It will almost certainly be 5.5e or 6e. WotC just nicknames new editions things for weird reasons, they probably wont call 1DD 1DD after it's actually been released.
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I mean they don't really, officially, call the current edition 5th edition. The community does that, and maybe WotC folks sometimes call it that offhandedly, but I don't see it anywhere in their product listings or website or on the books. It's just called Dungeons & Dragons. And they've publicly said they want to get off the concept of editions and keep everything compatible. Whether or not they pull that off is a whole different question, but compatible is the company line. So probably they'll just keep calling it what they've been calling it. Giving it any kind of number could make people think it's not compatible.
Now, if I misunderstood the question, and you mean what will we players call it. Probably 5.5, but it will depend a lot on how much it changes.
I expect 6e. I feel like the changes will be more significant between 5e and whatever they end up calling this, than they are between 1e and 2e.
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Yeah. I think 5.5 probably makes the most sense. Even with the changes that have been put out so far with UA I don't think there's enough of a departure for 6. Plus if they put 6 out, all the tasty stuff from the last few months would have to be updated.
Way Back in the 1990s during 2nd Edition, they republished a bunch of books with new art, and covers, and cleaned up the wording on the books to be easier to read, and the fan base called that 2.5 Ed at the time (note this was while they were developing 3rd edition and the community was aware of it.)
Even if it is called One D&D on release (It wont be), we as a community will call it 5.5 unless they call it 6.0, which will cause everything after Tasha's to be 5.5... we will see when things are released.
I expect it will be 5.5, and Tasha's will become 5 1/4th :p
So what should it be called? I don't think it's 6. To many similarities. My suggestion...
5e xpert.
Any other thoughts?
It will be 6e. Compare the changes from 3.0e to 3.5e and you will see it is minor changes and that everything from before is compatible. Everything was just a rules clarification and improvements to the game with minor changes. 5e to 1D&D is no even compatible as it is a vast rules change that it is more comparable to the change from 2e to 3e.
So what should it be called? I don't think it's 6. To many similarities. My suggestion...
5e xpert.
Any other thoughts?
It will be 6e. Compare the changes from 3.0e to 3.5e and you will see it is minor changes and that everything from before is compatible. Everything was just a rules clarification and improvements to the game with minor changes. 5e to 1D&D is no even compatible as it is a vast rules change that it is more comparable to the change from 2e to 3e.
Agreed. It's 6th edition, but they're keeping the rules close enough to allow us to use or adapt 5e adventures easily. Everything about how players build and level their characters, and how they manage their spells, is getting a complete overhaul.
So what should it be called? I don't think it's 6. To many similarities. My suggestion...
5e xpert.
Any other thoughts?
It will be 6e. Compare the changes from 3.0e to 3.5e and you will see it is minor changes and that everything from before is compatible. Everything was just a rules clarification and improvements to the game with minor changes. 5e to 1D&D is no even compatible as it is a vast rules change that it is more comparable to the change from 2e to 3e.
Agreed. It's 6th edition, but they're keeping the rules close enough to allow us to use or adapt 5e adventures easily. Everything about how players build and level their characters, and how they manage their spells, is getting a complete overhaul.
I think the changes are closer to the differences between original 3e and Pathfinder. More than a .5, but less than a full edition, but I think 6e will be easier say/type than 5.75e lol.
It's just going to be called D&D. What WoTC wants is to remove the version, and the trouble it causes for some newbies. Obviously, removing the version seems more confusing to me, but I'm sure that's what they intend.
It will be D&D without a version. And the community is going to call it 5.5 because it is necessary to differentiate editions.
They're unlikely to officially call it 5.5 or 6e, because they insisted it wouldn't be a new edition (even though it will be) but a revision/expansion of the current one, "fully backward compatible" (sure...)
Dungeons & Dragons 50th Anniversary Edition
Dungeons & Dragons Gold Edition
or simply Dungeons & Dragons ...
with new logo, of course.
Unless, of course, the community's way of addressing the new system during playtest steers the designers to give up on their original idea and acknowledge the 5.5 or 6th edition label.
Honestly, what WotC calls it is irrelevant. 5e isn't the name of the current edition for example. The closer we get to the release of the new edition and how much is actually changing, the player base will decide to call it 5.5 or 6e and that will become the actual name used. I don't know why WotC even tries to avoid giving it a number. No matter what they say or do, it is getting a number anyway. It is just wasted money on marketing gibberish that everyone is pretty much just ignoring.
I could see them keeping "One D&D". I see D&D Gold as possible, but I could also see some sort of "Gold" product imprint for special 50th anniversary editions of the new books (sort of like the collector's varients hardcovers get but with a heavy gold aspect to them).
It is and it isn't true WotC doesn't call the present edition "5e". Yes, the player's handbook for instance is just the Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook on the cover, but the blurb on the back cover reads "When you're ready for even more, expand your adventures with the fifth edition Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual. So while maybe not explicitly calling the game 5e, 5e was definitely within the working vocabulary of discussing the game. Does that mean 6e will show up? Maybe? They have said they don't want to talk about it in a numbered edition though, claiming this will be the perfected or at least living rule set going forward.
