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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 2799363" data-attributes="member: 2268">Just got my C&C PHB in from the ebay guy, and it's so brand new the pages still stick together a little bit, and you get that soft creaking sound of a book opened the first time. Aaaaaah, excitement! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> From my first glance, it doesn't look too bad, layout-wise. Some of the special ability headers in the class descriptions could have been boldened, or italicized, to set them apart from the main body of text. The spell properties might have profited from getting their own lines of space instead of being tacked on to the descriptive text. And what I view as very positive in layout, the text is rarely broken up by a table, there's no callouts or sidebars to divert your eyes from the main text. Maybe I'm simply an easily distracted guy, but those elements (used pretty often in the 3E books I own) simply make it very hard for me to sit down with a 3E rulebook and read it. The layout in the C&C PHB actually invites me to sit down and simply read it through. A big bonus for me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Now I can't wait for the 2nd printing to hit the stores. maybe I'm lucky on ebay again then. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Edit: one thing I'm missing is an easily detachable character sheet..or at least one that can be copied out of the book. I know that's nothing in the age of downloadable, customizable character sheets, but it would have felt nice. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Oh, and did I miss that rule about adding your level for class abilities only in the boxed rules, or is that new in the PHB? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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