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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9406363" data-attributes="member: 93670">No. Those are all problems where the root cause is found in the 2014 phb.  The PCs themselves were designed for an expected adventuring day that shares no resemblance to how people actually play or anything but video games where that level of starting gear filler can be designed and tested.  One could say that the mm is where they fix the expectation of no feats no magic items by adjusting the math, but that too stems from the phb.  Different classes gain significantly different benefits from magic items and again it's the core phb rules(PCs themselves who need to be designed so that monster math is capable of scaling in ways that makes good matter .The mm & dmg have needs if their own that they need to fill.  Those needs are undercut and made secondary, at best, if the two books need to serve as some kind of day zero <a href="https://youtu.be/Z-bDGYv4rtc?si=a7capZb1Kkh4dZ1J" target="_blank">thebesda</a> style paid dlc hotfix to the phb before even getting to serving the needs of those two books .</blockquote>