My Thoughts on the final edition

As for the system itself, setting up an adventure and building a character has never been this easy—at least, not in Dungeons & Dragons. The races feel a little more varied this time around, featuring new sub-race options that give you more control over your character’s attitude and build. I didn’t feel like any race was unduly pidgeonholed into one class or another, and the features each race can get work for a broad variety of different characters. They even found a way to balance out the Drow in a way that makes sense to a new player.

Classes are deeper now, with more meaningful customization options and a more modest progression. Multiclassing is still available, but it seems like the development team has found a way to balance the overpowered multiclassing opportunities of D&D 3.5 while avoiding the convoluted mess that was multiclassing in 4th Edition. In most cases, you’ll want to stick to your starting class, but there are some interesting multiclass builds that I certainly want to try out.

My favorite addition to the character creation process is the new Background system. This randomly-generated feature nets your character a couple of skill proficiencies, some gear and a Background Feature that aids you in your exlpoits in the story.