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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9643316" data-attributes="member: 7006">Ah what the heck... I'll take a crack at your question!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For me personally... that new 3.5 revision came so quickly on the heels of the original 3E (I think it was like just 3 years later?) that to me it felt like it wasn't a natural and needed revision to a game that had just become long in the tooth, but was more of a revision based on publishing and money.&nbsp; So in that regard, making a full break identity-wise from 3E seemed more appropriate.&nbsp; The game wasn't a &quot;new edition&quot; because the game didn't change substantially enough (in my opinion)... but it also wasn't just a slightly revised necessity.&nbsp; So calling it by a more substantial name change of 3.5 felt like an appropriate idea at the time.But 5E24 has never seemed like that to me.&nbsp; First of all it took them 10 years to finally do a published revision of 5E, so that in itself never gave the impression that it was similar to what 3.5 was or why it was made.&nbsp; And of course on top of that... no one at WotC ever deigned to call it 5.5 (unlike WotC straight out calling their revised game 3.5) so to me it just seems odd for me to call this revised game by the same naming convention of what was essentially a quick money-grab and which no one else at the company decided to do this time around.&nbsp; So in many ways, I see the name of 5.5 as a denigration of what it is, and one that this revision doesn't deserve.And besides... the only reason and time I ever call these games 5E14 and 5E24 to begin with is when I actually need to distinguish between the two... and when I don't need to, I just say 5E for everything anyway.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9643316, member: 7006"] Ah what the heck... I'll take a crack at your question! :) For me personally... that new 3.5 revision came so quickly on the heels of the original 3E (I think it was like just 3 years later?) that to me it felt like it wasn't a natural and needed revision to a game that had just become long in the tooth, but was more of a revision based on publishing and money. So in that regard, making a full break identity-wise from 3E seemed more appropriate. The game wasn't a "new edition" because the game didn't change substantially enough (in my opinion)... but it also wasn't just a slightly revised necessity. So calling it by a more substantial name change of 3.5 felt like an appropriate idea at the time. But 5E24 has never seemed like that to me. First of all it took them 10 years to finally do a published revision of 5E, so that in itself never gave the impression that it was similar to what 3.5 was or why it was made. And of course on top of that... no one at WotC ever deigned to call it 5.5 (unlike WotC straight out calling their revised game 3.5) so to me it just seems odd for me to call this revised game by the same naming convention of what was essentially a quick money-grab and which no one else at the company decided to do this time around. So in many ways, I see the name of 5.5 as a denigration of what it is, and one that this revision doesn't deserve. And besides... the only reason and time I ever call these games 5E14 and 5E24 to begin with is when I actually need to distinguish between the two... and when I don't need to, I just say 5E for everything anyway. :) [/QUOTE]

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