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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6401060" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>The thing is, you're missing the Starter Set. It's somewhat questionable to complain about a lack of published material if you're going to casually discount 25% of the available products!</p><p></p><p>It's probably also worth noting that "Hoard of the Dragon Queen" is a pretty big adventure - half an Adventure Path, in fact. So it's closer to "Sunless Citadel" and "Forge of Fury" (and maybe "Speaker in Dreams") put together than to the first of these alone. It may still only count as one... but it's a <em>big</em> one.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Starter Set is well worth picking up for the adventure alone, especially for a group that finds itself short on adventure material. (And it's currently a bit over $15 on Amazon US, so an even better deal.)</p><p></p><p>Now, the one thing I think 5e <em>does</em> feel the lack of is support from Dungeon. That's the thing that 3e and 4e had that 5e does not. (Those editions also had at least some third-party support via the OGL and/or GSL... but so does 5e.) I'm afraid there's no real answer to that - WotC just don't have the team to be putting together a monthly magazine right now, and producing that volume of adventure material in-house would be even more challenging (and, actually, the first 3e and 4e issues were mostly done in-house, because that's where they could find designers familiar with the rules). I think, though, that that would probably be true if they had delayed the release of the game by 6, 12, or 24 months - I suspect that's just the way things are now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6401060, member: 22424"] The thing is, you're missing the Starter Set. It's somewhat questionable to complain about a lack of published material if you're going to casually discount 25% of the available products! It's probably also worth noting that "Hoard of the Dragon Queen" is a pretty big adventure - half an Adventure Path, in fact. So it's closer to "Sunless Citadel" and "Forge of Fury" (and maybe "Speaker in Dreams") put together than to the first of these alone. It may still only count as one... but it's a [i]big[/i] one. The Starter Set is well worth picking up for the adventure alone, especially for a group that finds itself short on adventure material. (And it's currently a bit over $15 on Amazon US, so an even better deal.) Now, the one thing I think 5e [i]does[/i] feel the lack of is support from Dungeon. That's the thing that 3e and 4e had that 5e does not. (Those editions also had at least some third-party support via the OGL and/or GSL... but so does 5e.) I'm afraid there's no real answer to that - WotC just don't have the team to be putting together a monthly magazine right now, and producing that volume of adventure material in-house would be even more challenging (and, actually, the first 3e and 4e issues were mostly done in-house, because that's where they could find designers familiar with the rules). I think, though, that that would probably be true if they had delayed the release of the game by 6, 12, or 24 months - I suspect that's just the way things are now. [/QUOTE]
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