I am not likely to adopt 5.5, but I really like this change. Flipping between and owning multiple player books is an issue with newer casual players in particular.
Pretty sure I remember them saying the stuff left over from XGE and TCE that doesn't get plugged into a new core book will get republished in a standalone book (they could call it "Xanathar's and Tasha's Tasty Leftovers").
There's a bunch of classes from the 2014 PHB that are leftover too, like the Tempest Cleric and the Necromancer Wizard.
Thanks for saving me 20 minutes.
This would be worth seeing in the PHB.
I've always felt that the swashbuckler should be a fighter subclass, rather than a rogue. Rogue can't use a scimitar or cutlass, and can't use a buckler, leading to the subclass not able to do anything which people picture it doing.
I'd love aasimar to come to the PHB, as the opposite of tieflings.This would be worth seeing in the PHB.
Assassin would make sense, under similar logic to the justification for the removal of the Assassin class in 2e - anyone who commits political murder and/or murder for higher is an assassin, so having it be a subclass is a bit unusual. More importantly, they’ve struggled to come up with a satisfying version of the Assassinate feature. Players want such a feature to significantly increase damage, but the designers don’t one one subclass to have significantly higher damage output than the others (to their credit, I think). So, rather than continue to struggle to crack that nut, cut the subclass and replace it with a psychic subclass, since that’s something there’s a certain demand for anyway.
