D&D 5E (2014) Tasha or xanathar's, choose one and why do you like it?

[not-so-newguy]

Thinking about purchasing one of these books. If you had to pick one and leave the other, which would you choose? Why?

I threw in a poll, but I am more interested in your reasoning.

 

[TwoSix]

If you don't have either, I'd go Xanathar's. The subclasses are a little more "iconic", and it has some nice rules about magic item creation, using downtime, and making tool usage better. The most important rule in Tasha's is the "floating race adjustment" rule, and you don't need the book to use it, since it's simple.

But really, you can't go wrong with either. Tasha's has a whole new class, a lot of good subclasses, and several very interesting new feats.

 

[billd91]

They’re both worthy, but Xanathar‘s is probably more of a go-to for running a typical game. It adds some stuff that gets more frequent use.

 

[Yaarel]

Oo. Though choice. Both Tashas and Xanathar have important content.

I need both.

 

[Rogerd1]

Honestly, Valda's Spire is totally excellent too, although I would leave the sub-class of Alchemist, Amorist, but other than that most of the other classes are cool.

 

[beancounter]

Overall, I found Xanny's book to be more useful for me. Although, I really liked the new summon spells in Tasha's.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Oh! a tough choice. I would go with Xanathar's, it just has a bit more to offer at the table, session to session. Both are good choices.

 

[Rogerd1]

Well worth possibly adding to the list could be Griffon's Saddlebag, and Character Options I-III as you can have talents which are different, but similar to feats.

That said though, Talents already exist as partial powers in Spheres of Power so there is a slight conflict there, though you could rename them easily enough.

 

[Yaarel]

Xanathars is useful for its tool proficiencies, downtime, including item crafting, magic item schedules, and nontheistic Cleric.

Tashas is useful for psionic options, Artificer, patrons, and character customization, including race feature swaps, class updates, and spell personalization.

Both have subclasses, plus expanded spell lists that consolidate, update, and add new.

 

[Charlaquin]

Both are very good, but if I could only pick one, I would go with Xanathar’s. Good mix of subclasses for every class, race feats, and some really solid DM-facing optional and variant rules. It also demystifies expected magic item progression, which I consider incredibly valuable.