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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boffo01" data-source="post: 9469187" data-attributes="member: 7047393">Speaking as someone who has just recently come back to TTRPGs as a kind of 50-something mid-life crisis after 30 years away from it, I'm really impressed with the 2024 PHB. I haven't read a Players Handbook since 2nd Ed, and the accessibility and smoothness of onboarding in this is terrific. The art isn't really to my taste (bit too slick for my liking - it was DCC's aesthetic that got me back into it all, so that's where I am), but there's plenty of it, and the whole thing is presented in a way that makes sense, slowly adding complexity with every chapter. And yeah, those play examples are brilliant.On the art, it was funny to see all the moaning about it in advance, somehow trying to frame it as a "woke", cosy game now, but all the danger, action and monsters are still there in the art as well. It's just that sometimes in the art people smile, almost like they're enjoying themselves. Nuts, I know. I also wonder what those guys must've made of the Tom Wham art in the AD&D manuals...</blockquote>