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DndBeyond will now use "5.5e" as version label (dndbeyond-support.wizards.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/dnd@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/33813206

On the dndbeyond website you can filter the content you are looking for. In these filters, they will now use 5.5e instead of "2024"

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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The difference is that "DnD Next" was just a placeholder name, they were very clear about that and never intended to use it officially, same as OneDnD.

DnD 2024 never made any sense in the first place. Of the first three core manuals, only one was released in 2024 proper. It was just dumb and led to unnecessary confusion.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Oh, I'm not arguing about placeholder names. This whole issue is placeholder names escaping into the wild.

    To me personally though, "2024" felt like the last gasp of Hasbro trying to sell an infinitely-rolling, "DnD-as-a-service" dynamic. Fans broadly understand editions and expect them to come with a serious scope of updates, but "annuals" could be deliberately confusing and ephemeral. The hope was they'd seem "new and shiny" enough to still prompt fans to buy them.

    Or maybe that's just over-conspiratorial thinking. I dunno.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    It got by on the fact that it's cross-compatible with all the older content (same as 3 and 3.5), so putting out the PHB was enough to play the game. But they really did dance around that for a long time, insisting that it was not a separate version, when clearly there were lots of balance changes to classes and spells.

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