D&D (2024) What is your preferred naming for the 2014 and 2024 versions of D&D?

[schneeland]

Thus far, if we add up all the many many ways of saying "It's 2014 vs 2024," assuming Schneeland didn't vote and thus adding 1 more for them, it happens to be precisely tied for "5.0/5.5" vs "all the ways of saying 2014 vs 2024."

There is indeed a vote for 5.0/5.5 from me in there (I would have abstained, but voting makes it easier to check on the poll results from time to time), but I had to contemplate a bit over this option and 5e/5eR. I like both for their brevity, and to me they also communicate well enough that things changed more than they would with typical errata, but less than a full (D&D) edition. Also, they subjectively flow best for me.

 

[Yaarel]

I didnt see the option.

5e 2014
5e 2024

All of it is "5e". The years "2014" versus "2024" only show up if wanting to compare.

 

[schneeland]

I didnt see the option.

5e 2014
5e 2024

That would be the third option. I have grouped this with 5e14 and 5e24.

 

[Corinnguard]

The 5 is redundant, just call it "AE". The subtilty harkens back to AD&D that way.

AE as in Advanced Edition? In what way is 2024 D&D a more advanced version of 2014 D&D? It's more like 3.5 in that it is a revision of what's already in 5e. It would need something more to earn the word advance in its' title.

Besides there already is a 5e-adjacent RPG that IMO has earned the use of that word.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

There is indeed a vote for 5.0/5.5 from me in there (I would have abstained, but voting makes it easier to check on the poll results from time to time), but I had to contemplate a bit over this option and 5e/5eR. I like both for their brevity, and to me they also communicate well enough that things changed more than they would with typical errata, but less than a full (D&D) edition. Also, they subjectively flow best for me.

Pardon, I misspoke, confusing you for SlyFlourish, who had said they hadn't voted.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

AE as in Advanced Edition? In what way is 2024 D&D a more advanced version of 2014 D&D? It's more like 3.5 in that it is a revision of what's already in 5e. It would need something more to earn the word advance in its' title.

Besides there already is a 5e-adjacent RPG that IMO has earned the use of that word.

Most likely "Anniversary" rather than "Advanced," but either is possible.

 

[Hriston]

I voted for the second option with the caveat that, for everything from early 2016 forward, I prefer 5.1.

 

[Corinnguard]

Most likely "Anniversary" rather than "Advanced," but either is possible.

I could see that being a possibility. Then it would be An5e.

 

[Parmandur]

2014 is also an anniversary edition, abd the next iteration of 5E in a decade will probavly be so, as well.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I didnt see the option.

5e 2014
5e 2024

All of it is "5e". The years "2014" versus "2024" only show up if wanting to compare.

They are making new books with information directly replacing the old ones. You always have to compare. Every time someone says "5e" you now need to ask which one they're talking about. And that assumes you're talking about one of the WotC ones...