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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7747335" data-attributes="member: 1465">These are pretty much established trends in 5e books, I wonder why people are still surprised about them:- Books are light. There is a lot less material compared to typical 3e books. For core books this is actually a good thing that mostly has to do with the game being simpler and actually needing less written stuff; so the 5e PHB has the same potential as the 3e PHB, even more classes and races actually, and lots of spells were merged, but overall the material needs less words (just check the difference in text size and space occupied by artwork). OTOH, for supplements it may not be that positive, but WotC doesn't have nearly as many designers it used to have in 3e, and they made it clear they won't release stuff unless they are sure about it (personally I think it's a bit bogus, I think they are now just caught into the habit of simply cutting down any UA material down to 2/3 just because, even if it would be fairly balanced already). Anyway, that's just to say that it is quite annoying to see people still expecting twice the stuff it could fit in a 5e book with the current layout, and then be disappointed.- Stuff gets reprinted. Whether they do it because they need some filler, or because they genuinely want to help those who don't buy adventures or settings book, it's going to happen again. - Books are hodgepodged. A book might have a theme, and a slant towards a certain type of material. But ultimately they release only 1 non-adventure book per year (maybe 2 in 2018), so it's inevitable that they will always have players' stuff that DMs don't need, and DM's stuff that players don't need. They probably won't double the release schedule, and they certainly won't leave 2 years between releasing a book that a DM or a player would buy. They also don't really plan books, but rather collect scattered ideas all the time through UA, and then figure out a possible theme.- The AL rule of "PHB+1" is going to stay, unless there is a change in management or there is a crisis with the popularity of AL. Just deal with the rule if you want to play AL, and remember that just as it could have been "PHB+2" it could have also been "PHB only". Anyway, due to the reprinting practice, I wouldn't be surprised if one day they release a "Best of 5e" book to effectively break the PHB+1 rule without formally dropping it.</blockquote>

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