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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7764920" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>5th Edition setting books, including the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, The Wayfarer's Guide to Eberron, and the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica are about setting the overall parameters of a setting and giving you the big picture in terms of tone, genre, and feel. They also support the settings mechanically with rules for PCs and extra rules to help maintain the setting. They are not about minute setting detail that often never sees the tabletop and is not really necessary to using the setting. This approach is most certainly different than past approaches, but it seems to be working well for WotC and the (sometimes silent) majority of D&D fans.</p><p></p><p>I get you though, as not only do I play D&D, but a huge part of the hobby for me is reading and immersing myself in the various settings. I've never run a Dark Sun campaign, but I have all of the books and I loved reading through them and just soaking in the details, story, and flavor of the setting. Had I actually run a campaign, I wouldn't have used most of that detail at the table, but I loved having it.</p><p></p><p>What we need is Wotc to rejigger the DMsGuild in such a way to encourage quality authors to give us that kind of content that doesn't serve the needs of the mainstream game, but some of us want none-the-less. I would gladly pay $30 for a well-written ebook on the DMsGuild that gave us a 5E version of the 3E Forgotten Realms Setting book, for any and all of the official D&D settings! With POD printing, we could even get this kind of thing for our bookshelves!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 7764920, member: 18182"] 5th Edition setting books, including the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, The Wayfarer's Guide to Eberron, and the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica are about setting the overall parameters of a setting and giving you the big picture in terms of tone, genre, and feel. They also support the settings mechanically with rules for PCs and extra rules to help maintain the setting. They are not about minute setting detail that often never sees the tabletop and is not really necessary to using the setting. This approach is most certainly different than past approaches, but it seems to be working well for WotC and the (sometimes silent) majority of D&D fans. I get you though, as not only do I play D&D, but a huge part of the hobby for me is reading and immersing myself in the various settings. I've never run a Dark Sun campaign, but I have all of the books and I loved reading through them and just soaking in the details, story, and flavor of the setting. Had I actually run a campaign, I wouldn't have used most of that detail at the table, but I loved having it. What we need is Wotc to rejigger the DMsGuild in such a way to encourage quality authors to give us that kind of content that doesn't serve the needs of the mainstream game, but some of us want none-the-less. I would gladly pay $30 for a well-written ebook on the DMsGuild that gave us a 5E version of the 3E Forgotten Realms Setting book, for any and all of the official D&D settings! With POD printing, we could even get this kind of thing for our bookshelves! [/QUOTE]
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