D&D (2024) WotC has called the new ruleset 5.2. Why don't we?

[DarkCrisis]

What will you call 5.3, 5.4, or the 5.5 SRD releases...?

This isn't an SRD so...?

 

[Parmandur]

with a little trickiness from Black Flag's use of ORC..grrr)

Yeah, gotta be honest, if I were publishing 3rd party content, ORC would be a deal breaker when free and clear Creative Commons is sitting right there...

 

[Parmandur]

This isn't an SRD so...?

But that's the point of the thread, what to call the 2024 releases tied to the forthcoming 5.2 SRD. What will you call 5E revisions in future decades...? 5.5 is a silly name, and not future proofed.

 

[DrJawaPhD]

On May 6, Wotc said it would release SRD 5.2. It's the closest thing we have to an "edition" name from WotC, so why don't we just call it 5.2 and rest?

I like 5.2, it's shorter to say than every other term proposed thus far. No one has ever referred to DnD editions by the SRD number though, so I'm not sure it's going to catch on

 

[Parmandur]

I like 5.2, it's shorter to say than every other term proposed thus far. No one has ever referred to DnD editions by the SRD number though, so I'm not sure it's going to catch on

I mean, no prior Edition had this sort of SRD continuity.

 

[DarkCrisis]

But that's the point of the thread, what to call the 2024 releases tied to the forthcoming 5.2 SRD. What will you call 5E revisions in future decades...? 5.5 is a silly name, and not future proofed.

Any next version will be 5.75. Eventually they will do a 6. Or they can keep pretending it’s still 5E+.

Point being, every 5-10 years WotC will have a new core 3 to sale and then only reason they don’t call it 6E is because they don’t want to scare the newbies.

 

[Parmandur]

Any next version will be 5.75. Eventually they will do a 6. Or they can keep pretending it’s still 5E+.

Point being, every 5-10 years WotC will have a new core 3 to sale and then only reason they don’t call it 6E is because they don’t want to scare the newbies.

What comes after 5.75? And after that...?

 

[Marandahir]

What comes after 5.75? And after that...?

By that logic, v5.875. And then v5.9375.

 

[Parmandur]

By that logic, v5.875. And then v5.9375.

Zeno's Edition notation...

 

[DarkCrisis]

By that logic, v5.875. And then v5.9375.

Exactly.

Or Pathfinder 3