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So what should it be called? I don't think it's 6. To many similarities. My suggestion...
5e xpert.
Any other thoughts?
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Gold edition. (it coming out on the "golden" anniversary of the original.)
Still holding out for 5.5e.
Simple, to-the-point, easy to type, and fits with their suggestion that they intend for the changes to be compatible with existing 5e material.
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It will almost certainly be 5.5e or 6e. WotC just nicknames new editions things for weird reasons, they probably wont call 1DD 1DD after it's actually been released.
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HERE.Probably just Dungeons & Dragons.
I mean they don't really, officially, call the current edition 5th edition. The community does that, and maybe WotC folks sometimes call it that offhandedly, but I don't see it anywhere in their product listings or website or on the books. It's just called Dungeons & Dragons. And they've publicly said they want to get off the concept of editions and keep everything compatible. Whether or not they pull that off is a whole different question, but compatible is the company line. So probably they'll just keep calling it what they've been calling it. Giving it any kind of number could make people think it's not compatible.
Now, if I misunderstood the question, and you mean what will we players call it. Probably 5.5, but it will depend a lot on how much it changes.
BoringBard and Xalthu are likely correct. WotC will keep just calling it Dungeons and Dragons. We will end up just calling it 5.5 or 6e.
I expect 6e. I feel like the changes will be more significant between 5e and whatever they end up calling this, than they are between 1e and 2e.
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Yeah. I think 5.5 probably makes the most sense. Even with the changes that have been put out so far with UA I don't think there's enough of a departure for 6. Plus if they put 6 out, all the tasty stuff from the last few months would have to be updated.
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Way Back in the 1990s during 2nd Edition, they republished a bunch of books with new art, and covers, and cleaned up the wording on the books to be easier to read, and the fan base called that 2.5 Ed at the time (note this was while they were developing 3rd edition and the community was aware of it.)
Even if it is called One D&D on release (It wont be), we as a community will call it 5.5 unless they call it 6.0, which will cause everything after Tasha's to be 5.5... we will see when things are released.
I expect it will be 5.5, and Tasha's will become 5 1/4th :p
It will be 6e. Compare the changes from 3.0e to 3.5e and you will see it is minor changes and that everything from before is compatible. Everything was just a rules clarification and improvements to the game with minor changes. 5e to 1D&D is no even compatible as it is a vast rules change that it is more comparable to the change from 2e to 3e.
Agreed. It's 6th edition, but they're keeping the rules close enough to allow us to use or adapt 5e adventures easily. Everything about how players build and level their characters, and how they manage their spells, is getting a complete overhaul.
I think the changes are closer to the differences between original 3e and Pathfinder. More than a .5, but less than a full edition, but I think 6e will be easier say/type than 5.75e lol.
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They could call it 5e Expert Edition and then we could call it 5eeeeeeeeee
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It's just going to be called D&D. What WoTC wants is to remove the version, and the trouble it causes for some newbies. Obviously, removing the version seems more confusing to me, but I'm sure that's what they intend.
It will be D&D without a version. And the community is going to call it 5.5 because it is necessary to differentiate editions.
They're unlikely to officially call it 5.5 or 6e, because they insisted it wouldn't be a new edition (even though it will be) but a revision/expansion of the current one, "fully backward compatible" (sure...)
Dungeons & Dragons
50th Anniversary Edition
Dungeons & Dragons
Gold Edition
or simply Dungeons & Dragons ...
with new logo, of course.
Unless, of course, the community's way of addressing the new system during playtest steers the designers to give up on their original idea and acknowledge the 5.5 or 6th edition label.
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Honestly, what WotC calls it is irrelevant. 5e isn't the name of the current edition for example. The closer we get to the release of the new edition and how much is actually changing, the player base will decide to call it 5.5 or 6e and that will become the actual name used. I don't know why WotC even tries to avoid giving it a number. No matter what they say or do, it is getting a number anyway. It is just wasted money on marketing gibberish that everyone is pretty much just ignoring.
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I could see them keeping "One D&D". I see D&D Gold as possible, but I could also see some sort of "Gold" product imprint for special 50th anniversary editions of the new books (sort of like the collector's varients hardcovers get but with a heavy gold aspect to them).
It is and it isn't true WotC doesn't call the present edition "5e". Yes, the player's handbook for instance is just the Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook on the cover, but the blurb on the back cover reads "When you're ready for even more, expand your adventures with the fifth edition Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual. So while maybe not explicitly calling the game 5e, 5e was definitely within the working vocabulary of discussing the game. Does that mean 6e will show up? Maybe? They have said they don't want to talk about it in a numbered edition though, claiming this will be the perfected or at least living rule set going forward.
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Why wouldn't it be called OneDnD? I mean the community might call it something else, but that won't matter for the official name.
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They will call it what they want to.
We'll call it whatever is easiest to google search and talk about.
Like every other thing, it's going to happen organically. We can make up funny guesses all day. But in the end, no one will be able to force it.
Yup. From the start it was kind of a self defeating naming system. Basic, Expert, Advanced....
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