D&D 5E Using "D&D 2024" instead of "5e24"

[MonsterEnvy]

Never heard the term 5e24 until now.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Never heard the term 5e24 until now.

I haven't either. OTOH, I think it's a good name for it. I don't find the concern on whether we'd be talking about WotC-branded D&D or not to be all that important. I mean, when I say "D&D" I often don't mean WotC-branded D&D, so I don't know why 5e would be any different.

@SlyFlourish is probably right that it would be better to differentiate the two, I suppose, but I find that context usually does the trick. (I'd say that the "longer vs shorter" argument could be mitigated somewhat by using D&D24 rather than the longer D&D 2024, but it's neither here-nor-there.

No one's ever gonna get me to call it "five-point-five", though! IMO, dumbest naming convention best left to 20+ years ago where it belongs, and not even then.

 

[KYRON45]

It's always curious to me that there is at least one post in every thread about how someone hates D&D.
I'm not buying vegan food but I don't go into "enter name of vegan restaurant here" and shout.....I'm not going to be buying anything you serve!!!

Seems like Wotc missed the boat on releasing a 50th anniversary edition. It's almost like they don't have a marketing department at all.

What we call it seems like it will depend on where you are and whos involved in the conversation. At some point it all becomes pedantic doesn't it? Does this mean that most threads are going to devolve on what version were "really" talking about now instead of how terrible 4e was? But we all know that words mean things so I'd probably refer to it as 5e revised edition.

Were technically on the 12th or 15th version of the game anyway aren't we?

 

[Scribe]

At some point it all becomes pedantic doesn't it?

Uhh...welcome to the Enworld forums.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I've seen more use of the phrase "5e24" to identify the 2024 revisions to the D&D 5th edition core books. I get it. It's nice and pithy and easy to type.

But I think it's inaccurate. Instead, I propose using "D&D 2024" or something similar for referencing the upcoming D&D core book revisions.

Why does this matter?

There's a huge wealth of awesome 5th edition material already out and coming out in 2024 that isn't coming from Hasbro under the D&D brand. Tales of the Valiant from Kobold Press and C7D20 from Cubicle 7 are two examples, but we already have systems like A5e and certainly we'll see new 5e material from many publishers in the new year.

One major problem I frequently see is people overweighting Hasbro's influence to the overall hobby. No doubt D&D is huge – orders of magnitude bigger than the next most popular systems. But that doesn't matter once someone is in the hobby. At that point, any 5e products from any publisher are just as potentially valuable as any others. When two books are on your table, it doesn't matter how many copies sold for one over the other. Good books are good books.

I've seen many who, being vexed at Hasbro swore off not only D&D but all of 5e. That's not needed. One can play 5e for the rest of one's life without needing any material from any single company.

5e is an open platform now – like Linux. There are many flavors and we can choose, mix, and match our own version of 5e we run at our own table.

I love 5e. It's my favorite TTRPG system. And I'm really glad I can play it without having it's future dictated by the whims of any single company.

But when we say things like "5e24" instead of "D&D 2024" we're giving authority to one company and discouting the incredible work of many others for this wide open hobby.

I don't expect everyone to follow my path on this. But I thought I might try to do my part to help keep 5e strong regardless of what any one company decides to do with their variant of the system.

This is why it's always, "WotC D&D" to me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I just call it 5.5. Easier to say that dnd24 or 5e 2024.

The only problem with that is that it implies all other 5e publishers that aren't explicitly following WotC's coat tails are behind a step, as if WotC's minor adjustments so you feel you have to buy new books are some kind if cutting edge new tech you need to jump on.

 

[Stormonu]

5.5, that's my final answer.

I'll be curious to see how long before the next iteration comes out, I'm hoping this one lasts us another ten years ... but I seriously doubt it.

 

[cbwjm]

The only problem with that is that it implies all other 5e publishers that aren't explicitly following WotC's coat tails are behind a step, as if WotC's minor adjustments so you feel you have to buy new books are some kind if cutting edge new tech you need to jump on.

I don't think that's true because it doesn't really matter what you call it, people will always think that the latest books from wotc are must haves.

 

[mamba]

I'll be curious to see how long before the next iteration comes out, I'm hoping this one lasts us another ten years ... but I seriously doubt it.

my guess is anywhere from 6 to 8, but who knows

 

[payn]

5.5, that's my final answer.

I'll be curious to see how long before the next iteration comes out, I'm hoping this one lasts us another ten years ... but I seriously doubt it.

The answer will lie in the VTT.