D&D (2024) What do we call One D&D?

[hbarsquared]

With the first playtest document out for the next iteration of D&D, the most important question arises...

What do we call it?!?

There's also these important changes:

• Capitalizing all rule names
• Defining a d20 Test
• Calling out "Repeatable" in every Feat
• No half-races
• No background "Features"
• Only 3 spell lists
• 3 starting languages
• Critical auto-success/failure on skill checks
• Improvised now = furniture
• Tool + Skill Proficiency grants Advantage

To name a few...

 

[Vaalingrade]

D-Bone.

 

[Maxperson]

It's D&D 5.5. I'm not going to call it the gimmicky name they came up with.

 

[Stormonu]

6E.

 

[Zardnaar]

5.5 really

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Yeah, it's 5.5e. Call a spade a spade. It's a revision of a previous ruleset, rather than a whole new ruleset attempting to do the same thing.

 

[bedir than]

It's also still just the project codename to unify their print, digital and VTT under an updated version of 5e.

One D&D isn't the final name

 

[Parmandur]

It's D&D 5.5. I'm not going to call it the gimmicky name they came up with.

To be fair, 3.5 was also a BS gimmicky name in 2003.

 

[Vaalingrade]

This is going to be just like when they tried to get us to call 5e D&D Next/ Just Plain D&D.

Fetch isn't going to happen, WotC.

 

[Parmandur]

This is going to be just like when they tried to get us to call 5e D&D Next/ Just Plain D&D.

Fetch isn't going to happen, WotC.

I mean, outside of the Forum world, WotC mostly succeeded on having people just call 5E "D&D" plain and simple. If they keep the trade dress and logo, and keep on just calling it D&D...the can probably keep that up. Same as Monopoly or Settlers of Catan, despite Edition shifts for those games.