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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7727867" data-attributes="member: 1465">This is definitely common to all 5e books. Immediately upon picking up the PHB I felt it was too &quot;light&quot;.After playing the game tho, I changed my mind. Compared to the 3e PHB, the 5e PHB has indeed a lot less information (just compare the size of the font being used), but the truth is that 3e was a much heavier system that required a lot more information. Essentially the 5e PHB creates a game of the same &quot;magnitude&quot; of the 3e PHB. The same is mostly true also for the MM and DMG, having a number of options reasonably comparable to the 3e books.On the other hand, it's a bit different case for supplements. SCAG is difficult to address since it has a lot of fluff (anyway I don't have it, so I can't say much about it). But if you compare XGE with a typical 3e supplement of the same size, you'll see that indeed it ends up having less character options. The amount of crunch is more similar to early 3.0 supplements like &quot;Tome &amp; Blood&quot;, which had IIRC a hundred pages only or so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7727867, member: 1465"] This is definitely common to all 5e books. Immediately upon picking up the PHB I felt it was too "light". After playing the game tho, I changed my mind. Compared to the 3e PHB, the 5e PHB has indeed a lot less information (just compare the size of the font being used), but the truth is that 3e was a much heavier system that required a lot more information. Essentially the 5e PHB creates a game of the same "magnitude" of the 3e PHB. The same is mostly true also for the MM and DMG, having a number of options reasonably comparable to the 3e books. On the other hand, it's a bit different case for supplements. SCAG is difficult to address since it has a lot of fluff (anyway I don't have it, so I can't say much about it). But if you compare XGE with a typical 3e supplement of the same size, you'll see that indeed it ends up having less character options. The amount of crunch is more similar to early 3.0 supplements like "Tome & Blood", which had IIRC a hundred pages only or so. [/QUOTE]

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