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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9643752" data-attributes="member: 7006">Heh, oh, of course.&nbsp; They know and we know we will never stop talking about 5E14 (or any of the previous editions for that matter.)&nbsp; But since they won't... there's less of a need for them to create distinguishing nomenclature for it.&nbsp; They did it with 3.5 because as I said further up... I think they knew they were doing that release for the money and they wanted to give even more reason to make people think buying the new core books was important.&nbsp; New name... possible consideration by some people that it's a new edition... more reason people will take from it to buy the new books.But I've never gotten any impression that the 5E24 books were being done because of wanting/needing the cash flow.&nbsp; Rather, they did it both in honor of the 50th Anniversary, and because they merely had a number of issues with certain rules and certain proud nails and whatnot that they had been wanting to fix and revise at some point down the road (without trying to jam all of it into errata documents-- which is what they did with 4E much to many players resentment).&nbsp; Which is why they've always said that it's not a new game / new edition or whatever... it's just a revision and thus why they just stuck with their standard nomenclature I suspect.&nbsp; To them, it's the same game just with some fixes and a few added goodies and if people wish to buy the books fine... but if people don't, that also doesn't matter because all subsequent books being released will be able to be bought and used by players of both the old and new core books.&nbsp; So in the long run what people decide to do regarding their choice of 5E doesn't matter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9643752, member: 7006"] Heh, oh, of course. They know and we know we will never stop talking about 5E14 (or any of the previous editions for that matter.) But since they won't... there's less of a need for them to create distinguishing nomenclature for it. They did it with 3.5 because as I said further up... I think they knew they were doing that release for the money and they wanted to give even more reason to make people think buying the new core books was important. New name... possible consideration by some people that it's a new edition... more reason people will take from it to buy the new books. But I've never gotten any impression that the 5E24 books were being done because of wanting/needing the cash flow. Rather, they did it both in honor of the 50th Anniversary, and because they merely had a number of issues with certain rules and certain proud nails and whatnot that they had been wanting to fix and revise at some point down the road (without trying to jam all of it into errata documents-- which is what they did with 4E much to many players resentment). Which is why they've always said that it's not a new game / new edition or whatever... it's just a revision and thus why they just stuck with their standard nomenclature I suspect. To them, it's the same game just with some fixes and a few added goodies and if people wish to buy the books fine... but if people don't, that also doesn't matter because all [I]subsequent[/I] books being released will be able to be bought and used by players of both the old and new core books. So in the long run what people decide to do regarding their choice of 5E doesn't matter. [/QUOTE]

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