Player's Handbook

They had huge success initially.

And Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, when it finally released the Player's Handbook and the Dungeon Master's Guide so you could actually play that version of the game, a lot of players still wanted to stay with basic Dungeons and Dragons, which was a bit of a simpler game system, but they wanted to go beyond level three and stuff like that.

And so TSR was sort of forced in this idea of, well, we need to...

Give the audience what they want, but we're not really doing that well with it right now.

I remember making a joke one time in a campaign where he was like, yeah, he was like, there's four official source books for D&D.

There's the Player's Handbook, the DMG, the Monster Manual, and Jeremy Crawford's Twitter account.

And like, yeah, that kind of became a thing for a while where people would be like, well, Jeremy Crawford's out on Twitter.

And like, you know, it became a point of contention We'll see.

And this was the big selling point for me.

Because in the Player's Handbook, we only had...

It was Abjurer and maybe it was Conjurer.

I don't remember.

Illusionist was one of them.

But we only got four of the eight wizard schools for subclasses in the Player's Handbook.

This book is the other four.

So Transmuter, Necromancer, that kind of shit.

...

I specifically only balance my items and character classes against things in the Player's Handbook and DMG and, uh, Xanathar's Guide.

Right.

Um-

Uh, but the way that they...

A- and, and honestly, the, the design philosophy of the game is really great.

It's really fun, but there's one thing I take issue with in their player's handbook, which is that like...

Or in their, in their start guide, which is they phrase the way the DM should disregard the rules as a like, "Be cruel to your players on purpose and, and-

And then...

There's a lot of stuff about primordials, and it kind of brings us back to where we started tonight, where fourth edition deliberately doesn't print his name in the player's handbook or the monster manual because mortals aren't supposed to know he exists.

So even the ones who do only know they know him, they call him by the chain.

God.

Fifth edition has him.

The Player's Handbook, Dun Master's Guide, Mordekainen's Tome of Foes.

He shows up there.

He's kind of acknowledged, but never really reexamined.