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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 6368751" data-attributes="member: 6777737">I totally 100% agree on the spells chapter.  I know they wanted to avoid shortened spell descriptions like 3e had because too many players never looked up the spell.  However, for the classes that care about them they should have listed the spell schools.  They could have intentionally incomplete spell descriptions, too, like they could describe Fireball as "Deals fire damage in a large area."  That tells you what the spell does, but you still have to look at spell to know what it really does.  And they could have put page numbers on the spell lists, too!  That costs like nothing!  I also think they should have classes and domains that have access to the spell in the spell description.  All you need to do is match the spell lists back.The whole organization of spells is just super lackluster and plain sloppy.  It's not as bad as 1e, but it's certainly not better than 3e.I'm not a fan of the halfling art.  I just don't like it.  Personal preference.  The ones on p26 and p132 are the ones that did it.  They look like caricatures.  It didn't bother me at first, but the more I see it the less I like it.  The one on p132 looks like a Tom Wilkinson or J.T. Walsh caricature with mutton chops.Most of all I'm irritated that they didn't include a foreword explaining what they were trying to do with a new edition of D&D.  Like, they could have printed the Bounded Accuracy article or something.  Nope!  Existing players have to guess why Proficiency Bonuses are the way they are and why spellcasters have so few spells now.  That's just infuriating when people like Spoony pick up the book and clearly just don't get what Mearls & company are trying to do.  Everything in the PHB acts like there's no such thing as D&D prior to this edition.  It's just... I don't understand.  There's 30 years of this game already in print, and you don't want to tell us why you thought a new edition was a good idea?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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