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<blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 7847385" data-attributes="member: 7015558"><p>If you read the reactions to the UA in that post, people seem pretty happy with the additions. They're inclusion also doesn't turn 5E into "5.5E." I'm not even sure what that means; that one UA doc doth not a new edition make.</p><p></p><p>To me, it's one of three things;</p><p></p><p>1. Re-released PHB, that incorporates these changes into a re-printing. I really doubt it is this because it will make people confused and talk about "Is this 5.5?" but it is also not unprecedented in game systems. Hey, Tyranny of Dragons just happened too.</p><p></p><p>2. It's a new Xanathar's Guide. This is the likeliest to me, because although what we've seen so far only points to 35 pages (not including art), this is what we've gotten <em>so far</em>. There can be more material that they're confident it, or even more UAs down the line.</p><p>And more than half of Xanathar's was tools for the DM, not the players.</p><p></p><p>3. It's a setting book. This is possible, but this material is a lot more generic and pointed to any game as opposed to a specific <em>setting's </em>game. And I think the main point of a setting book is, well the setting and not the player options (unless the player options are specifically tailored to the setting, which these aren't really).</p><p></p><p>So I'm thinking this is a Xanathar's, though it will obviously be called something else. I could very easily see it called something like Chandra's Planeswalker's Playbook (or some other person or whatever), integrating more generic rules on how to be a planeswalker and play in Magic the Gathering settings more generally. Maybe provide fluff for how the MtG planes fit within D&D's cosmology. Not really a setting book, not entirely a player's book either (you know, like Xanathar's).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Urriak Uruk, post: 7847385, member: 7015558"] If you read the reactions to the UA in that post, people seem pretty happy with the additions. They're inclusion also doesn't turn 5E into "5.5E." I'm not even sure what that means; that one UA doc doth not a new edition make. To me, it's one of three things; 1. Re-released PHB, that incorporates these changes into a re-printing. I really doubt it is this because it will make people confused and talk about "Is this 5.5?" but it is also not unprecedented in game systems. Hey, Tyranny of Dragons just happened too. 2. It's a new Xanathar's Guide. This is the likeliest to me, because although what we've seen so far only points to 35 pages (not including art), this is what we've gotten [I]so far[/I]. There can be more material that they're confident it, or even more UAs down the line. And more than half of Xanathar's was tools for the DM, not the players. 3. It's a setting book. This is possible, but this material is a lot more generic and pointed to any game as opposed to a specific [I]setting's [/I]game. And I think the main point of a setting book is, well the setting and not the player options (unless the player options are specifically tailored to the setting, which these aren't really). So I'm thinking this is a Xanathar's, though it will obviously be called something else. I could very easily see it called something like Chandra's Planeswalker's Playbook (or some other person or whatever), integrating more generic rules on how to be a planeswalker and play in Magic the Gathering settings more generally. Maybe provide fluff for how the MtG planes fit within D&D's cosmology. Not really a setting book, not entirely a player's book either (you know, like Xanathar's). [/QUOTE]
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