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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Transformer" data-source="post: 6309326" data-attributes="member: 70008">Mostly good stuff that I'm very excited about. I'm gonna talk about the stuff that I don't like, though, because hey, this is an RPG forum.I don't like Drow in the PHB. Evil races don't belong in the PHB. If they're retconning the Drow so that they're not generally evil, that's dumb. And Drizzt is extra dumb.I don't particularly like how all-in they're going on this Forgotten Realms thing. I know Forgotten Realms wasn't the default setting in 3e or 4e, but damn, it sure feels like it was. It was used in organized play, it always seems to be the first setting published. Eh. I suppose it's not really any worse than just not having a default setting. Filing serial numbers off adventures isn't very hard.This is little disconcerting. Despite assurances that they "tried whenever possible that within the stat block we give you everything you need to run the monster," we are apparently back to NPC spellcasters having laundry lists of spells that you will then have to look up in the rules if you don't have them completely memorized. Nothing could disappoint me more than for them to take one of the few areas in which 4e is flat-out objectively superior to 3e and then backpedal on it. I wish like hell the monster and NPC statblocks really did have everything you need detailed right there.</blockquote>