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This really doesn't make any sense to me, in pretty much every way. In the "White Book" as it were, you state that you want there to be a shoe string budget, with no extra books, no splat, no campaign guides, or anything of the sort. Yet later on, you mention that there will be a variety of...

I agree it's bad art, but getting shocked/dismayed is a bit of an overreaction.

What makes you think less art would mean more content? I doubt the artists had anything to do with any of the writing, nor did the layout designers have anything to do with either.

As others have said, this likely isn't a zero sum game, i.e., we have all this art but only 316 pages so let's cut down on the amount of material. I wager it was more of a "here's all of the stats, flavor, crunch, how can we fit it into this book while keeping the layout well designed?" and then...

Huh, not entirely sure what you're referring to here. Are you talking about when they have a table and highlight every other entry with blue? Or when they have a variant with a light colored background? I don't have the greatest eyesight by any means, but I haven't heard of anyone having much...

Gosh, how can someone be offended by art in an RPG book that doesn't have outright nudity or violence?

Mammoths are freaking scary. Green hags can be pretty powerful as well with Illusory Appearance. Remember, in 5E, everything stays powerful for much longer. Casting the spell for a Mammoth would be a major attribute for the party. Two mammoths on their own is a Medium encounter for four level 12...

Looks to be somewhere around there. The archmage in the back is an 18th level spell caster and is only a challenge rating 12. I don't think they really thought at all about how characters would relate to challenge rating because characters have far more abilities than any monster has. How do you...

Every time I flip through it, the Peryton really freaks me out. Definitely a monster I had never thought about until now, and I'm definitely going to use it in a campaign somewhere.

I have to ask as well, what about the Pathfinder books blows them out of the water? They seem very similar to the 3.5 ones to me, which were a bit lacking in flavor. The thing that sticks out to me most about them though is the amount of needless titillation. Seriously, did a trumpet archon...

Are... are you serious?

Play with his expectations. Change up monsters, give some different abilities that aren't in the book. When it comes to traps or magic items, he can't see what's coming anyway so that shouldn't be a problem. If he complains about anything, put down your foot. You're the DM, you have the last...

PC are meant to fight monsters, not other PCs. Making a build purely built to fight other players is somewhat irrelevant.

Like the adventure? That's essentially the only thing that FR gets over everything else, and that's likely because it's the most well known campaign setting. For instance, under the Knowledge Domain, they list Oghma (FR), Boccob (Greyhawk), Gliean (Dragonlance), Aureon (Eberron), and Thoth...

Extra damage? Resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage?

While it makes sense that FR is the default setting, there's nothing in the PHB to indicate that. They never strictly make references to only one scenario's Gods, and frequently give examples of various different settings. Dragonlance, for instance, is referenced numerous times, as well as...

No kidding this makes the game darker! But even though I'm a fan of quick healing and resurrecting, I love what you've done here. Some excellent little points on all of the types of damage, and some feel especially brutal and realistic (Acid damage is particularly nasty). In fact, the more I...

Hmm.. you may be right about that. I was mostly thinking of Pathfinder and 13th Age. Good catch.

Pretty much every popular RPG has a way to do this. Probably because people enjoy their characters and would rather continue to play the one they already have rather than roll up a new one they have no attachment to.