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Bump for related: First, it looks like the major omissions from 5.2 were resolved with 5.2.1, and I'm thrilled to see it. Thank you! I even printed out a personal copy to study in my spare time. I've gone over it some more—admittedly not a full deep dive—and it seems like there might be a...

These are my thoughts on it at the moment. I can't speak for Mike or anyone else. 1. Various online play tools like VTTs can only use SRD content because it is open-sourced. I believe most VTTs don't even have the option of using official D&D rulebook data. 2. There is no printable "Basic...

EDIT: The primary issues below were fixed in SRD 5.2.1. The original OP follows. --- I love that they've added some key rules, such as character creation steps, to this document over 5.1. It now can serve better as an "expanded" version of the 2014 Basic Rules PDFs, far moreso than the 5.1 SRD...

I would love to hear another experienced opinion on it. But I would think that its inclusion pretty much means you can use the text as presented in your own work, but out of caution, I wouldn't replicate that trademarked term beyond the left-in instances. As I understand it, trademark...

Also not a lawyer, but I would be cautious about using "D&D," beyond perhaps quoting that passage verbatim, as the terms of the CC-BY-4.0 license (Section 2.b.2) says:

How about we call them "[#] Hit Dice"? Instead of Level 1, a player character is a 1 HD PC, with his party facing monsters mainly of 1 or 2 HD. That's one less "level" being used in the rules mix. It would help to be in the rulebooks, for sure, and can attest to its usefulness: Sly Flourish's...

+1. --- Wasn't the first release of D&D 5th Edition the Basic Rules PDF that only mention Feats as an optional feature? Isn't that also the version that was showered with praise as an excellent, almost OSR-like edition of the game? I get the impression that the extra materials in the PHB not in...

Why is anyone tagging Morrus in this thread? Based on descriptions of OP's issue, wouldn't he...not be able to see this thread? Or did I miss something?

I think they explicitly mentioned that Brawler didn't make the cut in the video above. Around the time they're talking about the Psi Knight.

Now I know. Mystery solved.

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").

I was wrong about the name being Ancestries, but they must not have been consistent in calling it anything besides Race prior to now, because it was even called Race in the 2022 Character Origins UA made in preparation for this exact book.

Race is now called "Species" (wasn't it Ancestries or something in UA?). Interesting change. I know a lot of people advocated for that. (Also they're including more of them in the PHB this time.) EDIT: I was wrong about Ancestries.