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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 6375009" data-attributes="member: 13703"><p>I haven't had a decent read through of the PHB, but 've got a few from my skimming of various sections so far:</p><p></p><p><u><strong>Pleasant Surprises</strong></u></p><p>- The artwork. On the whole I love it. I especially love the full page and half page art pieces. It also gave me a 2E feel.</p><p>- The diversity of humans presented. I'm a fairly stereotypical Anglo guy in regards to looks, but it was nice to see a variety of ethnicities shown in the books, as well as a reduction in the chainmail bikini look for women.</p><p>- The Inspirational Reading appendix. This was completely unexpected, but I love that they have included it.</p><p>- A detailed index. One thing that WotC have been horrible at in the past is indexes. In many 3.5E books there was no index at all and, if there was, it wasn't overly detailed. The 5E PHB index has a very small font, but I can accept that as they did so to fit as many entries in the appendix as possible. I love it.</p><p>- The background section, with a heap of tables with personality traits, bonds, flaws and ideals. Finally they've put some effort into showing players how to add a little more depth to their characters.</p><p>- Spell referencing. I like that spells no longer reference each other. It was horrible when you spent 30 seconds looking up a spell, only to find that it referred you to another spell. Occasionally that second spell would refer you to a third one!</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Disappointments</u></strong></p><p>- The Halfling art. Many others have said it, but I just don't like the bobble-headed, tiny feet depiction of the Halflings in the PHB. It just doesn't look right.</p><p>- Drizz't. I love the character and have read most of the books in the series, but he is an atypical character. So to use him as the artwork for an example of elves is just wrong.</p><p>- Spell formatting. I much preferred the formatting of the spells in the 3.5E PHB, especially the summary tables that gave you a quick 5-6 word description of what the spell did. It made picking spells a lot easier when you didn't know from memory what each of them did (which was often for me as a DM).</p><p>- Artwork for the weapons. I love that they showed a number of different weapons on the equipment page. However they completely missed an opportunity to make use of those illustrations by labelling exactly what they were pictures of!</p><p></p><p>I'm sure I'll have more once I've had a good read.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 6375009, member: 13703"] I haven't had a decent read through of the PHB, but 've got a few from my skimming of various sections so far: [U][B]Pleasant Surprises[/B][/U] - The artwork. On the whole I love it. I especially love the full page and half page art pieces. It also gave me a 2E feel. - The diversity of humans presented. I'm a fairly stereotypical Anglo guy in regards to looks, but it was nice to see a variety of ethnicities shown in the books, as well as a reduction in the chainmail bikini look for women. - The Inspirational Reading appendix. This was completely unexpected, but I love that they have included it. - A detailed index. One thing that WotC have been horrible at in the past is indexes. In many 3.5E books there was no index at all and, if there was, it wasn't overly detailed. The 5E PHB index has a very small font, but I can accept that as they did so to fit as many entries in the appendix as possible. I love it. - The background section, with a heap of tables with personality traits, bonds, flaws and ideals. Finally they've put some effort into showing players how to add a little more depth to their characters. - Spell referencing. I like that spells no longer reference each other. It was horrible when you spent 30 seconds looking up a spell, only to find that it referred you to another spell. Occasionally that second spell would refer you to a third one! [B][U]Disappointments[/U][/B] - The Halfling art. Many others have said it, but I just don't like the bobble-headed, tiny feet depiction of the Halflings in the PHB. It just doesn't look right. - Drizz't. I love the character and have read most of the books in the series, but he is an atypical character. So to use him as the artwork for an example of elves is just wrong. - Spell formatting. I much preferred the formatting of the spells in the 3.5E PHB, especially the summary tables that gave you a quick 5-6 word description of what the spell did. It made picking spells a lot easier when you didn't know from memory what each of them did (which was often for me as a DM). - Artwork for the weapons. I love that they showed a number of different weapons on the equipment page. However they completely missed an opportunity to make use of those illustrations by labelling exactly what they were pictures of! I'm sure I'll have more once I've had a good read. [/QUOTE]
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