D&D's clunkily-named 2024 ruleset, a revamp of 5e, finally throws up its hands and goes fine, we'll call it 5.5e on D&D Beyond, you win

Gnomes tinker away at a mechanical man.

Dungeons & Dragons, judging by the D&D Beyond site (which is owned by Wizards), is going through a bit of a revamp with its 2024 ruleset—in that it's finally giving in to semantic ease and normal naming convention and just calling itself 5.5th edition, or 5.5e. Well, on one specific website.

The system, originally dubbed OneD&D, is still 5e when you look at the bones—mind, there are some major and very important changes, such as tweaks to grappling rules, class redesigns, weapon masteries, and the like. But the core bread and butter of the ruleset wasn't enough to mandate a change to the big number by that little "e".