Hmm... thanks for the link. I have no idea who Matt Colville is supposed to be, not even after reading his vanity essay (some... dude who did rule Faqs for Dune CCG? Um... okay?), and it does seem like that self aggrandizing writing style of his vanity essay is in the book, but then I am a fan of Battlelords of the 23rd century, so I can hardly complain.
I am again reminded that 5e appears to be a bland, half baked pablum of a D&D edition. Sure, its better than 4e, but then so is testicular cancer, so...low bar and all. I'm reminded of the nuisance the GM of my last game had when the winged tiefling finally started flying. WHere, exactly, are the rules (or for that matter humble advice) for flying? He had to... ahem... wing it. Hell, I see now there is a thread up on how 'weak' and mismanaged the Crafting rules are, and I'm starting to wonder what, exactly, is IN the DMG
Never mind that the organization of this edition is complete balls. Just... balls. Someone tell me exactly what was gained, just for example, by sticking the potions into the miscellanious magic items? Or why there are no subsections at all in the magic items chapter? Just one little example. Its not like someone had to think really hard about what subsections to use/create or anything. What was gained by that choice?
Or hey, why not give skills a chapter? And why are the effects of attributes so far removed (a hundred pages or more) from the part of the book where you actually generate said attributes?
I can go on, and on, and on, and on...
But really: Its not like they needed to hire a layout guy to figure all this out. All they had to do was ape the layout used in every single other edition (... er... that I'm familiar with, at least. Going back to AD&D, anyway....).
Right. So, I'll leave off any final decisions to let the thread mature (if it matures...), but I'll probably get this. My first 5e character tried building a monk's temple at level 1, and my current character (different group) is halfway through upgrading/building a tavern in Waterdeep (that one is the GM's fault... I am blameless there!), so, as I said: Its sorta my jam. And my Ex has my 3e book on the same topic (which was, to be fair, somewhat underwhelming...).