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

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

  • 3e-like naming: 2014 version is 5.0(e), 2024 version is 5.5(e)

    Votes: 39 35.1%
  • SRD-based naming: 2014 version is 5.0, 2024 version is 5.2

    Votes: 15 13.5%
  • Year-based naming (with e): 2014 version is 5e14 (or 5e2014), 2024 version is 5e24 (or 5e2024)

    Votes: 18 16.2%
  • Year-based naming (with dot): 2014 version is 5.14, 2024 version is 5.24

    Votes: 8 7.2%
  • PF2-like naming: 2014 version is 5e, 2024 version is 5e revised/5eR or Revised 5e/R5e

    Votes: 8 7.2%
  • Anniversary naming: 2014 version is 5e, 2024 version is 5ae (anniversary ed.) or 50e (50 year ed.)

    Votes: 3 2.7%
  • Movie-like naming: 2014 version is D&D (2014), 2024 version is D&D (2024)

    Votes: 8 7.2%
  • Old and new: 2014 version is old 5e, 2024 version is new 5e

    Votes: 6 5.4%
  • Year prefix: 2014 version is 2014 D&D, 2024 version is 2024 D&D

    Votes: 6 5.4%

I've been calling it R5E, for "Revised 5th Edition."
I'll probably keep calling it that, regardless of what it's actual name ends up being.
 

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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. 😋
Anniversary Edition.
 





Might be better to do an elimination tournament.

I.e. what is your LEAST favorite way to call it.
Those tournaments tend to result in the most obscure − rather than most loved or least hated. I doubt obscure helps here for a naming convention.
 


It is a new edition. The changes are more intensive and extensive than when 1e AD&D went to 2e. This is 6e.
Well, that depends. Are we using the definition of edition used by TSR and most other RPG companies--"revise the rules, fix the trouble spots, and require some level of conversion or rebuilding"--or the definition of edition adopted by WotC--"Scrap all prior stock, condemn the immediately previous edition to damnatio memoriae for at least 4 years and possibly all eternity, fire the existing fans, make grandiose promises about how it's even more the same game than before, and take further steps down the road to perdition"?

;)
 
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