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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8805529" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I am a big 5e fan, and I absolutely see the point of an update to 5th edition. Over the course of the edition WotC has changed how they approach races and backgrounds, as well as certain subclasses, and now has a bunch of optional core class features in Tasha's that effectively require cross-referencing this second book, alongside the PHB, just to know how your core class works. They have also changed their approach to monster design. It's certainly reasonable that, at the ten year mark of the edition, they should update the PHB and Monster Manual to consolidate information and bring the core books in line with the changes they've already made. The edition currently feels unsettled, it would be nice to see it recodified.What I'm not enthusiastic about is the slew of additional semi-random and mostly aimless changes that they seem to be at least considering. Yes I appreciate that this is the opportunity to change things that they won't effectively get another shot at changing for another 5 or 10 years, but that doesn't mean those things actually need changing for change's sake.See that's what I assumed the goal would be, and it's a goal I support. Unfortunately I think between dropping everyone into feats at first level and consolidating spell lists (but then making you scour the lists for particular spell schools) raises the barriers to entry more than any lowering they've featured so far. At least they seem to have (possibly) dropped the scheme to make critical hits much more complicated while also making them far less important.</blockquote>

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