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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9457962" data-attributes="member: 54629">I think it will turn out to be a positive thing in the long term - we need younger players to join games to keep the hobby alive!No, it doesn't - which I think is a factor in itself. By being mostly setting neutral, it caters better to all sorts of worldbuilding styles! The 2014 PHB, on the other hand, tried to be all multiversal but still had more FR in it than any other setting.I think it's a smart move to make the player-facing PHB as setting neutral as possible. That will lessen the potential for conflict / confusion between the default rules and setting-specific exceptions. One of the more irksome things for me as a DM is trying to explain to my more casual players that they need to ignore what their book says because in my game world, X, Y, or Z is different. The less X, Y, or Z there is in the PHB the better - because that way the X, Y, or Z can be added on top of what the PHB says rather than replacing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 9457962, member: 54629"] I think it will turn out to be a positive thing in the long term - we need younger players to join games to keep the hobby alive! No, it doesn't - which I think is a factor in itself. By being mostly setting neutral, it caters better to all sorts of worldbuilding styles! The 2014 PHB, on the other hand, tried to be all multiversal but still had more FR in it than any other setting. I think it's a smart move to make the player-facing PHB as setting neutral as possible. That will lessen the potential for conflict / confusion between the default rules and setting-specific exceptions. One of the more irksome things for me as a DM is trying to explain to my more casual players that they need to ignore what their book says because in my game world, X, Y, or Z is different. The less X, Y, or Z there is in the PHB the better - because that way the X, Y, or Z can be added on top of what the PHB says rather than replacing it. [/QUOTE]

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