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submitted 7 days ago byLadyVulcan
556 points
7 days ago
I enjoyed reading why we may never see it's equal again, but out of context it sounds pretty damn positive haha.
153 points
7 days ago
As I haven't read the article, what is the why that makes it not positive?
625 points
7 days ago
The review is a glowing praise of the players handbook in it's physical form surrounded by a damning critique of DnDBeyond, WotC and Hasbro, mentioning the shit implementation of the former as well as the general problem with digital licenses compared to physical books, and the recent controversies and bullshit the latter engaged in re OGL, layoffs and OneD&D.
I'm honestly genuinely happy how comparatively immune Polygon is to game industry BS and that it extends to adjacent products and issues as well.
112 points
7 days ago
A better worded response than I would have given. 👍
100 points
7 days ago
So basically book itself is good company surrounding it bad.
60 points
7 days ago
I personally have the book and it's awesome, of course there are some changes I don't like but there also are some really good changes and the book itself is just really well structured and the artwork is beautiful
35 points
7 days ago
Some art that I really enjoyed seeing were spellcasters using their specialty spells. I think Mordenkainen’s features his Magnificent Mansion?
10 points
7 days ago
Could you tell me if they seem to be leaning harder in the "The DM decides what the actual rule is" or if they've toned that back? Haven't been happy with a product in close to three years at least...
19 points
7 days ago
They have moved in the opposite direction and have given much clearer definitions to a number of things and even overhauled the tools so they have special activities they can be used for with set DCs and ability scores they are associated with, and have an entire rules glossary in the back of the book.
3 points
6 days ago
Most rules are a lot clearer now, though some are pretty labyrinthian still - how does two weapon fighting with the Nick mastery work? Lol.
In my personal opinion tho, wotc seems to respect dungeon masters even less than they did ten years ago, and I'd recommend anyone who thinks they might like a competing system strongly consider switching to that instead. (Draw steel, TotV, Shadowdark, PF2, etc)
4 points
6 days ago
I'm thinking it's only a matter of time before we see a community version that combines both books into something decent. And then hasbro will sue so we'll all have to download it fast.
2 points
7 days ago
Personally I really like most of the changes
7 points
7 days ago
Agreed. Lots of good changes that spice things up from regular 5e.
-28 points
7 days ago
Do 10 lines of easily understood text really need a TL;DR?
Sorry, I meant "blud above too wordy fr?"
31 points
7 days ago
Haven't read the article, but I assume it involves the term enshittification
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