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What's one thing that pleasantly surprised you, and one thing that disappointed you about the PHB?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 6358685" data-attributes="member: 529"><p>Ha, lots of owls, noticed that last night.</p><p></p><p>For me, the pleasant surprise was the sheer number of options that look fun to play. The number of permutations available through choices of class and sub-class alone is great, more than any other PHB. I was concerned that many options would be weak or otherwise undesirable, but for the most part it seems like they created a large number of viable choices that should please lots of players. Almost all the subclasses looked appealing to me, or at least I know they will be to some of my players. They may or may not have missed the mark with the ranger and sorcerer (those were my least favorite), but IMO at worst they are average or maybe just not how I would have done them, and not outright bad, so that's pretty good for 12 classes and so many subclasses. </p><p></p><p>Backgrounds look solid too, adding a lot of needed flavor to new characters, and background is kept relevant throughout the campaign with mechanics like inspiration, skills and proficiencies, and features. Feats and multiclass rules look great, further adding to the number of choices, but I'm glad they've kept these optional. Races are well executed too; even though I'm not a personal fan of dragonborn and tieflings in the PHB, I appreciate that they included them for players who do like them, and I feel they were well done.</p><p></p><p>I don't really have any big disappointments, but there were some small things here and there I felt could be better or I would have preferred to be different. If I have to pick one thing, it would be the art. Illustrations in the equipment section especially seem like they could have been better, and more descriptive of what was actually listed. While not a huge disappointment to me, the art did not wow me like it did for some. I felt the quality to be overwhelmingly average. Though I did appreciate their efforts to illustrate some diversity in the types of characters, the execution left a little to be desired IMO. Many of the illustrations look like they just didn't have a lot of detail and maybe should have been smaller in scale, and I felt like there was too much quantity, not enough quality. That said, I found some of the art very enjoyable, and I appreciated the diversity of artists as well as subject matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gargoyle, post: 6358685, member: 529"] Ha, lots of owls, noticed that last night. For me, the pleasant surprise was the sheer number of options that look fun to play. The number of permutations available through choices of class and sub-class alone is great, more than any other PHB. I was concerned that many options would be weak or otherwise undesirable, but for the most part it seems like they created a large number of viable choices that should please lots of players. Almost all the subclasses looked appealing to me, or at least I know they will be to some of my players. They may or may not have missed the mark with the ranger and sorcerer (those were my least favorite), but IMO at worst they are average or maybe just not how I would have done them, and not outright bad, so that's pretty good for 12 classes and so many subclasses. Backgrounds look solid too, adding a lot of needed flavor to new characters, and background is kept relevant throughout the campaign with mechanics like inspiration, skills and proficiencies, and features. Feats and multiclass rules look great, further adding to the number of choices, but I'm glad they've kept these optional. Races are well executed too; even though I'm not a personal fan of dragonborn and tieflings in the PHB, I appreciate that they included them for players who do like them, and I feel they were well done. I don't really have any big disappointments, but there were some small things here and there I felt could be better or I would have preferred to be different. If I have to pick one thing, it would be the art. Illustrations in the equipment section especially seem like they could have been better, and more descriptive of what was actually listed. While not a huge disappointment to me, the art did not wow me like it did for some. I felt the quality to be overwhelmingly average. Though I did appreciate their efforts to illustrate some diversity in the types of characters, the execution left a little to be desired IMO. Many of the illustrations look like they just didn't have a lot of detail and maybe should have been smaller in scale, and I felt like there was too much quantity, not enough quality. That said, I found some of the art very enjoyable, and I appreciated the diversity of artists as well as subject matter. [/QUOTE]
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