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I would only buy an updated PHB each year if it included updated art, and then only if it was different art direction than what put together this one.

Considering that the unarmed strike is listed as a simple weapon on the table, I would rule that n does, and by extension, I would consider all the other things you mentioned as well. I might make an exception for grappling. It would depend on the interaction of the particular rule and...

I love 5e. I'm playing 5e. With the exception of making ranged attacks more accurate than melee attacks (for fighters), I like pretty much every mechanical decision made with 5e. Even ones I didn't think I wouldn't like (like the battlemaster fighter) have largely won me over. Nearly every...

I'm glad someone does. For me, it's not the thing I dislike most about 5e art (that would be the dearth of masculine figures doing heroic things), but it's up there. When they pitched these halflings a year or so ago, I threatened to pitch the book across the room if they used these...

I would happily pay money for an art free PDF of the main books.

Assuming point buy, actually the +2 to one stat, +1 to another gives almost exactly the same benefit as +1 to all stats, assuming you want a 16 in the stat that you get a +2 in. When a race gets +2 to two stats, the human loses all advantage. No one's ever going to start with higher than a 16...

Ironically, that's what they had when the playtest started, and people screamed bloody murder until they were nerfed.

I just saw the Half-Elf: +2 to Charisma, +1 to two stats of your choice, Darkvision, advantage against charm and sleep, and two skills. Darkvision and advantage vs charm and sleep; has got to be worth at least a feat, so yes, I think Humans need a bump. I'm thinking about +1 to all stats...

Not sure what this has to do with anything. The human doesn't get particular better stats across the array than any other character race. As long as your race and class align, (like mountain dwarf fighter vs human fighter), they're going to wind up having almost exactly the same...

I prefer the variant rule, because the standard human benefit (+1 to every attribute) isn't a benefit. Using standard array, it's plain awful. Using point buy (which I assume will be the default for most people) it's a bit better than standard array, but all it does is mildly lower point cost...

There's nothing that says a warlock has to follow the dictates of his patron. He's not a cleric. He could be someone like Elric or Spawn, using infernal powers to fight the beings whose power he has. But that being said, I'm disappointed they didn't provide a more traditionally good option...

Hmm, gestalting fighter and monk together would be a good way to get an "ultimate fighter" and get rid of having two classes that are essentially the same thing (ie: premier martial artists).

The nice thing is that, if the Pact Blade Warlock is underpowered, the way it's constructed allows them to buff its power a little just by adding some new incantations in a later supplement.

Sorry to hear Planet Stories is defunct. I really liked that part of Paizo. I got my copies of the Jirel stories as well as her and her husbands Proud Robot stories from there.

There isn't really a right or wrong answer. It's all a question of relative value. In a years time, you probably won't remember what you spent the 20 dollars on that you will save if you purchase from Amazon, but at the same time, in a year, the two week wait for delivery will have ceased to...

I'm guessing that the inclusion of too many currently unlisted authors would have lead to the exclusion of some of the authors currently listed. It appears they wanted to keep a fair representative sample of the original Appendix N, as well as a selection of new authors, and the avoidance of...

Just an observation. It's possible to pick locks without thieve's tools. One just can't make the roll with proficiency. If one is jimmying a lock with a dagger for instance, there's no reason to worry about an improvised tool penalty. It's already built in.

that might still be useful assuming maybe you didn't have any darts, but maybe a plethora of beer steins.

You are correct; I mis-remembered. Unarmed strikes are simple weapons, but improvised weapons are their own separate category and not on that table. Okay, that makes this feat a little more interesting to me. I did note the bit about unarmed strike damage going up. I just don't think it's...

Most classes are already proficient with unarmed strikes and improvised weapons. They're simple weapons after all. It seems to me that's just to make the feat usable for corner cases that aren't automatically proficient with simple weapons. The real meat and potatoes is the bonus grapple...