The VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
This is so much better than the standard cover! If I can't snag this PHB I'll wait for 6e.
I wasn't planning on buying the PHB at release, but it looks like wotc found a way into my wallet, the sneaky kobolds.
I like that it puts the adventurers front and center, unlike the 5e PHB with its random giant taking up most of the cover.
But that's pretty much the only thing I like about it, the colors and composition are way too busy. And the artistic quality really isn't quite what I'd expect from the...
In my experience, the people whom the champion fighter was made for usually end up trying to play a wizard instead, with poor results for both themselves and the rest of the table.
Who else would it have been? Either the plan was Cock's idea or he approved of it. He'd be a truly incompetent big boss if he let someone else move forward with a major policy change like that without his support.
The fact they're still talking about them strongly suggests wotc still plans to release the previous edition SRDs. If the intent was to sweep them under the rug then the SRDs would never be mentioned again.
And then they come back 3 months later and demand that you create an account with them if you want to continue to have access to the product you "bought".
For most spells, I don't think it matters if the players know about them in advance, but some spells can be build defining, and learning about a spell 3 levels after you made build choices that could have synergized with the new spell can be frustrating.
But seriously, 5000 spells?
That's a non-issue. It should be trivial to check that the AI modified quotes have the same meaning as the originals before publishing them. It's a clever way to protect your sources, something I'm sure we'll see done a lot in the coming years!
He never retracted anything though, even after wotc employees told him they definitely read the surveys, he maintained that his source told him that nobody read the surveys and that he had no explanation for why his source said something completely different than what former wotc employees were...
I'll be extremely surprised if the VTT doesn't have microtransactions, anything else would be leaving money on the table, and Hasbro hates that.
The D&D microtransactions were probably removed because they were competing with macrotransactions, and that's not good business.