Review Details

D&D 5E RPG: Player's Handbook (Hardcover)

Product Review (submitted on October 4, 2015):

Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition is a wonderful revamping of the classic rpg. WoTC did a fantastic job of creating an edition that is easy to learn, streamlined, variety, and a focus on story.

Character creation is diverse with lots of options. Races now have sub-races, you can choose to be a hill dwarf or mountain dwarf. Classes have have sub-classes that can be learned at later levels. As an example, fighters can become battle mages.

And now characters have backgrounds. Cool backstories that give you some unique skills and items. Your cleric could have been a street urchin or your ranger could have been a former soldier. Lots of fun characters to be created.

Skills and combat have been streamlined. They've implemented advantage / disadvantage which is used when you are good and or bad at skills or combat.

My favorite part is that they've taken out the goal of min/maxing compared to previous versions or other fantasy RPGs. Being any class and race is a good idea. None are a waste of creating and all can be played well.

My only complaint is that the index is horrendous. The index references other parts of the index, instead of the book. Another small complaint is character creation has some book flipping, which can be frustrating.

If you've grown tired of other RPGs or want to get back into D&D, this is the edition to do it in.