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And could we please have a mod move the thread into the AL forum?
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Except the whole damn point of the PHB+1 rule is to prevent unforeseen combinations and minimize min-maxing. Splatbooks, like the anticipated major rules expansion, are the sole reason the rule exists.Probably because of the anticipation this book will contain so much more; completely overshadowing the existing options: Unless the rule is changed, that nobody will pick the existing options any longer.
Mind you, this is conjecture in several layers.
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So the PHB+1 rule will probably be a good guideline for home games as well in the future, once there are more character options for 5E.
Maybe.
But August 2017 will be three years after the edition was released. Three years after 4e was launched, Essentials had been out for a full year. Three years after 3e was launched, they were just rolling out 3.5e.
Okay, I'll try a more blunt approach:Except the whole damn point of the PHB+1 rule is to prevent unforeseen combinations and minimize min-maxing. Splatbooks, like the anticipated major rules expansion, are the sole reason the rule exists.
I think people who want to play a swashbuckler or goliath with continue to use the old. If an existing option is the character you want and gave wanted for months, the new shiny is irrelevant.
And two months after the book is out, and it is just one more book on the shelf, the anticipation ceases to be a thing. To new players or people still on their first or second character, the BBoC is no more exciting than SCAG or Volo.
The PHB is never a source you can choose to forego. It's always PHB+1 for obvious reasons.I suspect if they add a new class that casts spells they would have to modify it to PHB + UA + 1 or the spellcaster in UA won't be able to take any spells from the PHB, which would be strange.
But so far I've liked the idea of PHB + 1 in AL. The reasons I don't play AL have nothing to with that and everything to do with the inconsistency of players at my FLGS.
So far we've been given much breadth but almost no depth.If an existing option is the character you want and gave wanted for months, the new shiny is irrelevant.