D&D 6th Edition announced (but they're calling it One D&D for now)

pcgamer.com:

Today at Wizards Presents, Wizards of the Coast announced that the next generation of Dungeons & Dragons(opens in new tab) is on its way via a massive public playtest called One D&D. This will include a revision of the core rulebooks: The Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual. This update will come alongside an offical digital toolset and virtual tabletop for D&D.(opens in new tab)

The new rules will be backwards compatible with 5th Edition, or 5E, the current version of the D&D rules. These have been around since 2014 and are probably the ones you play, statistically speaking. Don't panic: We knew this would come. It's not that drastic, and it has happened before.

Wizards of the Coast isn't calling the new ruleset D&D 6th Edition, but that's really what it is. If it doesn't pick an official name other than One D&D, players will call it 6E, or maybe 5.5. Trust me: Wizards tried to make 5E just «Dungeons & Dragons» for years, but we all called it 5th Edition anyway… and now Wizards itself calls it that. The «One D&D» thing won't last.

«One D&D is the codename for the next generation of Dungeons & Dragons that brings together updated rules, backwards compatible with 5th Edition, D&D Beyond as the platform for your D&D experience, and an early-in-development D&D digital play experience that will offer players and Dungeon Masters full immersion and rich 3D creation tools,» Wizards said in a press release.

«We did a smart thing with 5th edition by listening to the fans,» said D&D designer Chris Perkins, «and what came out of that process was a system that is stable, that is well-loved, that incorporates the best elements of earlier editions. Now that we have that we are no longer in the position where