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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7727174" data-attributes="member: 5100">I'll fully cop to being down on the Realms and extremely turned off by the apparent intent for WotC to use Realms IP to name generic books. I'm especially annoyed that they picked a stupid name, regardless of origin, for this book. I can hardly say the name "Xanathar" without feeling like an imbecile -- not a trait I want in a book. Really, they could have called it "Toejamlicker's Guide to Everything" and it would have sounded less stupid. YMMV on the actual quality of the name; it's an aesthetic thing and the actual sound bothers me.Looking at the ToC for Xanthippe's Guide, I have mixed feelings. It seems kinda short. It's about the same size as the 1E PHB, IIRC. If the type font is large, as has been the trend, then it's seriously short on content. What content is there looks a bit hit-or-miss. I like names, but think that's one of the first casualties of the Internet age. Chapter 1 looks like an extremely mixed bag, with about 50% of the subclasses even interesting enough for me to want to look at them once. Chapter 2 will either be very good or complete hackery -- 3E and 3.5E DM advice pretty much sucked -- but the random encounter tables and downtime both may have some promise. Chapter 3 is a bucket o' spells, with all that entails.What I'll probably end up doing is piecemealing the content on DDB, for character creation. I've got a PC Divine Soul (from UA), already. I really liked shadow magic in 3.5, so I'm curious about the Shadow Sorcerer. War Mage was one of the specific 3.5 classes I wanted to see implemented as a 5E Wizard subclass, so that's intriguing. I liked the Horizon Walker concept as presented in UA, but no one has shown interest in it, in my game. More spells don't suck, either. At a certain point, either I'll have picked up enough bits and pieces on DDB that the whole book makes sense or it won't. I'm pretty bummed by the news that the UA Ranger won't be made available as a whole because that and the Favored/Divine Soul were the two things I really wanted to see come to DDB with this release.</blockquote>

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