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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7356730" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Ultimately it doesn’t matter to me since I neither play in nor run&nbsp; AL. That said, I think PHB+1 is a good idea. It allows WOTC to focus on balancing supplements internally and against the PHB, without having to worry about unforeseen combinations of otherwise fair options breaking organized play. With this rule, they don’t have to limit themselves when designing new books based on what came in old books - a spell that is fair on its own but becomes overpowered when combined with a Subclass ability from a different book doesn’t have to be toned down for fear of ruining AL, errata doesn’t have to be issued to fix unseen combinations, which frees those of us who play homebrew are free to deal with those game-breaking combinations in our own way as they arise. And I think excepting entire groups of options (like “all (sub)races”, from the PHB+1 rule undermines the design freedom PHB+1 allows. It’s one thing to say “racial variants for Tieflings and Half-elves from SCAG count as part of the core rules.” It’s quite another thing to say “all races currently existing and that we might ever design count as part of the core rules.” Heck, even saying “all options from XGTE count as part of the core rules” would be safer.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7356730, member: 6779196"] Ultimately it doesn’t matter to me since I neither play in nor run AL. That said, I think PHB+1 is a good idea. It allows WOTC to focus on balancing supplements internally and against the PHB, without having to worry about unforeseen combinations of otherwise fair options breaking organized play. With this rule, they don’t have to limit themselves when designing new books based on what came in old books - a spell that is fair on its own but becomes overpowered when combined with a Subclass ability from a different book doesn’t have to be toned down for fear of ruining AL, errata doesn’t have to be issued to fix unseen combinations, which frees those of us who play homebrew are free to deal with those game-breaking combinations in our own way as they arise. And I think excepting entire groups of options (like “all (sub)races”, from the PHB+1 rule undermines the design freedom PHB+1 allows. It’s one thing to say “racial variants for Tieflings and Half-elves from SCAG count as part of the core rules.” It’s quite another thing to say “all races currently existing and that we might ever design count as part of the core rules.” Heck, even saying “all options from XGTE count as part of the core rules” would be safer. [/QUOTE]

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