With D&D 5e's Basic Rules released today I think that we should make 5e the default tag that shows up and make dnd-next the synonym (its the other way around currently).
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I concur. We should have dnd-5e as the "real" tag, because "Dungeons & Dragons" is what it's being called, and it's the 5th in this particular edition-numbering series.
Then dnd-next should be a synonym of dnd-5e, since consensus seems to be to not have a separate tag for the playtest period rules.
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1\$\begingroup\$ How is the internet in general referring to it? \$\endgroup\$ Jul 4, 2014 at 0:17
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1\$\begingroup\$ Internet seems to be referring to it as the 5th edition, and D&D next for obvious historical reasons. \$\endgroup\$ Jul 4, 2014 at 2:02
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2\$\begingroup\$ For future readers: per the linked meta, [dnd-next-playtest] did eventually end up getting made as a separate tag from [dnd-5e]. \$\endgroup\$ Aug 2, 2021 at 19:20
I think there's some value at this point in separating them. The DnD Next questions deal with playtest-specific issues in some cases, so I would be more inclined to have [dnd-5e] and [dnd-5e-playtest] with [dnd-next] linked to the latter. Probably we should also go and look at which questions are still relevant to 5e (based on the Basic Rules) and tag them as both.
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\$\begingroup\$ See this answer, The mods and the community seem to think that ultimately its better to have 1 tag per edition \$\endgroup\$ Jul 3, 2014 at 18:36
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3\$\begingroup\$ Can we rename [dnd-next] to [dnd-next-playtest] before it's released? \$\endgroup\$ Jul 3, 2014 at 18:36