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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7993041" data-attributes="member: 6677017">An anniversary edition. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. They could take a page from White Wolf with their old World of Darkness Anniversary editions.I could see a PHB with the most popular races, classes, and subclasses from other books included. (I can already feel the tension over whether Artificer is going to make the APHB or not.) If we have a Psion by then, it would likely make it in. This would give them a chance to improve the genasi...that race needs work. They would also likely make a few new subclasses or races that aren't in other books just for something new. As far as variant class features, I'm not sure if that would work best in the PHB or an ADMG.In fact, although and anniversary edition PHB is a really good idea with basically zero drawbacks, I'm not sure if the DMG and MM would fare as well. The DMG would need to include more than some extra magic items to be worth it. It could always gather together stuff like the vehicle and nautical rules, and maybe they could complete some rules that they wanted to do but didn't make it in in 2014. Monsters as characters, mass combat, that sort of thing. Variant class features here or not, they could also put in a lot of new variant rules options that haven't even been published yet. That would actually be a valuable bit (depending on the quality, of course).The MM would be tough. I'm not sure of a good way to do that. They can't change the stats of the monsters, although they could make additional stat blocks for elite versions of things in the MM. They could also take the opportunity to put in more monsters that didn't make the cut for the first one (like the planar exemplar races archons, guardinals, eladrin, and rilmani). If they wanted to give it similar treatment to the PHB and DMG, they'd need to actually come up with something new though, and I'm not sure what it would be. People have already done on DMsGuild the kind of thing that could be done here. I suppose they don't have to do exactly the same thing as with the PHB and DMG (nor do the PHB and DMG really need to do the same thing as each other for that matter). Each book just needs to be an enticing expanded version compatible with the with 2014 version of itself.But yeah, it seems likes a very likely thing to do.(Although, one thing that irritates me about 5e is that they "like to keep up guessing". This makes it less likely that we will get ideas that we come up with. Sometimes they should just give us exactly what we want and expect, rather than always trying to be clever and do something different.)</blockquote>

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