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<blockquote data-quote="thethain" data-source="post: 7086389" data-attributes="member: 6874561"><p>From current perspective, it appears that they are entwining their books to be crunch+fluff. SCAG, EE, Volo. All had a smattering of crunch and a lot of fluff. They want to sell stories, and have some crunchy bits thrown in to assist in that story.</p><p></p><p>That said the blitz of Unearthed Arcana that has been going on for months at this point does indicate that they are at least thinking about releasing some more crunchy materials. Although the fact rune magic was released as Unearthed Arcana on 10/5/2015 and SKT implemented it 11/6/2016 means there may be a bit of lead time until we see these come to a printed source near you.</p><p></p><p>I think if they release a full blown PHB II style book, it basically would most likely necessitate invalidating the PHB+1 rule. For example if they released the Mystic as is, its spell list is 3 Wizards spells, which are contained in the PHB. If it was a full blown book featuring new spells, feats, archetypes, and classes. Then using any source other than PHB+PHB2 would be severely hamstringing the character. Volo's already highlighted this in the fact that many of the options from SCAG are pretty powerful or at the least distinctive. Cutting Tabaxi tricksters off from booming blade is rather arbitrary. </p><p></p><p>That said.. I don't think they are going to release a PHB II. I think they will release a Greyhawk setting book(eventually) which adds a handful of archetypes and variant races. And maybe a new Underdark adventure that allows some Psionic player options. I hope I am wrong tho, as I love crunching numbers on characters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thethain, post: 7086389, member: 6874561"] From current perspective, it appears that they are entwining their books to be crunch+fluff. SCAG, EE, Volo. All had a smattering of crunch and a lot of fluff. They want to sell stories, and have some crunchy bits thrown in to assist in that story. That said the blitz of Unearthed Arcana that has been going on for months at this point does indicate that they are at least thinking about releasing some more crunchy materials. Although the fact rune magic was released as Unearthed Arcana on 10/5/2015 and SKT implemented it 11/6/2016 means there may be a bit of lead time until we see these come to a printed source near you. I think if they release a full blown PHB II style book, it basically would most likely necessitate invalidating the PHB+1 rule. For example if they released the Mystic as is, its spell list is 3 Wizards spells, which are contained in the PHB. If it was a full blown book featuring new spells, feats, archetypes, and classes. Then using any source other than PHB+PHB2 would be severely hamstringing the character. Volo's already highlighted this in the fact that many of the options from SCAG are pretty powerful or at the least distinctive. Cutting Tabaxi tricksters off from booming blade is rather arbitrary. That said.. I don't think they are going to release a PHB II. I think they will release a Greyhawk setting book(eventually) which adds a handful of archetypes and variant races. And maybe a new Underdark adventure that allows some Psionic player options. I hope I am wrong tho, as I love crunching numbers on characters. [/QUOTE]
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