So exciting times with the announcement of the "new" or "half new" version of 5th edition.
So one thing that has defined 5e is its slow pace of crunch. We have gotten two main player extensions (Xanathars/Tashas) and two main monster extensions (Volos/Mordenkainen's). The various other splats have given us a tidbit here or there, but these are the "official crunch books" we have gotten.
So with the new announcement, we will clearly get new crunch. Updated classes, spells, feats, etc. But it also seems like this is more of a reset of existing crunch than it is truly new things. Monsters are being updated....but how many more monsters are we getting? We are getting updated classes....but are we getting new ones?
In part it does seem like this semi-edition shift is once again slowing the crunch train even further, and I'm not sure I'm ok with that. I think 5e made the right decision to slow things down a bit, quality over quantity.....but at the same time after this many years I could stand to see a few more crunch books, and I worry that they are replacing that with.....well, replacements of all the stuff we already have.
So one thing that has defined 5e is its slow pace of crunch. We have gotten two main player extensions (Xanathars/Tashas) and two main monster extensions (Volos/Mordenkainen's). The various other splats have given us a tidbit here or there, but these are the "official crunch books" we have gotten.
So with the new announcement, we will clearly get new crunch. Updated classes, spells, feats, etc. But it also seems like this is more of a reset of existing crunch than it is truly new things. Monsters are being updated....but how many more monsters are we getting? We are getting updated classes....but are we getting new ones?
In part it does seem like this semi-edition shift is once again slowing the crunch train even further, and I'm not sure I'm ok with that. I think 5e made the right decision to slow things down a bit, quality over quantity.....but at the same time after this many years I could stand to see a few more crunch books, and I worry that they are replacing that with.....well, replacements of all the stuff we already have.