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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8607869" data-attributes="member: 87792">My experience is just the opposite. The more I see of Tasha's the more I like it. Meanwhile the more I look at Xanathar's the less I care if it's used. Fundamentally Xanathar's was written by the team that wrote the PHB and is full of ideas that they had for the PHB but left on the cutting room floor, while Tasha's was written by a team that had been playing 5e for years and understood its shortcomings and set out to both fix and expand the game. This means that I have wanted to play and have seen played far far more out of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything than I have Xanathar's Guide to Everything.Admittedly I do ban the Twilight Cleric - and only allow the Cleric of Peace if they are going to be played as a borderline pacifist cleric which the mechanics in no way enforce. But those are the only things.Fundamentally yes the sorcerer subclasses in Tasha's are just better than the subclasses in the PHB an Xanathar's. This is because the PHB sorcerer is the weakest full caster in the game, crippled by the number of spells they know. The Tasha's subclasses have levelled up to be in the same league as the wizard while also being stronger thematically. This doesn't make them broken. It just points out what utter drek e.g. the Storm Sorcerer is. And yes the Tasha's Beastmaster is better than the "give yourself an escort mission" PHB Beastmaster and it upgraded the base class - but the Ranger needed that.And then we have the interesting things being done with the druid class - from the ones that are interested enough in starts to have built Stonehenge to the fungal ones and the wildfire ones. A huge improvement.Buffing weak classes is not a balance issue; the balance issue is the existence of those weak classes in the first place. Buffing strong ones would be - but weak ones only brings them up to the benchmark. And the Tasha's subclasses are mostly to me interesting and inspiring in a way most of Xanathar's aren't. And yes this does push things a little. So what?</blockquote>

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