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Chris

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"humans are naturally selfish and evil" factoid actually just statistical error. former united states president ronald w. reagan,

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Proposals to refer to One D&D as "6th Edition" in order to spite Hasbro marketing don't go far enough. We should retroactively assign full edition numbers to every major core rules revision for which the game's publishers declined to do so, as follows:

  • White box OD&D is now 1st Edition
  • Holmes Basic is now 2nd Edition
  • AD&D 1st Edition is now 3rd Edition
  • BX/Moldvay Basic is now 4th Edition
  • BECMI/Mentzer Basic is now 5th Edition
  • AD&D 2nd Edition is now 6th Edition
  • The Rules Cyclopedia is now 7th Edition
  • The AD&D 2nd Edition Player's Handbook redux with the infamous "This Is Not 3rd Edition" foreword is now 8th Edition
  • Player's Option is now 9th Edition
  • D&D 3rd Edition is now 10th Edition
  • D&D 3rd Edition Revised (3.5E) is now 11th Edition
  • D&D 4th Edition is now 12th Edition
  • D&D Essentials is now 13th Edition
  • D&D Next (later informally rebranded as "5th Edition" due to consumer pressure) is now 14th Edition

Finally, this means the forthcoming One D&D is 15th Edition.

Make sense?

Oh boy I hate this.

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The burning sensation means it's working.

later informally rebranded as "5th Edition" due to consumer pressure

Wait, that's what happened? I thought it was just "next" while in playtest, then 5e upon release

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By the time of publication they'd dropped the "Next" part, but pointedly refused to adopt any edition nomenclature; the original printings of the 5E core books are simply branded "Dungeons & Dragons", with no edition number or other subtitle mentioned anywhere in the text. It would be several years before Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast would acknowledge that 5E was in fact 5E!

Gotta get married so I can avoid situations with a “oh sorry I can’t, my wife needs me home asap” and then go home to my beautiful wife