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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6936245" data-attributes="member: 996">There's no need to resort to a statement like that to defend 5e, nor do I feel any need to go into what would be a very unfair (to 5e) comparison.&nbsp; 5e doesn't release material at the same pace as the more player-option-prolific editions did, it's much slower (and for good reasons that are proving out quite convincingly, IMHO).&nbsp; It's over 2 years since the PH dropped, but in terms of number of supplements or sheer quantity of player-option crunch, it's only months into it's run by the standards of a 3e or 4e, let alone a PF.&nbsp; And, yes, it is presenting more options by those standards, and, as a 'big tent' edition, it /needs/ to.&nbsp; It needs to not just present more options than any one edition did a few months in, it needs to present a range of options that embraces all of them combined.&nbsp; It's still working towards presenting every possibility that all past PH1s collectively delivered.&nbsp; It has a &quot;long way to go&quot; - in years, only because of the (on balance, desirable) slow pace of release - to get there.&nbsp; But there's no reason to think it can't get there.&nbsp; Even though there are naysayers who seem to want very much for it to fail in that regard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6936245, member: 996"] There's no need to resort to a statement like that to defend 5e, nor do I feel any need to go into what would be a very unfair (to 5e) comparison. 5e doesn't release material at the same pace as the more player-option-prolific editions did, it's much slower (and for good reasons that are proving out quite convincingly, IMHO). It's over 2 years since the PH dropped, but in terms of number of supplements or sheer quantity of player-option crunch, it's only months into it's run by the standards of a 3e or 4e, let alone a PF. And, yes, it is presenting more options by those standards, and, as a 'big tent' edition, it /needs/ to. It needs to not just present more options than any one edition did a few months in, it needs to present a range of options that embraces all of them combined. It's still working towards presenting every possibility that all past PH1s collectively delivered. It has a "long way to go" - in years, only because of the (on balance, desirable) slow pace of release - to get there. But there's no reason to think it can't get there. Even though there are naysayers who seem to want very much for it to fail in that regard. [/QUOTE]

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