Should there be a separate tag for One D&D?

Question

Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast announced the playtest material for its next iteration of D&D, codenamed One D&D. Later that day, they released the first Unearthed Arcana document with part of the new ruleset: Character Origins.

Where it gets complicated is that while this is playtest material for a new iteration, it is backward-compatible with all 5e products, as confirmed on yesterday's stream. The existing tag dnd-5e is of course relevant, but should there be a new tag (e.g. one-dnd) to specify that a question pertains to the new playtest ruleset?

Answer 1

I suggested in chat that we use one-dnd-playtest, similar to the tags we used for the 5e and PF 2e playtests, dnd-next-playtest and pathfinder-2e-playtest.

Questions strictly about the playtest material would not need dnd-5e, but questions about the interaction between playtest material and 5e material should get both tags. In the case that we see two system tags creating something of a tag burden, e.g. the question really needs four non-system tags, we can reevaluate those particular questions to see what works best in each case.

Answer 2

Writing a separate answer to keep voting for this proposal separate from the other.

Keep one-dnd-playtest separate from Unearthed Arcana content written for 5e

This one seems pretty straightforward, but I want to leave it here for confirmation via vote anyway. It seems quite plain that the One D&D playtest content is of a different substance than Unearthed Arcana content for 5th Edition. While the new playtest material is being referred to as Unearthed Arcana, it seems like a good idea to keep this next generation content distinct.

This would mean not using unearthed-arcana for One D&D content, unless, of course, the question was about the interaction between One D&D content and 5e Unearthed Arcana.

Answer 3

one-dnd-playtest is not necessarily dnd-5e

We have a few old dnd-next-playtest questions, which became dnd-5e eventually. The systems used in both were quite different at times. one-dnd[-playtest] is the next evolution of it on the way to dnd-6e or whatever they will assign as the next edition's name. So we should give it (or its playtest) its own tag.

In fact, I bet that in the future often the One-D&D[-playtest] questions should not have either dnd-5e or unearthed-arcana tag, as they are an ecosystem on their own, even if in flux and development. Once we have a sufficient... branch from the previous edition, we also shouldn't tag it that way!

Answer 4

I think it would be good to have a one-dnd tag as well as a one-dnd-playtest tag the same way we have a dnd-next-playtest and a dnd-5e tag, or a pf-2e-playtest and pf-2e tag. People are already getting confused between the two so being able to separate the two out would help stop the confusion. It's no replacement for editing questions to change "in one D&D blah blah" to "in the Character Origins UA blah blah", but it helps.