Eldritch Knights sacrifice some fighting ability for a modicum of spellcasting power.Īt the extremes, this plethora of options blend in to one another. Battle Masters represent tacticians and field officers. Classic warrior fans can play a Champion. The Fighter class, for instance, divides into three archetypes. There are twelve classes now, each with several archetypes. One thing that impresses is the way in which the game has become less about specialists, more about letting players create the characters they want. So things that stand out to me as big changes might not seem so huge to more dedicated players. You have to remember that I haven't played the game since 2nd edition. Mostly, what we want are rules and mostly, that's what we get. It's nice to know that D&D has moved into the modern age while preserving the things that made it special in the past.Īlongside those sentiments there are other short, but useful, chapters on role-playing and personification. "Don't be confined to binary notions of sex and gender," it says. This is the first D&D supplement I can remember that encourages players to use the game to explore diversity. Male Half-orc paladins stand shoulder to shoulder with scholarly female wizards. The art is plentiful, good quality and diverse in its representation of race, class and gender. The pages are thin but printed with a nice fake-age background. It was like the sound of the lock falling away from my teenage memories.īack then, no-one ever read the Player's Handbook from cover to cover, and I doubt anyone does now. So I ignored the cover and opened the book to a loud crack as the spine flexed for the first time. After being so excited by the Starter Set, I couldn't wait to get into this. It's rare that the first thing to strike you about a book is a noise.
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