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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6842419" data-attributes="member: 12731">This is what I think.When you get a body of options in your lap (like the PHB of any edition) you do a careful analysis of what's there and what you want.(Careful being a relative term; yes, I know some people are much less minmaxian than others)And for your second and perhaps third character, you revisit that body of options. But to a lesser degree. Each of us gets a set of notions which get hard to change. Simply put, when you find a groove, you stick to it.If you then get a new body of options (say, a splatbook), it's all fresh. You eagerly (again, relatively speaking) read through the new options, comparing, turning them inside out, the works.But you tend to not do that with all the options back in the first body of options that you perhaps carelessly threw aside. Or simply never got to checking out because all the other cool stuff.TL; DR: the fact that the PHB contains more options than ever doesn't mean 1) our capacity to absorb options has increased, or 2) our want for ever-fresh new content will subsideIn other words, for a segment of the customer base, cramming the PHB so chock-full of options is a bit of waste. Since you see the good stuff and the bad stuff (which can differ from gamer to gamer) but not all the stuff. Had they held back some of it, they could have had ready to go material for at least one crunchy delight to have been released by now.Your examples, Eldritch Knight and the Arcane Trickster, are interesting in another way. The decision to include these two subclasses in the PHB is probably behind much of why the edition is accused of being too magical. For the first time, playing a fighter and rogue with actual spells is core. This would neatly have been avoided if these two were held back.(I do realize that Wotc was scared shitless 5E would be another flop so I'm not really unsure why this particular edition got such a options-rich PHB)</blockquote>

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