, I don't even think that it's a lack of respect for the hardcore gamer market. I think that they rightly believe that we can figure it out.And once they're off the &quot;edition&quot; bandwagon (as it's been used in the past) they can revise the game, when it's appropriate, without as much of the baggage as we've had up until now. I think that they were right when they tried last time to NOT call it 5e, but it didn't take that time. If they keep trying, they might pull it off. Or not. I guess we'll see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 9431386, member: 59816"] I doubt that. I suspect that they went over all the ways that they could call it, and settled on this as communicating what they wanted most to communicate. I really don't think that it's quite as nefarious as all that. Again, us "hardcore" D&D nerds are very attached to the messy naming conventions of the past, but the "mainstream" audience that D&D has picked up is not - and the one that they're looking for in the future is also not. In this case, I don't even think that it's a lack of respect for the hardcore gamer market. I think that they rightly believe that we can figure it out. And once they're off the "edition" bandwagon (as it's been used in the past) they can revise the game, when it's appropriate, without as much of the baggage as we've had up until now. I think that they were right when they tried [I]last time[/I] to NOT call it 5e, but it didn't take that time. If they keep trying, they [I]might[/I] pull it off. Or not. I guess we'll see. [/QUOTE]

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