Following two years of swearing blind that the D&D 2024 rules update wasn't 5.5e, D&D Beyond (the game's online home) has come out to say… yeah, it's totally 5.5e.
In an FAQ discussing the matter, D&D Beyond has announced that it'll be referring to content from 2024 onward as "5.5e," because this lines up with what the community is already doing. More specifically, the site claims that this move matches "how the community already talks about the game and made things easier to understand." While the FAQ is quick to point out that this isn't a branding change for one of the best tabletop RPGs as a whole, it does feel a bit like the game is throwing in the towel and saying "OK, you win."
