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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9377200" data-attributes="member: 7006">Unless I've misunderstood them... at the end of the day what it seems like [USER=12731]@CapnZapp[/USER] wants is merely a Xanathar's or Tasha's style rulebook that only specifically edits / changes / adds a small set of things.&nbsp; So you basically still have to use the Player's Handbook for all the main rules of the game, with just the changes provided by the smaller expansion book.&nbsp; Which they correctly state is different than a lot of the other 5E expansions out there (Level Up, Tales of the Valiant, other 5E heartbreakers etc.) that re-do the entirety of the WotC 5E PHB and create their own complete Player's Handbook out of it for their own game.The reason why a number of these publishers do that I think is pretty self-explanatory-- it allows a player to not have to reference two books at once, going back and forth between them and trying to ignore the bits in the WotC 5E PHB that have been changed or removed.&nbsp; A fully re-written tome of each chapter in the PHB is just easier overall to read and you don't have to remember which parts of the WotC book don't apply to the new version because those parts have been removed.&nbsp; But in Capn's best case scenario, it seems like the changes they envision are not so intricate that it would be necessary for ease-of-use to reprint the PHB rules, but rather like Xanathar's and Tasha's, they just get inserted in.Whether or not the rules that CapnZapp is desiring are worth it to someone to write and then publish in a small expansion book though is the real question.&nbsp; And at least at this point the answer seems to be No.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9377200, member: 7006"] Unless I've misunderstood them... at the end of the day what it seems like [USER=12731]@CapnZapp[/USER] wants is merely a [I]Xanathar's[/I] or [I]Tasha's[/I] style rulebook that only specifically edits / changes / adds a small set of things. So you basically still have to use the Player's Handbook for all the main rules of the game, with just the changes provided by the smaller expansion book. Which they correctly state is different than a lot of the other 5E expansions out there ([I]Level Up[/I], [I]Tales of the Valiant[/I], other 5E heartbreakers etc.) that re-do the entirety of the WotC 5E PHB and create their own complete Player's Handbook out of it for their own game. The reason why a number of these publishers do that I think is pretty self-explanatory-- it allows a player to not have to reference two books at once, going back and forth between them and trying to ignore the bits in the WotC 5E PHB that have been changed or removed. A fully re-written tome of each chapter in the PHB is just easier overall to read and you don't have to remember which parts of the WotC book don't apply to the new version because those parts have been removed. But in Capn's best case scenario, it seems like the changes they envision are not so intricate that it would be necessary for ease-of-use to reprint the PHB rules, but rather like [I]Xanathar's[/I] and [I]Tasha's[/I], they just get inserted in. Whether or not the rules that CapnZapp is desiring are worth it to someone to write and then publish in a small expansion book though is the real question. And at least at this point the answer seems to be No. [/QUOTE]

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