Does anybody else break 5e up into Phases or Sections?

As I see it, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything concludes Phase 3, and Candlekeep will begin Phase 4.

In general, the pattern is "Major Expansions end each phase" with the exception of the first phase that ended with the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.

Yep I do the same.

Phase 1: PHB release and start of 5e. 

Phase 2: Xanathar's and the 'Golden Age' where things were fleshed out but the system still had that new feel.

Phase 3: Release of Tasha's which attempts to fix some of the cracks which were starting to show, but also starts throwing out inconsistencies and bloat. It's also made 5e's long term design direction clear, which may end up causing players to drop the system.

I think of Tasha's as actually the new start.  I look at it as the equivalent of the 3.5 PHB, the 4e Essentials line, etc.  The start of the halfway point with revised rules. 

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I think of Tasha's as actually the new start.  I look at it as the equivalent of the 3.5 PHB, the 4e Essentials line, etc.  The start of the halfway point with revised rules. 

 I actually wonder if that was the intent. A way to do a soft rest, or to see if they need a 5.5.

I've been thinking about the SCAG a lot and both the SCAG and TCE seem to be the two "worst" books because they give the most to AL and the least to 2nd Party Producers (Homebrew DM's)... don't get me wrong, they're still in my top 10 D&D Books of 5e, edging out Wildmount.

Comrad_Jenkins I'm actually really curious about that, because I think most of us expected TCE to be a different supplement than it turned out to be. I think it was their way of feeding a fairly famished market, while a fit market expected it to be for them.

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I think of Tasha's as actually the new start.  I look at it as the equivalent of the 3.5 PHB, the 4e Essentials line, etc.  The start of the halfway point with revised rules. 

 I actually wonder if that was the intent. A way to do a soft rest, or to see if they need a 5.5.

I've been thinking about the SCAG a lot and both the SCAG and TCE seem to be the two "worst" books because they give the most to AL and the least to 2nd Party Producers (Homebrew DM's)... don't get me wrong, they're still in my top 10 D&D Books of 5e, edging out Wildmount.

Comrad_Jenkins I'm actually really curious about that, because I think most of us expected TCE to be a different supplement than it turned out to be. I think it was their way of feeding a fairly famished market, while a fit market expected it to be for them.

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Yep I do the same.

Phase 1: PHB release and start of 5e. 

Phase 2: Xanathar's and the 'Golden Age' where things were fleshed out but the system still had that new feel.

Phase 3: Release of Tasha's which attempts to fix some of the cracks which were starting to show, but also starts throwing out inconsistencies and bloat. It's also made 5e's long term design direction clear, which may end up causing players to drop the system.

 This makes sense. Hopefully the model of just adding more subclasses is changed to make things more interesting. 

I hope they learned in XGE not to put race based feats in the subclass book.

I love the feats in TCE.

Learned not to...?

The race based feats seem pretty popular, I thought?

I want more racial feats honestly.

I want more too, but I'd like them for more than just the core races.

I'd LOVE Aasimar feats (among others), but feats of that variety belong in a race book (like VGM, and MTF).