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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8607731" data-attributes="member: 7023840">If you remember 1e, then you remember Unearthed Arcana. To me, Tasha's is a lot like UA.When it was first released, people mostly OOOH and AAAH about all the cool new options. Because hey, everyone likes new stuff. Everyone loves it when there are new options, new possibilities.And, in fairness, UA did start to address some issues that were there in the underlying material - things like racial level limits.Problem was, the more people actually played with UA, the more they quickly realized that it completely destabilized the framework that came before it. In other words, even if some of the decisions that went into the core rules in 1e weren't always good, they were there for a reason- and this new material went against the framework. Which meant that UA was never fully integrated into 1e. And couldn't be.The decisions in UA were never really resolved into AD&amp;D until 2e.I think Tasha's is similar, albeit not as egregious. After all, very little is as egregious as comeliness, the Cavalier/Paladin rules, and the UA Barbarian.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8607731, member: 7023840"] If you remember 1e, then you remember Unearthed Arcana. To me, Tasha's is a lot like UA. When it was first released, people mostly OOOH and AAAH about all the cool new options. Because hey, everyone likes new stuff. Everyone loves it when there are new options, new possibilities. And, in fairness, UA did start to address some issues that were there in the underlying material - things like racial level limits. Problem was, the more people actually played with UA, the more they quickly realized that it completely destabilized the framework that came before it. In other words, even if some of the decisions that went into the core rules in 1e weren't always good, they were there for a reason- and this new material went against the framework. Which meant that UA was never fully integrated into 1e. And couldn't be. The decisions in UA were never really resolved into AD&D until 2e. I think Tasha's is similar, albeit not as egregious. After all, very little is as egregious as comeliness, the Cavalier/Paladin rules, and the UA Barbarian. [/QUOTE]

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